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| Nov 6, 2016 | Facebook’s Workplace brings the sexy back to collaboration | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook has finally gone live with its just-for-... |
| Nov 6, 2016 | Facebook’s Workplace brings the sexy back to collaboration | Facebook has finally gone live with its just-for-business product, Workplace. For a few dollars or less per user, per month, companies can give employees access to a locked-down, private social network that feels like, well, Facebook. That’... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Using social collaboration to deliver better IT visibility | For enterprises to stay on top of their IT and in particular to deal with incidents they need to be able to navigate through high volumes of information and work out what’s important.
In order that operations teams can minimize time lost fr... |
| Jan 25, 2015 | Facebook at Work: Enterprise Social Networks | Efficiency and spending time on social networks may sound like two contradictory terms, but Facebook actually wants companies to believe its latest offering will be able to achieve this. Facebook at Work is the latest effort of the social n... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work | Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Facebook at Work today, but will businesses actually want to use it?
Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade, with companies like... |
| Oct 23, 2014 | Shake-up at Socialcast: Key employees leave after VMware reorg | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
VMware appears to be searching for a viable strat... |
| Oct 23, 2014 | Shake-up at Socialcast: Key employees leave after VMware reorg | VMware appears to be searching for a viable strategy for its Socialcast social-networking software, and key people on the team have left, VentureBeat has learned.
Known primarily as a vendor of software for big companies that run their own ... |
| Sep 1, 2012 | How Machines Will Use Social Networks To Gain Identity, Develop Relationships And Make Friends | Activity streams and social networks now represent a fundamental aspect of the modern application. We use activity streams on Twitter to converse in 140 characters or less. We use the “like” gesture on Facebook to show approval for an updat... |
| Aug 23, 2012 | AtTask Raises $13 Million For Software As A Service That Combines Social Tech With Traditional Project Management | Utah-based AtTask has raised $13 million for its collaborative work management software as a service (SaaS) according to documents filed with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Names of the investors were not disclosed.
AtTask... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | New Mobile Socialcast, Sliderocket Clients | Socialcast and Sliderocket, which are both now a part of VMware, announced today new versions of their mobile clients for iPad and Android devices. Sliderocket is an app for mobile presentations and now offers a free iPad Player app. You do... |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Infographics: Why Your Company’s Intranet is Failing | Intranets are supposed to be a source of information that employees can use to be more effective in their jobs. They’re supposed to be but the fact is, intranets tend to be unloved and ignored. Socialcast has pulled together an infographic ... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | What’s Wrong with Enterprise Software Anyway? | Constellation Research CEO and principal analyst R “Ray” Wang recently gave a talk called “Why Enterprise Software Sucks and How Disruptive Technologies Converge to Change This” at the AMPLIFYfestival. It’s a good talk introducing many of t... |
| May 31, 2011 | VMware Acquires Enterprise Microblogging Platform Socialcast | VMware has acquired social communications platform Socialcast. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Socialcast, which raised nearly $10 million in funding, combines a corporate activity stream that ties into CRM and ERP systems with... |
| May 31, 2011 | VMware Acquires Enterprise Microblogging Company Socialcast | VMware announced today that it will acquire Socialcast, an enterprise microblogging and social network software-as-a-service. The move expands VMware’s software-as-a-service portfolio, which also includes Zimbra, Mozy and SlideRocket. VMwar... |
| May 10, 2011 | Yammer Ups Its Enterprise Game with NetSuite Integration | Yammer surged in popularity last year. According to former Yammer Vice President of Marketing Steve Apfelberg, the company experienced triple-digit growth. It also expanded its features beyond just microblogging by adding features such as d... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Beyond Quora: 9 Q&A Services for the Enterprise | We’ve discovered several more vendors since we first looked at the enterprise questions and answers space earlier this year. It’s a young market, but one that’s heating up quick. There are pure Q&A vendors like the ones we mentioned bef... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | Convofy Opens Its Freemium Service to the Public Today | Convofy, the new enterprise collaboration platform we covered last month, opens to the public today. It’s launching using a freemium model similar to Yammer‘s, so you can try it out for free.
We got a demo from CEO Faizan Buzdar yesterday, ... |
| Mar 30, 2011 | Network Effects and Pricing Models in the Social Enterprise | Like any other social network, the value of an enterprise social network is tied to the number of active users. In general, the more users the more value – more knowledge shared, more questions answered and more connections made. In this ca... |
| Feb 11, 2011 | 15 Enterprise Products in 30 Words | As part of the Enterprise Startup Spotlight I’ve asked each submitter to provide a one sentence explanation of the company and an explanation of how it’s different from the competition. I’m beginning to think I should have collapsed both of... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | TIBCO’s tibbr May Be the Enterprise 2.0 Solution You’ve Been Waiting For | TIBCO‘s enterprise 2.0 offering tibbr has been a long time in the making. We first covered it in Oct. 2009. It was finally released from beta today, and the reaction has been positive. It seems that TIBCO took its time and got the product r... |
| Jan 13, 2011 | 3 Young Companies That Knocked It Out of the Park in 2010 | We take it with a grain of salt at this time of year when companies contact us to say its annual revenues showed triple digit growth.
