
The new developerWorks community spaces offer special areas where members can interact on business trends.
The platform currently offers 12 topics and business trends, such as software-as-a-service or service oriented architectures.
Big Blue also unveiled a service where partners can share profile information describing their business.
The service will help the partners to find subject matter experts and use web 2.0 tools such as social book-marking and blogs to interact and forge relationships.
IBM hopes that the collaboration tools will foster the creation of new software applications and forge new partnerships.