Walter Rafelsberger introduces mawih, a wiki-based mail-client. mawih seems to fetch incoming mail to wiki-pages, which should allow users to annotate/collaborate effectively on mail. this could be very useful groups of users processing a shared email-adress (f.e. office@, support@, admin@…).
according to Read/WriteWeb, Eurekster just upgraded their social search service swicki. a swicki is a user-created mixture of customized search engine (think Rollyo) and wiki, allowing its users to tag and promote search-results up & down, as well as adding their own results. sounds a lot like what Jimbo Wales is going to create with Search Wikia…
cogmap is definitely among the more interesting web-apps popping up these days. best described as ‘the Wikipedia for organization charts of real-life companies”, the application offers a graphical Wiki specialized in mapping of organizational hierarchies. using an AJAxified editor, contributors - weither they officially represent the mapped company or not - are invited to collaborate on charts. as rev2 points out, reliability of data is not always on par with reality. the AJAX-interface seems to be rather unresponsive, and MBAs might miss basic organizational elements like staff units.
No Inc, builders of cogmap, need to round off the featureset of what could evolve into a serious resource for business-research. for liable, up-2-date information, cogmap will probably need to implement functionality, allowing officially approved company-representatives to freeze in organizational structures. until this has happened, anybody can be CEO of Google for five minutes 
the official Google blog just has announced the aquisition of JotSpot, a well-known player in the market of collaborative wiki- & online-office products reviewed some time ago. as for the deal, I’m not sure what to make of it: while few key-modules of JotSpot (spreadsheets, word processing) are already part of Google’s web-office offering (in my opinion outperforming JotSpot’s counterparts), JotSpot could bring in new features like business-oriented wikis, project management, call-tracking, knowledgebase- and recruiting-management etc. regarding how long it took Google to snort up integrate Writely, I wonder if they wouldn’t be better off adding their own wiki-functioniality to Google Office, which is just taking shape.
for the moment, JotSpot’s registration is closed until accounts are integrated with Google, charged JotSpot-customers will be converted to free-accounts (while remaining functionality, of course).
update: following coverage at GigaOm and TechCrunch.
if you haven’t been to denmark yet, here might be a good reason to go there this summer:
This year’s Wiki Symposium brings together wiki researchers and practitioners in the historic and beautiful city of Odense, Denmark, on August 21-23, 2006. Participants will present, discuss, and move forward the latest advances in wiki contents, sociology, and technology. The symposium program offers invited talks by Angela Beesley (”How and Why Wikipedia Works“), Doug Engelbart and Eugene E. Kim (”The Augmented Wiki“), Mark Bernstein (”Intimate Information“) and Ward Cunningham (”Design Principles of Wikis“).
more info at http://www.wikisym.org/ws2006.
