Portal Collaboration Roadmap

What kind of Collaboration Roadmap would I like to see Google or Yahoo follow?

Start with WebMail.

• offer custom-Domain hosting

  • have master domain Address Book automatically shared/updated across everyone

    • but allow a custom comment field for each user to add to entry

• Use tagging categorization model like GMail (instead of folders).

• Encourage tags to be written as WikiWord-s.

  • have Auto-Complete lookup against list of pages in space

• Then auto-link WikiWord-s in messages to query for that tag. (WikiWordAsTag)

• And BackLinks for a Wiki Page include search of GMail (maybe inline in right column)

Then move into Address Book - AppWiki

• Auto-generate WikiWord name of each Address Book entry ("John Smith" has 'John Smith')

  • might not have uniqueness

  • every person in To/Cc/Bcc of incoming/outgoing EMail messages should have auto-WikiWord-tag generated

• Allow WikiWord tags to also be manually associated with every Address Book entry.

• Recognize/link WikiWord tags within (some?) Address Book fields.

• searches on WikiWord tag return both WebMail threads and Address Book results (and let you filter/limit to any subset of spaces; and let you sort by Relevance (?) or last-mod-date or create-date)

• other Address Book additions

  • provide FOAF/XFN/MicroFormat interface, with entries treated as Friends

    • global on/off for user; default?

    • option to keep some records "private" (maybe public/domain/private)

    • use hash of EMail address

  • since other people don't have FOAF/XFN views yet to even assemble all their own online identities (FlickR acct, Del.icio.us acct, etc.), make fields for each of those. (Like Thirty Boxes.)

  • offer at least 1 shared Address Book for Domain - start of SFA system

Then do Calendar similar way

• (probably no unique name for event, though maybe make record-id visible so could in theory use InterWiki naming convention to point to a specific event)

• Allow WikiWord tags to also be manually associated with every Calendar entry.

• Recognize/link WikiWord tags within (some?) Calendar fields.

• other Calendar additions

  • provide Group Calendaring features for Domain (and with others - see next item)

  • provide Free-Busy/MicroFormat API interface

    • add Free-Busy URI field to Address Book (automatically fill when possible)

Offer TeamWiki - at least 1 space per Domain

• now you have Email Discussion Beside Wiki

Offer Issue Tracker Wiki - at least 1 space per Domain

Offer SfaViaIssue Tracker Wiki

Office Suite (GoogleApps)? Lite, with a focus on Version Control?

• attach WikiWord/MetaTag-s to each file