Social Networking for Developers Still Coming Up Short
Remember's Sun's tag line "the network is the computer" (that was before they put the dot in the Internet and were consumed by Oracle's merger-mania machine). IBM seems to be taking a similar approach by making "social networking is the development process" with the announcement of the My developerWorks social networking service.
An IBM exec quoted in ReadWriteWeb says:
IBM's goal with My developerWorks is to connect the global community of software developers and make it easier for them to create new technologies based on open standards such as Java, Linux and XML.
developerWorks is loaded with great resources and if IBM wants to create a Facebook + SourceForge + remote meeting service it would be a significant contribution. Many of us use a handful of collaboration tools, from code repositories and wikis to Skype and Yugma. If IBM could give us all that in one place, it would be a step in the right direction. We don't need another also ran in the social networking space though.
A service with wikis, blogs, workspaces, and basic group management is a start but adding realtime collaboration tools is better.
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