San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Near-Time later this month plans to launch a hosted collaboration service for creating workspaces that leverage blogs, wikis, and group calendar functions. The service, also called Near-Time, allows workers to instantly launch collaborative communities via any Web browser. Members can choose to collaborate privately and make some or all of the content publicly available. The service is designed to combine the nonlinear, ad-hoc nature of wikis with the time-sensitive, broadcast essence of blogs. Near-Time is based on standards such as rSS, XML, Atom, and Ajax and allows content to be reused. The service is currently available in a free beta version. The commercial launch will include a free, entry-level service and fee-based advanced services, including encryption, domain mapping, and file sharing. Service pricing will start at $4.95 per month.
Near-Time, Near-Time

Symantec tackles threats at the gateway
Symantec has unveiled the SGS (Symantec Gateway Security) 1600 Series of UTM (unified threat management) appliances, along with Version 3.0 of its Symantec Gateway Security software. Filling the gap between the company’s SGS 460 appliance for SOHO and SGS 5600 series for larger networks, the SGS 1620 and 1660 models combine stateful firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, anti-spam, anti-virus, intrusion prevention, content filtering services, plus one year of maintenance and content updates for all functions for $1,199 and $3,844, respectively. Symantec recommends the 1620 for networks of 100 protected nodes, and the 1660 for networks of 200 protected nodes.
Symantec Gateway Security 1600 Series, Symantec

Peering into the network storm
Entuity last week unfurled Version 4.5 of its Eye of the Storm network management suite, equipping administrators with greater visibility and control over the network. Designed to perform continual automated network device and topology discovery and management, Eye of the Storm now offers hierarchical administrative support, which enables network admins to define users and groups and the level of network visibility. Version 4.5 also brings support for firewalls, VPN gateways, servers, and hosts. Pricing starts at $50,000.
Eye of the Storm 4.5, Entuity

Optovia boosts disaster recovery
Optovia has released SpanExpress, an optical amplifier designed to aid business continuance and disaster recovery in the event of a datacenter loss. SpanExpress allows enterprises to use storage area networks and optical transport technologies to locate datacenters as far as 200 kilometers away. SpanExpress aims to eliminate the need to boost the optical signal periodically along the transmission line when replicating storage traffic over long distances. 
SpanExpress, Optovia

Technorati Tags: blog, blogs, rss

 Wiki - What SEOs can learn from it
I've been actively researching ways to quickly and effectively build content to websites. And while blogs tend to be near the top of the list, there are other opportunities out there. One such opportunity is a Wiki. And while a Wiki won't suit all sites, there are those which can use a Wiki effectively. If you think you are one of those sites, take a look at this article. What is a Wiki? Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports....

 Website Ranking Key Words Things to Think About Before You Start Designing
I designed a website once for streaming audio, this was the key word I was to use streaming website audio, this sounds like a good key word phrase! When it got onto Google it made number one, wow I thought I should get lots of hits with this? I got a grand total of 0 hits, why do you think that was? It's all to do with supply and demand only around 135 people typed these key words in and the demand is around 620000 websites doing the same thing. When you pick your key words there needs to be a good demand....

 Beyond Keyword Demand
I get half of the world traffic for the term "dirtbagging," on one page of my backpacking site, but that only means ten visitors a month. Without decent keyword demand you can't ever get much traffic. Total demand is just one factor to consider, though. Here are some others. 1. Demand/supply ratio. There were 289,000 searches for "fishing" last month, but could you compete against the 35,000,000 results on a Google search? "Bass fishing tips," with 3,700 searches, and 31,000 results is a more likely winner. 2. Total supply. For....

 Making Money With Your Blog
I've sure you've heard before that it's a possibility to make money with your blog and you may be wondering how this is possible. And were they really meant for making money or just for journaling your personal thoughts? I'm not sure what they were intended for but they are great ways to make money. I have a personal blog which is just my own private little place to go online and jot down my thoughts, but I also have my business blogs. Back In The Beginning Now....

 It’s A Blog, Not A Sales Letter
The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to ignite the hope that people can make a full-time income from blogging. Although there are a few people actually doing this, there aren't too many business models yet that can support someone making a full-time income from their blogs. I believe that blogs should be an important part of any traffic-generation plan for a website, but don't depend on the blog itself to do much selling. Blogs are best viewed as an addition to site content, in reality, a very simple content management system that helps you update your site more frequently, so....

