Netvibes is pushing UWA (Universal Widget API) on the social-networking stage.....are users/members communities going to adopt it?

The Google initiated OpenSocial highly strategic movement is still the current hot topic emerging as a potential standard for sharing people networks, profiles and much more....which might be a great initiative if sufficiently opened to become a real standard that e

Take a look at the ICE'2008 announcement and Call-for-Papers I've posted in the CWE Newsblog.

Come to ICE'2008 Lisbon, Portugal, 23-25 June 2008, to join the research community and share the latest research progress in the domains of CE (Concurrent Engineering), CWE (Collaborative Working Environments, Open Innovation, Living Labs and much more...

It is widely recognised that a number of various factors are affecting collaboration effectiveness and efficiency. Those factors are creating different types of distance among people having to work together whatever is their geographic location, local language, cultural environment, communication infrastructure, social network and local regulation.

A recent literature review has allowed us to i

During a previous EU funded IST research project, named COMIST, we have experimented individual's blogging across several communities where each member can have his own "my blog" while the overall blog is addressing all communities' members. This blogging tool has been developed with Drupal (can be visited here) within a wiki based communities website.

We have gained knowledge about this new b