Wanted to let people know about a blog we've just launched: the FASTforward Blog.

Conceived and produced by Corante and sponsored by Fast Search & Transfer as a companion to their upcoming conference, the blog convenes, for at least the next two months, a top flight crew of leading thinkers and doers for an active and spirited discussion on the next generation of enterprise software applications and issues.

Amongst our contributors are many familiar faces from the enterprise-related blog space including Bill Ives, Jim McGee, Joe McKendrick, Jerry Bowles, Rod Boothby, Kathleen Gilroy, Euan Semple, George Dearing and others.

In addition to the blog, we'll be running interviews, podcasts, and Skypecasts with leading figures from the field as well as with some of the speakers and participants who'll be involved in the event.

Visit the blog, where the discussion is well underway, at FASTforwardblog.com. And click here, to find out more about FAST's FASTforward conference - speakers include Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, John Battelle, Ray Lane, and many other leading players in the Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 space.