Microsoft does 'social computing' with SharePoint

C|Net | at | by Mike

When it comes to using Web 2.0 technologies in businesses, Microsoft is officially onboard. Microsoft's general manager of SharePoint tools and platforms, Derek Burney, gave a talk at the Enterprise 2.0 conference here, where he announced a Web 2.0-style add-on called Community Kit for SharePoint.

Also, enterprise RSS vendor NewsGator announced that it has enhanced SharePoint's feed subscribing tools with tagging and an Ajax interface. The notion of integrating Web 2.0 technologies from the public Internet--blogs, wikis, and social networking features--in businesses has been gaining momentum for the past few years and is sometimes referred to as "enterprise 2.0."