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• IBM - $110 per user
• BEA - $64 per user
• Connectbeam - $20 per user
• Cogenz - $12 per user

Hill and Knowlton (H&K) has signed a global partnership deal with Cogenz, a London-based provider of Enterprise 2.0 software - the service will be available in H&K's Singapore office. 

Cogenz is a hosted enterprise social bookmarking service through which companies are able to harness the collective intelligence of employees using social software - the application was developed by a H&K employee with H&K supporting and taking an option in the company due to the trend of clients exploring secure ways to share information and bookmarking.

The Cogenz enterprise bookmarking service allows geographical and functional workgroups to collect and organise web-based intelligence and H&K will act as the exclusive public relations industry partner for the service, providing clients with expertise in engaging employees using social software.

"The main benefit we are seeing at a macro level is how it exposes implicit connections and expertise of individuals and interests. Self-organising communities of interest are forming and we need to think about how we can leverage this trend at a corporate level - unlike other social software, enterprise social bookmarking does not require a huge change in behaviour from users. Even our least IT literate employees understand the concept of bookmarks of favourites, so most of them get it straight away,"

BlueDot, which launched at Gnomedex last Friday, is a beautifully-designed social bookmarking site with a more personal feel. The 10-person company is based in Seattle, and they’ve raised $1.5 million in angel funding from notable investors including former Starbucks Senior VP Don Valencia and former Microsoft Senior VP Richard Fade. The site has more than 2,200 users and 30,000 bookmarks (or “Dots”). They’ve been testing the service for the past 7 months.

In many ways, it’s just another social bookmarking site: you drag a bookmarklet into your browser toolbar and hit it whenever you see something worth remembering. BlueDot asks you to enter a description, tags and a rating before you publish your Dot to the world. The rating system also overlaps with social shopping services like Kaboodle: users can bookmark products, give them a rating and share those recommendations with friends. The business model (as always) is advertising, but they’ve also included affiliate links whenever a user bookmarks a product on Amazon - that’s a neat idea.

which claim to be better because they are successful exactly where del.icio.us is lacking, e.g.:

• Eye candy


• they offer better user interaction (comments, messages)


• Ratings are supported


• More AJAX and effects


• Other sites cache bookmarks internally or may offer thumbnails