Comparison of enterprise bookmarking platforms

The following tables compare Enterprise bookmarking

Enterprise bookmarking

Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Enterprise 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver...

platforms.

General

The table provides an overview of Enterprise Bookmarking platforms. The platforms listed refer to an application that is installed on a web server (usually requiring MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

or another database and PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

, Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

, or some other language for webapps).

Software	Developed by	Latest stable release	Cost (USD)	Open source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...	Programming language	User Interface	Notes
Connectbeam Connectbeam Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...	Connectbeam	Spotlight 3.1 (2008-6)	per instance		binary only	browser	none
Dogear	IBM Corporation	2.0.1 (2009-3)	per instance		binary only	browser	does not run on mySQL, requires IBM DB2 9.1 FP5, Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.3, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...	Jumper Networks	2.0.1.7 (2010-7)		- GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Javascript JavaScript JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.... & PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	browser	runs on mySQL database for storing tag profiles. Can also be configured to run on Oracle Database 10g or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...	Knowledge Plaza	2.3.18	free trial, starts at 35€/month/instance		Javascript JavaScript JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.... and Python (programming language) Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...	browser	Software-as-a-Service
Licorize Licorize Licorize is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages and parts of pages' contents. Additionally all bookmarks and can be contextually classified as to-do's, reminders, ideas, and each of these types has a different layout and behaviour. Licorize...	Licorize	2.0	5$ month/user if used as Software-as-a-Service, 4000$ per server if installed (non expiring license)		Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...	browser	Software-as-a-Service and installed option, full Java sources are provided in the installed version
Scuttle Scuttle (software) Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.- Functions :...	Scuttle	0.7.4 (2008-7)		- GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....	Javascript JavaScript JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.... & PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	browser	none

Date and content types

This table lists the types of data that can be tagged.

Software	Web pages	Documents	Images	Video	Emails	Contacts	Book references	Discussions	Wiki pages	Database tables	Flat-files	Notes
Connectbeam Connectbeam Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...												none
Dogear												none
Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...												none
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...												none
Licorize Licorize Licorize is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages and parts of pages' contents. Additionally all bookmarks and can be contextually classified as to-do's, reminders, ideas, and each of these types has a different layout and behaviour. Licorize...												none
Scuttle Scuttle (software) Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.- Functions :...												none

Content enrichment capabilities

Tags and metadata can be used to enrich previously described types of data and content. This table lists the default capabilities each platform provides.

Software	Keywords	Descriptions	Custom Tag Fields	Metadata	Knowledge Tags	Notes
Connectbeam Connectbeam Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...						none
Dogear						none
Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...						none
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...						none
Licorize Licorize Licorize is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages and parts of pages' contents. Additionally all bookmarks and can be contextually classified as to-do's, reminders, ideas, and each of these types has a different layout and behaviour. Licorize...						none
Scuttle Scuttle (software) Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.- Functions :...						none

Tag management capabilities

Enterprise bookmarking

tools differ from social bookmarking

Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them....

tools in the way that they often have to meet taxonomy

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...

constraints. Tag management capabilities are the uphill (e.g. faceted classification

Faceted classification

A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways, rather than in a single, predetermined, taxonomic order. A facet comprises "clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive...

, predefined tags) and downhill gardening (e.g. tag renaming, moving, merging) abilities that can be put in place to manage the folksonomy

Folksonomy

A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging...

generated from user tagging.

Software	Faceted classification	Restricted facets	Mandatory facets	Predefined tags	Related/synonym tags	Notes
Connectbeam Connectbeam Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...						none
Dogear						none
Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...						none
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...						none
Scuttle Scuttle (software) Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.- Functions :...						none

Platform and security capabilities

Security abilities at the platform level:

On-premises, refers to an application that is installed on a web server behind the corporate firewall.
Hosted, refers to a centrally-hosted website that is outside the corporate firewall
Encryption level, refers to the level of encryption enforced by the application server

Security abilities at the application level:

Access permissions, refers to the ability to define a list of users who have access to the application.
Information-level permissions, refers to the ability to define per data/content item (e.g. a document) its accessibility/visibility within the application (invisible, downloadable, etc)
Workspace-level permissions, refers to the ability to create team spaces with different accessibility/visibility settings.
Role-level permissions, refers to the ability to assign roles to users (e.g. administrator, guest, workspace expert) which will also affect accessibility/visibility settings.

Software	Encryption level	Information-level permissions	Workspace-level permissions	Role-level permissions	Notes
Connectbeam Connectbeam Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...	?	?	?	?	none
Dogear	?	?	?	?	The Lotus Connection Suite with Dogear runs on the AIX (Unix) operating system
Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0 Jumper 2.0, is an open source web application script for collaborative search and knowledge management powered by a shared enterprise bookmarking engine that is a fork of KnowledgebasePublisher[]. It was publicly announced on 29 September 2008,...	HTTPS optionally available				LDAP integration is available
Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza Knowledge Plaza, also referred to as KP, is an Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management tool which provides a balance between social bookmarking, document management, wikis and an internal social network...	HTTPS with high-grade 256-bit AES				none
Licorize Licorize Licorize is a social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages and parts of pages' contents. Additionally all bookmarks and can be contextually classified as to-do's, reminders, ideas, and each of these types has a different layout and behaviour. Licorize...	HTTPS is available				none
Scuttle Scuttle (software) Scuttle is a PHP/MySQL-based open source social bookmarking application. It contains code from other PHP-based projects such as Drupal and jQuery.- Functions :...	?	?	?	?	none

Server operating system support

In the case of web applications, this describes the server OS. For centrally-hosted websites that are proprietary, this is not applicable. Any client OS can connect to a web service unless stated otherwise in a footnote.