SLATES is an acronym that stands for "Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signals".
Dion Hinchcliffe defines SLATES as follows in http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=71
"SLATES describes the combined use of effective enterprise search and discovery, using links to connect information together into a meaningful information ecosystem using the model of the Web, providing low-barrier social tools for public authorship of enterprise content, tags to let users created emergent organizational structure, extensions to spontaneously provide intelligent content suggestions similar to recommendation system, and signals to let users know when enterprise information they care about has been published or updated, such as when a corporate RSS feed of interest changes."
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