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JumpBox for the MediaWiki Wiki System (zip)

MediaWiki is a powerful wiki engine originally developed for the Wikipedia project and now deployed on many sites around the world. This JumpBox is a self-contained, preconfigured instance of MediaWiki version 1.10.0. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: MediaWiki, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-01-30

BitNami MediaWiki Stack (exe)

MediaWiki is a wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis. MediaWiki was designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. This version...

Tags: BitNami, MediaWiki, Wiki, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-12-14

Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world's most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

YouTube, Digg, Wikipedia: Can Web 2.0 play hardball?

YouTube, Digg, Wikipedia: Can Web 2.0 play hardball?It is an abomination.Period.MediaWiki ForkJust something for other users of MediaWiki. There's a new wiki called DekiWiki which is more or less a fork of MediaWiki.

Tags: Wiki, MediaWiki, Web 2.0 Play, Wikipedia, Digg, Web 2.0, YouTube Inc., Web

Discussion threads 2006-08-03

Additional Resources

Enterprise 2.0 Conference notebook

Ironically this week has probably been my most offline in months - Sprint failed the brand new Westin Hotel in Boston disastrously with terrible or non existent wifi service. It was a real shame because Jive Software had an instance of Clearspace for the conference attendee community and there was...

Tags: Security, Notebook, Collaboration, Environment, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Wireless LANs, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential

Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry within 5 years. ZDNet's Larry Dignan had the full breakdown yesterday on Forresters bullish outlook while Dennis Howlett immediately took umbrage with...

Tags: Software, Application, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Industry, Enterprise 2.0 Tool, Self-service, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Federated ESBs come to fore as natural outcome of guerrilla SOA practices

Some IONA Technologies announcements today point up the growing practice of multiple ESBs within enterprises, often associated in a federated manner, and sometimes using ESBs tasked with specific types of integration duties. IONA is taking a "hybrid" approach to ESB offerings, with a coordinated open source and...

Tags: Open Source, Module, Iona Technologies, SOA, Integration, WSO2, WSO2 Identity Solution, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-12-10

The state of Enterprise 2.0

Industry analysts, CIOs, and business leaders around the world are continuing to try to read the industry tea leaves in 2007 when it comes to the subject of Enterprise 2.0, the increasingly popular discussion of using Web 2.0 platforms in the workplace. The primary topic of interest? Whether Enterprise...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Social Bookmarking, Enterprise 2.0, Worker, FLATNESSES, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Zipedia (xpi)

When you have no Internet, or when the Internet is so slow, wouldn't it be nice to be able to type example wikipedia://wiki/Egypt for immediate offline access to a wikipedia article? You will still need to download the wikipedia XML dump for offline use, but you will not need to...

Tags: Wikipedia, Tal Shalif, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications

Software downloads 2007-09-28

GoPenServer (exe)

The GoPenServer (Go-Open-Server) is an HTTP/FTP Server that includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, FileZilla Server, Mercury Mail, and phpMyAdmin. It also contains Web site creation software including KompoZer, GIMP, Audacity, Moodle, MediaWiki, and Fully Modded phpBB2. Version 1.1.4 complete may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Tags: Gerfuls, Scripting Languages, Web Site Development, Open Source, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Software Development

Software downloads 2007-07-20

OpenTeams does a good job taking the icky out of wiki

[[07MustangFuelLineRepair|How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line]]That's an example of what's called wiki markup. It takes the text "How to repair a Mustang's Fuel Line" and links it to another page in a wiki called "07MustangFuelLineRepair". It's not pretty (and reminiscent of the codes we used to see in...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Scrounging around Enterprise 2.0 on Boston's waterfront

ZDNet multimedia wingman Matt Conner and I are at CMP's Enterprise 2.0 conference today and tomorrow looking for interesting video opportunities.  So far, the lineup is shaping up pretty nicely.  Today, I interviewed Cisco's senior veep of emerging technologies Marthin De Beer  about the company's claims to have revolutionized the...

Tags: Web technology, Telephony, Office 2.0, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Open source and business pleasure vs. business pain

A European PR firm was pitching my company for business last week and putting out a few ideas on how to generate demand in different countries across Europe. One of the ideas that they presented was a "business pain barometer" to indicate how much pain companies might be feeling using...

Tags: Business Models, Enterprise Software, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-05-23

Using Google to replace Sharepoint, LimitNone's gShare bridges MS-Office/Google Apps divide

Over the last couple of weeks, I have spent a lot of my time writing about Google Apps as though it could be a replacement for Microsoft Office. I still believe that for many companies and users, it either is, will be, or can be such a replacement. There are...

Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Virtual Appliances

I believe virtualization will have a big impact on regular computer users as well as how companies will do their computing. Lately, Ive been thinking quite a bit about virtual appliances. What got me going was the beta 2 release of...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Servers, virtual appliance

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Wales riding the cost train toward zero

Jimmy Wales is at it again.Through his for-profit company, Wikia, the founder of Wikipedia has launched a free hosting service called OpenServing. "Its based on Wiki software and can be sponsored," he said. "The first package were offering is a modified version of MediaWiki, which we bought. We intend to...

Tags: management, business models, publishing, General, mass market, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Lieberman redux and raising your Web presence: You get the hosting you pay for

Last month, I posted a blog regarding an accusation coming out of Senator Joe Lieberman's camp that his campaign's Web site had been hobbled by supporters of his competitor in the then upcoming Congressional election Ned Lamont. Lamont went on to win the bitterly fought Democratic primary, but not before...

Tags: Lieberman, Web, Lieberman Software Corp

Blog posts 2006-09-06

Microsoft puts Office preview online

Microsoft puts Office preview onlineThey have the link wrong. They gave the one for the old version calledMicrosoft Office. That version is now obsolete. The new version of Microsoft Office is now called OpenOffice, and is available at: http://www.openoffice.org/ The new version does not have all of the vulnerabilitys and...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2006-06-26

Corporate wikis breaking out all over: MSDN Wiki

ZDNet blogger Richard MacManus wrote a good post late yesterday about the significant release of eBay's new community wiki pages, likely the largest commercial wiki effort to date. But eBay is almost certainly just one of an early beachhead of corporate wiki efforts that will attempt to use...

Tags: MSDN Wiki, Wiki

Blog posts 2006-06-14

Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity

Mentioning "knowledge centricity" is like using the word "paradigm." People really roll their eyes when the abstract terms slip off tongues as evidenced by the way my colleague Dan Farber characterized my usage of the phrase as a dropped bomb at the end of yesterday's Dan & David Show....

Tags: knowledge, Wiki

Blog posts 2006-05-26