LiveWorld is a company that does White Labeled Social Networks. you could say that it is like Ning but for companies. with the difference that the do everything for you. from the development to the management. that means they are not free and cost thousands of dollars a year to run.
They got a new thing to gain up agility called LiveBar. the livebar is a JavaScript Widget like Hab.la in the way it integrates to a blog in strip that reminds hidden until you call it up. the difference is that you are not running just a chat from IM service. in this case you are managing several community features from liveworld. things like contextual forums, contextual message boards and finally a contextual nanoblogging (twitter) like feature you could also equate as a contextual commenting. these are contextual because they change depending the are of the blog or the site you are seeing. so if you load it up in this very post if i were using it. it would show its community features based on the info at hand.
The Livebar is not just that contextual integration. it also got a suite of widgets to use in the site or in the sidebar of the site homepage or blog that will integrate with the information provided by the Livebar.
Sounds interesting. something i wonder when we will see directed for consumers from someone else now that LiveWorld had showed this. the liveBar is of course costly because it is managed, customized and tailored for the client. a client managed version of this would be useful if cheap, because seeing a free version is going to be quite difficult and if it appears it will still cost you putting someone to manage it.
LiveBar is still a interesting option to explore for high profile Blog Networks or companies a way to socialize their sites without changing the entire site and because it can grow and change without many problems too because of their use of widgetization.
via Techcrunch
