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The latest from productivity application developers Zoho is Projects 2.0, an online project and team collaboration suite. On top of standard project management tools such as reports and scheduling, Zoho enhances it’s offering by integrating popular Web 2.0 features. Here is what you can expect to see in this release…

Project Planning through milestones, tasks, priorities, completion, dependencies and ownership, along with the ability to import from Microsoft Project.

Project Collaboration features include a Project Stream to track recent activities, User Status for Twitter-like status updates, Shared Project Calendar to stay up to date on upcoming deadlines and meetings, Project Wikis, and Centralized File Sharing with folders, tags, search and versioning. Integration with Zoho Office is also available for document creation and editing. Discussion features are enhanced by interactive forums and live chat.

Project Tracking is easy through the Project Dashboard which offers an at-a-glance view of project activity. Additional features include reports for visual evaluation of project progress and timesheet tools for tracking time spent on tasks.

A free version of Zoho Projects 2.0 is available for unlimited users working on a single project. Additional projects and increased storage require paid plans available from $12 – $80 per month.

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today in Boston, collaborative social software provider Socialtext announces Socialtext Free 50 to entice companies on the fence to integrate enterprise social networking into their organizations. This new freemium model offers online collaboration tools such as micro-blogging, social networking, personalized home pages, and a wiki workspace.
 
“Many of our customers take a practical approach of workgroup use, before widespread transformative deployments,” said Eugene Lee, CEO of Socialtext. “These new offerings enable more businesses to discover a new way of working without barriers and decide when to engage with us to grow revenue, strengthen customer relationships and adapt to change. Socialtext continues to exercise its Enterprise 2.0 leadership with a ‘freemium’ SaaS business model, while expanding the power of its social software platform.”
 
Features reserved for premium accounts that you won’t see in Socialtext Free 50 include multiple wiki workspaces, technical support, the ability to deploy Socialtext behind company firewalls, access to the SocialCalc collaborative spreadsheet, and obviously the ability to allow more than 50 users to access your company’s Socialtext account.