IBM creates 'social software' research centre
Published: 18 Sep 2008 11:30 BST
IBM has announced the creation of a research centre for the development of "social software", from consumer web apps to enterprise communication tools.
At its launch, researchers from Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters' healthcare division have agreed to be "corporate residents" in the facility.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the IBM Center for Social Software, according to a release, will take on the task of creating "a new type of collaborative environment to tackle some of the toughest questions about social software, identify new business models, help discover next-generation Web 2.0 applications, and determine how and why people form viral communities and the implications they have on our daily lives".
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IBM plans to collaborate with government agencies, businesses, universities and other research institutions, and the venture-capital community on future Center for Social Software projects. Partners can send employees to the facility to work with IBM's researchers on anything from internal networks at businesses to social search and discovery or cloud computing.
"The Center for Social Software is a channel for the social-computing community and our customers to collaborate on the most innovative social technologies being developed today," IBM fellow Irene Greif, who will serve as the facility's director, said in a release Wednesday.
"We view the centre as a magnet for the top social-computing scientists around the world to visit, share work and innovate," said Greif.
Credit: IBM opens 'social software' development center from CNET News
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