With this OpenSearch plug-in developed for Atlassian’s Confluence, you make it possible to search your Confluence site from the outside with an OpenSearch client. Atlassian’s Confluence is an enterprise wiki for sharing knowledge that comes with its own search engine. By using OpenSearch to search through your Confluence from another website, you continue to use Confluence’s own search engine. (more…)

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Wikinomics is a book about the mass web-based collaboration that has emerged in the last few years. It explains well-known phenomena such as Wikipedia and Flickr, as well as new kinds of business such as InnoCentive, which introduces a peer-to-peer model to scientific research.

The only annoyance is the book’s relentless repetition of the key points, as if it were not a fairly simple idea, so although I recommend the book, you should skip half of it.

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Peter Hilton is a senior software developer at Lunatech Research.

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