During the summit Atlassian announced their Charlies awards.

SunSpace won the The “Not just another wiki” Award: Best use of Confluence.

Thanks to Atlassian and big cudos to the SunSpace team !

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Date: 12. February 2009 Time: 9am – 10am Pacific Time Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/904570408  

We now have over 20’000 registered users (which is close to 2/3 of all employees) and around 2’500 and 3’000 active users per day.

We had to tune our platform quite a bit to handle this load and I guess we now have one of [...]]]> SunSpace is in production for 100 days and we experienced dramatic growth

We now have over 20’000 registered users (which is close to 2/3 of all employees) and around 2’500 and 3’000 active users per day.

We had to tune our platform quite a bit to handle this load and I guess we now have one of the best tuned Confluence installation on a Sun infrastructure.

There is a lot of interest internally and externally to leverage/implement a similar value driven community framework.

Also we got quite some requests for screenshots of the current system ..

so here they are

Then check this out:

http://kapustar.punkt.at/labs/knowledgelounge.org/?q=Semantic%20Web

This is an experimental mashup service from the Semantic Web Company (Credit goes to Rene Kapusta)

What does it do ?

This prototype shows how to use semantic based term extraction and the Amazon API to search for relevant books for a [...]]]> Do you want to see the power of Semantic Web mashup services ?

Then check this out:

http://kapustar.punkt.at/labs/knowledgelounge.org/?q=Semantic%20Web

This is an experimental mashup service from the Semantic Web Company (Credit goes to Rene Kapusta)

What does it do ?

This prototype shows how to use semantic based term extraction and the Amazon API to search for relevant books for a specific topic.

How it works

1. The search input is send to wikipedia.org
2. The respective wikipedia page is sent to the Open Calais service to extract the terms
3. The extracted terms are sent to google, and get enriched by related terms using the google labs service “google suggest“.
4. and last but not least the terms are sent to the Amazon API and the relevant books from Amazon are displayed

Pretty cool !

[Shel Israel, editor of Global Neighbourhoods. Photo from his blog.]

Excerpt summary:

When I first saw CE 2.0, I was pretty certain that the work of this 25-year veteran of IT would closely resemble a Rube Goldberg drawing, filled with complexity [...]]]> Shel Israel did a follow up interview on our former CE 2.0 project .. now called SunSpace

[Shel Israel, editor of Global Neighbourhoods. Photo from his blog.]

Excerpt summary:

When I first saw CE 2.0, I was pretty certain that the work of this 25-year veteran of IT would closely resemble a Rube Goldberg drawing, filled with complexity and confusing we of a nontechnical ilk.

I was wrong. More than anything, it looked like Facebook. It looked like it would be fun to play with. It had all sorts of “consumery” features. For example, you got ranked for your contribution and the ranking was public.

Read the full interview here

Thanks Shel !

Thanks guys

Shel Israel’s summary: “As the chief architect of Sun’s Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a psychologist, and a carnival ringleader. An attempt to mesh Web 2.0 technologies with corporate communities, [...]]]> link to the video

Shel Israel’s summary:
“As the chief architect of Sun’s Community Equity 2.0 (CE2.0) project, Peter Reiser is considering the place of the individual in a social network from the perspective of a computer scientist, a sociologist, a psychologist, and a carnival ringleader. An attempt to mesh Web 2.0 technologies with corporate communities, he hopes to inject fun and serendipity into information exchange.
In one of the more exciting technologies I’ve seen, CE2.0 is equal parts Facebook, corporate intranet, and community forum. The ability to aggregate and display community participation, and to profile the individual on a community equity model is incredibly innovative”

Many thanks to Shel Israel (interviewer) and Robert Scoble (camera man)
It was a lot of fun

Great work Daniela

… and while you reading it you will find a nice reference to our CE 2.0 project …