Collaborative services comparison chart

 

Service/Link

Price

Runs inside firewall?

SMS and Directory Integration?

Other notable features

Qik.Com

Free

No

No/No

Self-service, mobile video sharing

Box.net

Free to $15/user/month

No

Yes/No

File sharing

Content Circles

Free, $10/user/month and up

Yes

No/No

File sharing, SharePoint, Docushare, other integration

Prologue

Free

Yes

No/No

Wordpress platform

Socialcast.com

Free (1)

Yes (1)

No/Yes (1)

Custom categories, tags

SocialText

Free (1) to $5/user/month

Yes (1)

No/Yes

Workflow and rich applications

Identi.ca

Free

Yes (2)

Yes/No

Open source, Twitter client interoperability

Etherpad PNE

$49/user

Yes

No/No

Mainly for document collaboration

Presentlyapp

Free (1)

Yes (1)

Yes/No

Images and video, ad hoc groups

Yammer.com

Free to $5/user/month

No

Yes/No

Self-service

Yonkly.com

Free to $25/month

No

No/No

Images, threaded discussions

(1)   They sell an enterprise edition for behind the firewall usage.

(2)   You can run their open source Laconi.ca code on your own Linux server

 

Chart © 2009 David Strom Inc.

See original article in CIOUpdate.com here.