links for 2010-06-17

Thursday, June 17, 2010 by Angela Ashenden

Socialtext Announces Socialtext Connect, Creating a Social Layer in the Enterprise Architecture

Interesting annuncement from Socialtext – apparently following in the footsteps of Salesforce.com's Chatter application by aggregating enterprise application events and notifications, as well as content from web apps such as Twitter and Google Buzz – and presumably delivering these alongside the user-generated status updates from Socialtext Signals. Still early days as it's only in beta at the moment, but it's interesting that despite mentioning how you could surface app events from e.g. CRM and ERP apps, it's SharePoint and Lotus Connections that the company have targeted for their first out-of-the-box connectors…

(tags: socialtext collaboration microblogging)

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