At the heart of Cogenz, there’s a Microsoft core. With some corporations this is often a plus. With most of the Web 2.0 aficionados, it’s usually Ruby on Rails and LAMP that come first.
Being practical about our choice, though, here’s how we tacked some of the technical challenges that we had.
Friendly URLs
With Apache, friendly URLs […]

One of the major benefits that comes from using an enterprise bookmarking tool like Cogenz (as opposed to just using a publicly-available social bookmarking tool) is the ability to locate expertise within your organisation.
In large organisations in particular, finding someone who knows about a specific topic can be extremely difficult. Cogenz offers a few ways […]

One of the features of Cogenz is the ability for administrators to decide whether they want to allow their users to post items to both Cogenz and del.icio.us at the same time - using just the Cogenz browser buttons.
This is probably best demonstrated with a screencast (no audio). Sorry about the quality - I promise […]

The main difference between Cogenz and publicly accessible social bookmarking sites is that subscribing companies get their own “silo” that only its’ users can access. As beta tester Anu Gupta more eloquently puts it:
Instead of the del.icio.us model of a huge vat of shared tag soup (ignoring private bookmarks), cogenz pours the soup into different […]

Like Steve Crescenzo, I too have been suffering from a severe case of blogimpotence when it comes to Cogenz and just haven’t been able to get a post up. Profuse apologies for my inadequacies.
In my defence, it’s hardly surprising once you see what we’ve been up to. And so to this post.
Yes, that’s right. Our […]