Guillaume Lerouge’s blog

Here's what I had to say on the topic:

The first thing I'd like to mention is that the "Magic Quadrant for Social Software Solutions in the Workplace" used to be called "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software" a couple years back (see http://mtstaging.socialtext.net/files/Gartner_MagicQuadrantReport.pdf for an example). So the focus was (and still is) on content creation and sharing.

XWiki software is designed for content creation and sharing. The social part comes as a byproduct of content creation. In XWiki, social stems from collaboration, whereas the solutions you're mentioning are mostly positioning themselves as enterprise social networks. I'd say that social is not limited to social networks, the social part can be present under other forms within a company.

For instance, you can have a lively discussion about a document in the comments section (such as on http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/MultiExportProposal#comments for instance). There's definitely a social part there as people who are working together on the same document get to interact and bond.

In short: the fact that XWiki Enterprise isn't the tool you would to build an enterprise's internal social network doesn't mean it doesn't qualify as social software ;-)

Do you agree?

I'm actually pretty impressed / convinced by the "write once / run everywhere" promise of AIR, having experienced it successfully for applications such as Balsamiq Mockups. If the performance is astonishing (and it seems to fall short of this for now), it could well give the iPad a run for its money.

Multitasking on the iPad should be available pretty soon though, let's hope November holds its promises!

For the record, eating foie gras while drinking wine and enjoying Paris' monuments view from a boat rocks big time :-)

I've had the opportunity to witness this a couple times now, and it's definitely true. In business, who you are doesn't matter, it's what you achieve that really counts.