Google released a fairly significant version 6.2 of its appliance today. There's a very corporate YouTube video summarizing the main novelties, and a quirky one about the one spotlighted for this release -- the "Self Learning Scorer," which uses indirect feedback from clickthroughs to improve ranking

This is an important week for Microsoft. In the face of a major offensive from Google’s “Gone Google” campaign, they launch Windows 7 and also reveal some interesting developments at the SharePoint conference in Vegas.

The latest Microsoft SharePoint conference is nearly here. Microsoft has been saving all of the biggest announcements about the upcoming 2010 release

Last week, IBM announced the official release of Lotus Connections 2.5. For me, the main two updates in this social software tool are

Is Google Sites a SharePoint killer? Well, to be fair, I haven't heard the exact term this past week, but the innuendo was clearly there

The past year or so IBM has been promoting the concept of "Agile ECM" in its marketing for FileNet P8. It is an interesting concept both at a marketing and implementation level regardless of whether P8 itself really fits such a label itself

SurfRay, maker of Ontolica and twice bankrupt search software company, announced availability of Ontolica 4.0 for SharePoint. This new version, according to the announcement, includes

Today we released an update to our SharePoint evaluation research. It includes lots of new goodies about 3rd-party applications and an initial assessment of SharePoint 2010. However

As any product gains in popularity, especially if it's seen as dominant, you tend to see more and more news about alternatives that inevitably get dubbed "killers." The news media and the product's competitors are continually trying

One of my favorite technology terms is "Shadow IT."  The term is not employed often enough, and its role in undermining good information management should be more widely broadcast, because Shadow IT represents a plague on content management

The "places" where we work have changed and continue to change. To those of you reading this blog entry on your iPhone, Nokia E-Series or Blackberry device

I recently advised a global consumer goods firm about how to integrate their various Social Software implementations and where to place SharePoint in that mix. This was that rare company who had not yet implemented SharePoint hardly at all

We have had an interesting internal discussion at CMS Watch the past few days, surrounding the cost of storage for content technology systems. It is a discussion that too few buyers have before embarking on costly

How can we best understand the broad social software and collaboration vendor marketplace? I'd just been pondering that question when