http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article5/article5.html
This article discusses the market for social software and evaluates a number of current social software vendors. Thought other’s might be interested in seeing how the social software market is shaping up.
I read this a few weeks ago – my initial thought is that it is a good visual depiction of how immature this market is and I anticipate a lot of changes and consolidation to occur in this area as the viable business models and products shake out.
I agree 100% Elizabeth. The products are still immature and the ones that claim to do everything, don’t really do it all well. Most of the products are good at 1-2 things, not everything.
For example, even this site, is good at a lot of things but it lacks wiki functionality which is a big piece that I’d eventually like.