Enterprise software company TIBCO is debuting a new version of its Yammer-clone Tibbr today. The newest version of the company’s social communications app includes geo-location capabilities called Tibbr GEO, which integrates the ‘check-in’ model in the enterprise. By incorporating location into Tibbr, the service wants to physical places into data hubs that can immediately stream [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2012 by admin
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Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0, a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform, which helps businesses with multiple social media accounts monitor the impacts of their content’s distribution, will now include the first production release of the company’s brand-new search technology, allowing customers to track content [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2012 by admin
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NewsGator. Those of us who were using RSS readers in the middle of the past decade most likely think of desktop app FeedDemon for Windows or desktop/mobile app NetNewsWire for Mac when we hear the name. But the company has spent the last several years turning itself into an enterprise networking company that competes with Jive, Salesforce Chatter, [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by admin
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Big consumer brands generate all sorts of consumer interest and expertise, but they’ve generally struggled to capitalize on these relationships to improve themselves. Lithium has been building itself into a market leader at solving this problem over the last ten years, offering white-label community sites and related products that allow brands to let users share [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by admin
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Digital media publisher Ziff Davis has acquired Toolbox.com, a social networking and knowledge exchange website for IT, HR and Finance professionals that has been around since the late nineties and was previously owned by a company called the Corporate Executive Board. Terms were not disclosed. For Ziff Davis, which was acquired and ‘relaunched’ as a [...]
Posted on January 3rd, 2012 by admin
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There are plenty of companies out there that help you monitor social media activity. Awe.sm has been going deeper into what’s really going on, providing a service that lets developers track all the crucial details of sharing activities, and automatically optimize their own services using that data. Having accumulated some 500 clients using its technology [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2011 by admin
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What matters first with a social media mistake is responding quickly, being transparent and demonstrating sincerity — all of which should follow a social gaffe committed in person and in public. Social media, though, introduces complications all its own: How you’ve been using it all along will also affect your ability to clean up after [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by admin
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“We’re at an inflection point”, eBay CEO John Donahoe said from the stage at Innovate, eBay’s brand new developer conference that launched today in San Francisco. “We’ll see more change in how consumers shop and pay in the next three years than we’ve seen in the last 15 years”. Donahoe’s prediction for the future came [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by admin
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Yammer, an enterprise social network and communications platform, has raised $17 million in new funding led by The Social+Capital Partnership, a new fund established by former Facebook Vice President Chamath Palihapitiya. Previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital and U.S. Venture Partners also participated in the round. Palihapitiya will have an observer’s seat on Yammer’s [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by admin
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The Web-based social performance platform Rypple is now available on the iPhone, the company is announcing today. Like the desktop-sized website, the new mobile application will allow managers to give real-time feedback to staff, provide coaching, track goals and publicly recognize colleagues for doing great work. The idea behind Rypple, which sees itself as a [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2011 by admin
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