Jack Martin today announced Collaborative Democracy, which is a political framework where electors and the elected actively collaborate to attain the best possible solution to any situation using collaborative enabling technologies to facilitate wide scale citizen participation in government. Collaborative Democracy brings all people into the governing process to help civilization reach its full potential. The basic technological building blocks to enable Collaborative Democracy now exist and all that is required is that they be threaded together in a way that an average citizen can use them productively.

WaveMaker announced its new WaveMaker Visual Assembly StudioTM and Rapid Deployment Framework for Enterprise Web 2.0 applications. WaveMaker enables the visual assembly of scalable Web applications using AJAX widgets, Web services and databases. Using WaveMaker, Fortune 2000 organizations can embrace innovative Web 2.0 technologies while adhering to the architectural, security and data policies of CIOs.

A new FSBO website has been designed to streamline browsing experience to help potential home buyers and sellers with their process. Fizber.com Web 2.0 services include Drive Score, Bike Score, Street View, Climate Watch, Fizber Video, integrated Google Maps, City Profiles and Blogs.

Online Media Solutions,Ltd. announced an agreement with Lookery, LLC. The two companies will supply services and applications that enable international advertisers to target US-based publishers operating in the world of social networks, by monetizing social network applications. Social network applications, also known as 'apps' or 'widgets', are small programs that users download and run on their profiles.

Inkriti announced it has completed an agreement to AJAX-enable the web-interfaces of OATSystems. OATSystems delivers RFID-enabled solutions for industrial manufacturers, consumer product companies and retailers. These solutions enable enterprises to improve asset management, streamline assembly line operations, improve promotional effectiveness and increase on-shelf availability.

IBM announced new and enhanced products to help telecommunications carriers, equipment providers and application developers take advantage of service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to help them create, deploy and manage voice, video and data services. IBM enhanced its existing software portfolio to help service providers enable flexible, standards-compliant service platforms that support the delivery of IP-based services.

In this session we will examine how the SOA and Web 2.0 technology-based platform developed in Openreach Portal by wiring up the existing rigid flows and deploying them for execution, through Web and Web service interfaces in real-time and zero down time, gave the power to end users to define their own services and flows.