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Where are open source learning applications?

Tony Karrer

If you look at the slow creep up the application stack of open-source solutions (OS, app server, database, CRM), then its easy to see the pattern. Having used surveymonkey, blogger, pbwiki and other tools quite a bit - it's even better than open source and even less expensive (open source you need time/dollars to get it up and going).

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We Need a Wiki in a Wiki

eLearning Blender

Our server farm is stretched too thin and we are preparing for an infrastructure upgrade so it wouldn't be a good time to install anything additional to any of our servers. There are quite a few hosted solutions that specialize in Media Wiki and I have also been referred to PBWiki and Project Forum.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

We had no trouble with our PBWiki. Although SaaS vendors invariably emphasize the resources they devote to security, many customers remain uncomfortable with their employee and customer data flying over the Internet, not to mention potentially residing on the same data-center server as their rivals'. Look at security.

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Wikis for Improving Productivity

Experiencing eLearning

I’m liveblogging the webinar Growing in a Down Market with PBwiki. Then used spreadsheet on a central server, but people working from home couldn’t access it. Security levels of PBwiki are sufficient for the financial industry. A: Yes, PBwiki has options for individual users to set preferences for notifications.

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Both sides now

Jay Cross

And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend–Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment.

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