As some of you know, I’ve been down for the count most of this week with the flu. Ugh. Like most men, I am a complete wuss when I get just the slightest case of the sniffles. Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed today and came down to eBay HQ… being away from here for more than 48 hours has a way of getting me out of touch with what’s happening on a daily basis. Like this story sitting in my email from yesterday.

I saw this article in Network World about eBay using Joomla (something I wrote about earlier this month) and wanted to share.

First, to summarize eBay’s plans, the auction company will be using Joomla as an intranet-on-steroids for employees that use the company’s data analytics/data warehouse. The Joomla site won’t be a front-end to the data warehouse as some news sites have reported. It will be a social network supplement. Employees will use the content management platform to join groups, network, follow analysts, work with ad-hoc communities on one-off projects, create personalized Web pages, ask/answer questions, create group/team Web pages, blogs and forums. Think of it like intranet meets blog meets LinkedIn.

The full Network World article: eBay to use Joomla as the ‘open source glue’

Cheers,
RBH