Socialcast News & Articles

Business collaboration specialists, Socialcast (news, site) is trying to give users the features they want while matching the security demands of enterprise with its business social platform. Which is why we see a new version of their solution available today.

Socialcast (news, site) seems to've echoed various vendors' recent-and very successful-forays into providing solutions for revealing what goes on behind the scenes of enterprise microblogging.

Their new analytics software, Social Business Intelligence (SBI), gauges social activity within company walls and scrutinizes interactivity patterns between users. Such deep digging allows the tool to cut out the useless chitchat and focus solely on valuable discussions.

Wannabe Socialcast (news, site) developers, the time has come to roll up your sleeves.

The team behind the collaboration software platform has announced that the official Socialcast Developer API is now available to every Socialcast network.

The API does what you’d expect an API to do: it allows developers to dream up and create new functionality in the form of native clients or internal applications. Additionally, partner companies can now share their Socialcast activity streams with each other. The cross-enterprise collaboration translates to something like Yammer, or Twitter for the enterprise, although Socialcast Founder and CEO Timothy Young claims it does not aim to be so.

For those who already have a Socialcast account, the API can be found by logging into your community, clicking on “Tools” in the top navigation bar, and then “integrate with the Socialcast developer API” at the bottom of the list. As for the newbies, you can sign up for Socialcast here.

Not to be outdone by the other Enterprise 2.0 vendor announcements during the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week, IBM (news, site) not only unveils the SaaS version of their social computing solution, LotusLive Connections, but they also take home an award for it.

In the mood for some free stuff? Of course you are. Surely banking on the idea that everyone loves to get something for nothing, Socialcast (news, site) recently announced a treat for their users: free networks.

Corporate social networks, that is. Effective immediately, employees of any company can visit Socialcast’s website and join their company’s private community using their corporate email address. Meanbwhile, administrators can enjoy free rights such as user access management and customization. The offering also comes with a handful of new features for added pizzazz.

Take your enterprise community to new venues with Socialcast. They have released some new accessibility features to their social networking and micro-blogging platform, including access via Gmail and your iPhone.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks’ SM news in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

• Google Chrome, (because yes, it IS a social media story).
• Twitter hits 99.x% Uptime
• The Scandalous Shock of Disgraceful Digg’s Bribery Scandal
• Socialmedian does Newsstreaming as Lifestreaming
• Shozu Social App hit iPhone
• Socialcast 3.0: Social Networking in the Enterprise

Google Chrome

Google launched a new browser this week. You may have heard something about it. It’s great, far as we can tell (here’s our take on Chrome), and is tailor-made for running rich web applications, because it runs RIAs in seperate tabs in their own environment, or something. Which FireFox and IE do not. Which is why FF 3 crashes like a mutha and why IE usually runs like a 3-legged dog.

Socialcast has finally released the latest version of its enterprise social networking service. This SaaS-based service holds a new surprise along with all the features we told you about last month — a self-service delivery model.

Corporate social networking provider Socialcast has released a number of enhancements to its SaaS-based social networking solution. Enhancements designed to capture employee knowledge and share it with everyone.

Back when cell phones were only phones and not mobile devices, many of us noticed that too many interfaces were poorly supported or not supported at all. Now with the advent of the iPhone and other savvy mobile devices, users are able to enjoy mobile-friendly interfaces and applications.

This concept is not lost on FatWire Software, a leading web content management provider. They recently announced that they will resell, service and support netomat, Inc.’s Mobility Server to complement FatWire’s web content management and Web 2.0 collaboration solutions.

According to the analyst firm CMS Watch, enterprise content management vendors are failing to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

They claim that, after evaluating a number of ECM technologies, these products are “lacking key security pre-requisites” and are “ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)”.

Ouch! say the big boys leaning forward in their leather massage chairs.