It’s far more insightful if we have a bit more context such as how its management team is shaping. That’s ... |
| Dec 17, 2010 | Calculating the ROI of Social Technologies in the Work World [Infographic] | The returns on investment for social technologies is often what stumps people.
But measuring the ROI of these technologies has to be done in order to get some understanding of how it is engaging people and correlating to the overall organiz... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2010 | This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking “how?” instead of “why?” Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new products and existing vendors released new versions with innovative... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Facebook Moves into New Territory and the Telcos Take Notice | The Facebook news yesterday about its new messaging platform is raising questions for the telecommunications giants about what they have to do in face of emerging competition from the social networks.
It’s a critical time for the telcos. Al... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | 365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides | Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Socialcast founder Tim Young detailing how he raised 3 rounds totaling $10M in VC money in a year’s time with a 5-slide deck. This was originally published at “Knowledge Is Social.”
“I have a ... |
| Oct 23, 2010 | Q&A with Socialcast: What is the State of Activity Streams? | We are trying some new ways to provide a bit more depth to our coverage. You may notice we are packaging posts to explore topics a bit with interviews, profiles and resources that we hope will give a deeper perspective about cloud computing... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | 2 Ways to Bring Activity Streams to Any App | Well, almost any browser based app anyway. Socialcast announced today a new product called Socialcast Reach. Reach will bring Socialcast streams into SharePoint or any other application that supports HTML and JavaScript. Socialcast is tryin... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Socialcast 'Reach' Extends Activity Streams To Outside Business Applications | Enterprise microblogging platform Socialcast is extended its data to outside applications with the launch of a new set of extensions called ‘Socialcast Reach.’ The new feature allows businesses to integrate Socialcast conversations within o... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Hype Cycle 2010 and the Enterprise | Gartner released its Hype Cycles 2010 report in August, and I’ve been meaning to post about it ever since. Audrey recently covered it from a cloud computing angle Marshall just covered it from a consumer perspective. So I thought it was abo... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | IBM Lotus Notes Takes a New Turn in its Long Historical Run | We wonder if Ray Ozzie ever thought that he would someday looking from Microsoft’s executive suite to see IBM release his Lotus Notes creation into the cloud.
That’s what IBM did today. Lotus Notes is now as much a cloud platform as it has ... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Seesmic Enters the Enterprise | Seesmic is entering a new phase by offering SaaS services through its platform.
This past week, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and Seesmic Founder Loic LeMeur showed the integration with the SaaS service and the consumer application.
It’s ... |
| Aug 15, 2010 | Facebook's Monica Keller Joins Socialcast As Director Of Engineering | Facebook Activity Stream software architect and Open Standards advocate Monica Keller is joining the engineering team at enterprise software startup Socialcast.
Keller will be assuming the role of Director of Engineering at Socialcast, whic... |
| Aug 6, 2010 | 10 great alternatives to Google Wave | Real-time collaboration app Google Wave was officially added to the dead pool this week. Despite plenty of hype and excitement, it failed to attract the adoption that Google hoped for. The site itself is expected to stay up through the end ... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | Jive Gets $30 Million and the Market Sees a Glimpse of What’s to Come | In preparation for what looks like an IPO, Jive Software announced yesterday it had raised $30 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. It’s a funding story of relative significance that documents one company’s rise to prominence ... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Open-Source Microblogging Platform StatusNet Launches Desktop Client | StatusNet released today a cross-platform desktop client for its open-source microblogging platform – the same foundation that powers the Twitter alternative identi.ca. Windows, Mac, and Linux users can download it here. It features support... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Socialtext Brings the Twitter Annotations Spec into the Enterprise | Socailtext is adopting Twitter annotations for a new service it is calling Socailtext Connect. The service is a method for connecting legacy apps by surfacing events that appear in an activity stream.
The service, now in beta, uses the work... |
| May 26, 2010 | BroadVision: A 1990s Leader Making its Way in a New World | A natural curiosity surfaces when a company from a different era starts using API’s and leveraging the cloud. It shows how fast the world is changing as Web oriented architectures become more predominant.
Mastercard, Blockbuster and Pitney ... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Socialcast Secures $8M in Series B Funding | Socialcast, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an enterprise collaboration and activity stream platform, has secured $8m in Series B funding.
Investors include Menlo Ventures and True Ventures.
