IBM’s Bluehouse – Facebook for Business?

IBM just launched Bluehouse, a service that combines the features of social networking (ala Facebook) with business-collaboration tools.

My first impression is that the demos look great. A nice clean interface, useful tools, and I can see this being a replacement for current online project management services.

Currently Bluehouse is free during its public beta release. After the beta-testing is completed over the next few months, subscription pricing will be offered. It will be interesting to see what kind of pricing options IBM will make available.

Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking — damn, this service is like every ebiz buzzword combined. My prediction: Bluehouse’s notoriety expands until Google makes a free version.Keep up with posts like this by subscribing to our RSS feed, or following @WhoIsHosting on Twitter.