Widgetbox introduces integration with Confluence
Widgetbox widgets "componentize" applications and Web sites, making them portable and transferable across any Web site. To date, the focus has been on consumers, but the integration with a clear enterprise business product like Confluence is a good step behind the firewall. The company also recently introduced Blidgets, which take any feed and turn it into a widget.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Confluence wiki and Atlassian's bug-tracking tool, Jira, they provide free versions to open-source projects and accordingly have a huge market presence in the open-source community. They also happen to have a very good business selling their tools as one of Australia's fastest-growing software companies.
The Atlassian tools are utilitarian applications that get the job done right. However, once you get involved in seriously trying to customize your wiki or bring in outside applications and data, you quickly hit a wall.
Besides my obvious suggestion of incorporating video games into your corporate wiki, Widgetbox can help you bring in and manage all kinds of news feeds, as well as data from other sites, with in a much simpler manner then previously available.
Dave Rosenberg dishes up "Software, Interrupted" with nearly 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to multiple start-up IPOs to open-source enterprise software companies. He is co-founder of MuleSource and currently serves as the general manager of Hardy Way. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can contact Dave via e-mail at softwareinterrupted@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @daveofdoom. 
300+ Confluence plugins: http://tr.im/gJNg
ThemeBuilder for GUI customization: http://tr.im/gJNO
Balsamiq as an external application within Confluence: http://tr.im/gJOd
Data integration with SharePoint: http://tr.im/gJOd
- by Aaron_Fulkerson February 25, 2009 11:12 PM PST
- That's cool. MindTouch added this MindTouch Deki two years ago too, except it's done with point and click. MindTouch Deki also has an in page message bus that allows these widgets communicate to each other or other services and applications. It's great for remixing content, services, etc. These mashups can also be created server side too at page composition time. www.MindTouch.com
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