The company plans to use the new capital to... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams | Realtime streams are quickly moving from the consumer Web to the enterprise. The constant flow of status updates, links, and shared items people are becoming accustomed to on Facebook and Twitter is finding its way into enterprise apps like... |
| Mar 3, 2010 | Socialtext 4.0 Launches With Groups, Better Search, And Activity Stream Filtering | There are a plethora of enterprise friendly collaboration platforms to choose from these days, with Yammer, Salesforce, Jive, Bantam Live, Socialcast, and others all vying for marketshare. All of the offerings are compelling but now more th... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2009 | 2009 may be remembered as the year that enterprises truly understood the importance of social software. This was manifested by the rise of enterprise collaboration services, cloud computing technologies and the growing importance of mobile ... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | A brief history of social network enterprise collaboration tools | Social networking has become an integral part of office life. These commercial tools – Facebook, Twitter, etc. – are being used by more than half of employees, according to one study. But some companies have taken a reactive stance against ... |
| Dec 4, 2009 | A brief history of social network enterprise collaboration tools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social networking has become an integral part of ... |
| Nov 5, 2009 | Microsoft To Offer Application Marketplace In Sharepoint 2010 | Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has been set for the marketplace lauch but it will evolve from “The Gallery” a featur... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Yammer Adds Microblogging to Microsoft Outlook & Windows Mobile | Yammer is a “Twitter for the enterprise” platform that (to our dismay) won TechCrunch50 last year. A year later the enterprise microblogging space is growing rapidly and Yammer is still moving forward, along with competitors like Socialcast... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | 15 Fluid Apps You Can Build for Your Business | Fluid is a simple application for creating site-specific browsers (SSBs) on your OSX desktop. Fluid definitely wasn’t the first SSB project and was inspired primarily by the Mozilla Prism project.
The advantage with an SSB is that you can t... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Enterprise Platform Socialcast Opens Up An API | Socialcast has released their official API today, opening up their real-time enterprise collaboration platform to developers for the first time.
Socialcast’s basic collaborative feature set isn’t in dire need of enhancement through an API. ... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | Socialcast: CEO’s Status Should Be Louder Than Yours | Socialcast, the enterprise microblogging platform, thinks that HR and C-level executives deserve extra recognition in the corporate status stream. Its new Broadcast Message feature gives announcements by higher-ups priority if they want it,... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | Bantam Live: The Ultimate Social, Real-Time CRM | Bringing social media features to enterprise-focused applications is all the rage these days. There’s Jive, Socialcast, and Cubetree, which all provide social media and networking applications for businesses. Bantam Live, an online workspac... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Socialcast Offers New Freemium Version Of Its FriendFeed For The Enterprise | True Ventures backed Socialcast is launching adopting the freemium model for its FriendFeed-like collaboration and social network SaaS for businesses. A finalist for the 2009 Crunchies Award for “Best Bootstrapped Startup,” Socialcast is a ... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | Socialcast raises $1M to help your company communicate | Socialcast, a startup that provides tools for communication within a company, has raised $1 million in funding from True Ventures.
In the announcement, True Ventures’ co-founder Phil Black cites Socialcast’s “impressive customer deployments... |
| Apr 7, 2009 |
Socialcast Confirms Round, But Headed North
| Irvine-based Socialcast has confirmed the firm's recent $1.4M funding, saying late Monday that the firm raised $1M in funding from True Ventures, along with $400,000 in angel investments. However, the firm also said in conjunction with the ... |
| Apr 6, 2009 |
Socialcast Gets $1.4M
| Irvine-based Socialcast, a developer of social networking software for businesses, has raised $1.4M, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the funding, which closed April 1st, have not been released, however, the firm n... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Enterprise Communications Software Socialcast Secures $1.4 million in Series A Funding | Socialcast, a social communication SaaS provider for enterprises, has secured $1.4 million in Series A funding from True Ventures and angel investors. True Ventures led the round with $1 million and angel investors contributed $400,000. Soc... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Dec 12, 2008 | Flipping the Friendfeed funnel: Too many information channels forcing private information aggregators? | Just as marketing requires multiple channels, information overload has led to multiple channels. IM, e-mail, twitter, Work twitter, wikis, Basecamp–all have different expectations and users.
But when will the enterprise hit too many channel... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Socialcast: Gritty Yammer Alternative | Yes there are profitable, self-funded SaaS product companies out there. They’re the ones we’re celebrating in our Gritty Entrepreneur series. To that end, we recently interviewed Timothy Young, CEO of Socialcast, which is in the “enterprise... |
| Welcoming FREEjit to the True Family | We are extremely excited to announce our recent investment in FREEjit, Sean Ellis‘ new stealth consumer startup.
Sean brings a wealth of marketing experience and is widely-known as one of the thought-leaders in the new ways of web marketin... |
| eBay acquires Milo | Today, eBay announced the acquisition of Milo, a True portfolio company. We are incredibly proud of what Jack, Ted, John, and the entire team at Milo created over the past two years. True led Milo’s Series A round in November of last year (... |
| VMWare Friends SocialCast! Congrats, Tim Young! | VMWare of Palo Alto Calif., has acquired SocialCast, a True portfolio company. Congratulations to Tim & Carrie Young! True led Series A funding in April, 2009 and I joined the board as part of the investment. In March 2010, the company ... |
| Steve Blank is Right About the Need for Lean VCs | I met Steve Blank for the first time a few weeks ago when he came to visit the Women 2.0 group at Pier 38. As someone who has long believed in the value of engaging one on one with customers, I have long respected and admired his work in cu... |
| Socializing Your Servers: Nodeable Raises Series A | Over the last couple of years, we have seen an accelerated movement around the socialization of the enterprise. Solutions such as Socialcast, in which we were early investors and which was recently sold to VMWare, have dramatically affected... |