IBM has launched an effort to extend Web 2.0 to the corporate world by unveiling team collaboration, social computing and Web mashup development tools.
The new Quickr 8, Lotus Connections and Info 2.0 products are part of IBM’s new “Web 2.0 Goes to Work” initiative, which aims to expand business use of popular consumer technologies like blogs, wikis and social networks, said Rod Smith, vice-president of emerging technologies.
Web 2.0 technology can help workers more easily brainstorm and collaborate with one another and with corporate partners and customers, explained Smith.
The Quickr 8 team collaboration tool helps companies use blogs, wikis and team space templates to share business documents and access libraries through plug-ins, IBM said.
The Lotus Connections social networking tool set includes Web 2.0 components like bookmarking, IBM said. It described Info 2.0 as a suite of tools for customizing and linking Web and corporate data into mashups.