 Use Your Blog To Increase Sales
For some of us blogging is just about passing time and writing something on a webpage that is of interest to us. Most of us use blogs as a tool for self expression, to make new friends or discuss any issue. But is this all that blogging is about? Well there’s much more that a blog can do for you. It can help to increase your sales and improve your relationship with your clients tremendously, which ultimately again leads to massive increase in sales and profits. So how does it help in improving your brand value, sales, product quality and client-company....

 Blogging Dollars in 7 Hours or Less
Need to make money fast, but you don't want to spend a single cent to establish an online business? Fret not, dear friend. You could actually start earning from the web with zero capital, zero obligations and zero risks! All these can be accomplished within 24 hours! Read on and I'll show you how.Hour 1Try to find a profitable niche. Niches are highly specialized segments of a market where the demand is high and the supplies are low. There are few competitions in a niche, allowing you more opportunity to establish your online presence. Think of a market that you....

 How to Write A Blog… And Survive
The question of the day is "Should you start a Blog?" People all over the planet are blogging. Companies, CEOs, lawyers, journalists, stewardesses. Even dogs and babies. Why? Because they can. It's that simple. Blogging requires little or no learning curve. If you can type, speak into a phone, bark, chew, record a holiday movie, you can blog. Blogs have taken publishing out of the domain of those who know HTML and designing, to make this powerful tool available to the rest of us. That holiday in the Far East, your grandma's birthday, you company's latest product offering, your new recipe for rum cake, your....

 Blogs Explained
It seems like Blogs are everywhere these days. You can't seem to surf the Internet without seeing the word Blog somewhere. The intent of this article is to explain the basics what a Blog is and how you can use them to help promote your business and gain valuable information quicker that surfing the Internet. The word Blog is short for web log. Basically a Blog is just an area set aside you to write articles that can easily be accessed with a special program called a RSS reader. In case you're wondering RSS stands for real simple syndication. When you set....

 Selling your own Ad space online
Nowadays, selling your own advertising space is a good earning stream, so long as you consider it to be an additional thing to do along with your business. Nowadays, selling your own advertising space is a good earning stream, so long as you consider it to be an additional thing to do along with your business. Once you feel you are having a lot of traffic on your website or a large subscriber list, you can opt in for selling it. Once you have got ample amount of subscribers....

 The Future Of Web Design Is Content Management!
Web development has greatly increased in popularity over the last 5 years. Many new design concepts, code standards, and technology advances have happened in a short amount of time. With that, so has the knowledge and demand for better, more independent and functional web design packages. More and more we are starting to see a shift in consumer demand for the increasingly popular website content management system. Most website owner's are typical business entrepreneurs who don't have the time to chase down their web design company for some minor updates....

 Blogs; what good are they anyway?
blogs; what good are they anyway? Well, actually blogs are both fantastic whether you are running a business website or you are simply using blogs for fun. In terms of business, blogs can prove to be a supplemental form of advertisement and you will find them to be a unique device that you can use to keep in contact with your clients. Further, in terms of personal use, blogs are definitely an excellent way to stay in touch with your family and friends, even if they are across the globe. Best of all, blogs....

 Blogs Can Boost Your Online Business Income : Video Tutorial
WHY BLOGS CAN BOOST YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS INCOME Its been quite a long while since the creation of blogs. Now, if you've been actively surfing the web, you should realized that the numbers of blogs are increasing drastically. Many sites that you've surfed are blogs. Did you wonder why is it that so many people are using blogs as their official site or platform for their business? If you have a blog for whatever purposes, then you will know that blog is a very easy to create kind of website, and search engines like them.....

 Marketing with Blogs and RSS Feeds
Perhaps you still don't realize or fully understand the power of RSS Feeds as a marketing tool. After all, email works fine, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the truth is: 1. It's getting harder to send e-mails to the prospect's inbox because of SPAM filters 2. People are getting numbed by the amount of e-mails they receive everyday 3. People are not reading their e-mails 4. It's getting harder to get people to opt-in or subscribe to your newsletter or content. With RSS feeds, this changes the playing field: 1. RSS feeds can bypasses email - Eat your hearts out! Rss feeds can be read by desktop software and delivered....

 This blog now has defined niche specific content
After reading a post submitted to my blog... here by Greg Hall, I decided to take his advice and change the focus of my Pro Blog Tips website to blogs and blogging. Have removed over 300 articles that related to other subjects that were not really blog related. Must admit that taking the plung and removing so many posts was a bit scary as I'm sure that for at least the next few months traffic to Pro Blog Tips will be effected. Not long ago I took the same steps with a number of dating blogs. Found that traffic dropped for about....

Trackback URL for this post:
http://www.problogtips.com/near-time-serves-up-blogs-wikis-on-demand/1981/trackback/

Posted by Jaron in the catagory of... General Interest