Artesia Spotlight: June 2009

Artesia Spotlight is a monthly review of key news in the fields of social media, user communities and virtual worlds. If you want to be the first to read the news, you can subscribe to receive Artesia Spotlight by e-mail on this page.

Post Spotlight

There are many online tools that enable us to work on a document with someone. ReadWriteWeb's The Online Collaboration Tools Guide includes some of the best online collaboration tools, which enable you to work on documents together or keep files in sync with other collaborators.

News Spotlight

A group of Australian Google engineers tried to answer the question "What would email look like if we set out to invent it today?". The result is Google Wave, a new communication and collaboration web tool, which will be released to the public later this year. Google Wave will support real-time collaboration and communication and will make use of the new HTML 5 standard. For more info, you can watch the full developer preview or read a summary of Wave features on Techcrunch.

Other news

• Business social networking site Xing now provides its users with a personalized news filtering and sharing application, and an application, which allows them to easily ask questions to the Xing community.
• Russian internet company Digital Sky Technologies has bought a 200 million USD stake in Facebook.
• CubeTree has launched an online enterprise collaboration suite, which provides employees with all essential social networking tools and an overview of what is going on in their companies through a personalized news feed.
• The New York Times has appointed its first social media editor.
• Netlog, a social networking site with over 45 million users across Europe, now integrates with Google Friend Connect.
• Google now provides more detailed Search Options, which provide tools that can help you refine your search results by date and topic.