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People who use Slack do.
Slack charges. When is "Work" going to end up like Parse?
The business functionality has already existed (since FB uses its own platform internally), so its comparatively minor in engineering effort.
I clicked this hopeful that Facebook had made a new product tailored to the needs of an office. Instead it seems like they recently decided that their existing product just happens to already be the perfect product for the office and rebranded it. I don't buy this at all, teams don't actually collaborate by sending each other green giraffe stickers.
I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add the…
To further your point, I think Facebook's timeline dynamic complements Slack quite nicely. Slack is great for broad, real-time communication, whereas Facebook posts can be much more hyper-focused and the conversation can revolve around the specific topic over a long period of time.
For example, we have a development channel in our Slack. I can go back and browse through the chat log, but it's awkward to contribute a suggestion or thought to a conversation that happened yesterday. Everyone has moved on. Not the case on FB.
Keeping Facebook for personal stuff, and Hipchat/Slack/Google for professional communication seems to work well for me.
I'm not being sarcastic (to the down voter). If you're an "A" talent, and are always used to working in certain type of environment, your view is quite skewed. How do you really know how a normal 30-people small business operate?
As of now it is simply Facebook with a different colour and focused on a group. Nothing special.
But I do think that Facebook will end up releasing a better collaboration feature to help integrate teams into Facebook At Work.
The reason I love Slack currently is the various apps and addons you can add, like the Github bot that posts when a pull request is created, or the Trello one that posts when someone completes a task.
If FB adds something like this (or better), I think they will grab a large portion of the market that isn't already dedicated to Slack.
Then it will slowly be improving features to steal Slack users after that.
I will not use a product supported by advertising for internal communication. The demographic data they would mine would be invaluable to them, but for a company would be unconscionable to give to a third party. Especially one so historically lax about privacy. You can mine my social life all you want, but when it comes to business, get the hell away.
I'm pretty sure this is going to be big. I think Slack is so successful not just because of the chat interface and the integrations, but because people reliably receive notifications, messages can contain attachments that are presented in a helpful way, and because it has good ways of organizing groups. Facebook has everything but the chat interface and the integrations. I don't see any reason for them not to add the…
But Slack is a chat service. I'm struggling to imagine what I would ever want to see in my Work News Feed.
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Slack charges. When is "Work" going to end up like Parse?
My guess is "Work" is a ploy to get Facebook un-blocked by corporate firewalls. The business functionality has already existed (since FB uses its own platform internally), so its comparatively minor in engineering effort.
No seriously, that's pretty brilliant.