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We’ve posted before about how businesses can use Foursquare and only yesterday about Fourwhere , the Foursquare and Google Maps mashup. The speculation is that location will accompany status updates and changes to Facebook’s Terms and Conditions last November appear to have been made in preparation for this ( “When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post.” It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about ‘the big thing for next year’.

Google Sites Gets Templates ... Google introduced a range of site templates for Google Sites, its hosted collaboration and intranet service. " Personal templates are also available, including family sites, weddings, neighborhood associations, clubs, charitable causes, and other interests, said Scott Johnston, Google Sites product manager. The templates can be modified, Standardization of Collaboration Tools ... The EU has been giving funding towards the standardization of online collaboration tools. "

As people who have been followin my Twitter stream know, I recently embarked on a project to use web site optimizer to improve conversions on a landing page I'm using for a Google AdWords campaign. In November, 2008, Michigan Innovators received a Google AdWords grant allowing us up to $10,000 /month in in-kind advertising on Google's search enginge results pages. I recently embarked on a project to use web site optimizer to improve conversions for our non-profit. The experiment has currently been running for about a day and suggests that I might be able to

Instead, I’ll just pick out a few things that have sprung up on my radar as significant changes between November ‘08 and September ‘09. Google primacy > Google supremacy Tags: Great Stuff Social Web Google iphone real time web social media spotify twitter web trend (or 10 things that have changed on the web since Nov 08) In the time I’ve been away and had a baby (she’s 10 months old this week…), a lot has happened.

Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences There has been a lot of talk and discussion of Google Wave as it has spread though invites. In our most popular post in November, Charlie looked at one example of how Google Wave can be used to add real value: as a conference back-channel. We show how at the Ecomm conference delegates were provided with Google Wave accounts. Image by slambo_42 via Flickr At FreshNetworks we aim to bring you the best posts in social media, online communities and customer engagement online.

OffiSync released a paid version of its plug-in that links Microsoft Office and Google's online collaboration tools, including Google Sites. " The plug-in allows users to save their Office files online for access from any desktop or laptop computer using Google Apps and Docs; find specific Office files with Google search; and collaborate on Office documents with coworkers through Google Docs. OffiSync is Cisco on Collaboration ... Cisco announced new products in the collaboration space. "

Microsoft claimed it is making the move as a result of rapid customer adoption, global scale and improved efficiencies from new software (such as Exchange Server 2010), but it's more likely the company is simply making sure it remains competitive with Google and IBM's offerings. It includes integration with Google Wave. " Long catch-up post today, with news from last week while I was busy in Singapore ... Microsoft BPOS Price Reduction ...

Once you upload a Word or Google Docs document to SharedDoc’s platform, you can send email invites to a friends or colleagues to comment on the document. On Google Chrome OS ... Google's new Chrome OS is intended to strengthen Google in the fight against Microsoft in the enterprise. " SharedDoc ... SharedDoc is a new document commenting service, for collaborative document reviews. "

Google Apps Closing on Office ... Readers at Mashable think that Google Apps is closing the gap on Microsoft Office. " Google Docs registered 37% of the tally with its 994 votes. Virtual Collaborator ... Guided Insights offer their take on the key attributes of the exceptional virtual collaborator. " In this edition of Communiqué, we look at characteristics