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Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

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Post by bobbles »

tschellenbach wrote: post #33

Interesting, there is definitely a market for this. Some of our customers at getstream.io use the API to build their own Facebook style apps for within their organizations. Building your own in-house social networks is of course quite a bit of work. Facebook should be much easier to get up and running. The pricing seems really low for small firms and extremely expensive for larger ones. That sounds like a challenging…

My company was part of the prerelease program and its basically just like using a more professional version of Facebook. Like linkedin but internal only.

it's actually great to have a more social way of catching up with people. The main driver for us was pulling all the 'coffee machine is broken' type emails out of our 'work system' (email) and also let people share pictures of their pets and different social events going on around the world.

Plus the advantage is that there was massive uptake super quickly since everyone already had built in knowledge of how to use it from facebook.

Plus I can say stuff on there without my parents commenting on every single post i ever make which is nice...

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#102

Post by cheriot »

Pamar wrote: post #67
cheriot wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was made in London. At least until someone triggers article 50 it's more European than American :) More to your point, the article mentions getting the privacy/security certifications that companies look for. And if you're paying for the product, there's not the privacy concerns as when you are the product, etc. I'm actually impressed with this thing so far.

I am in Germany. The NSA debacle made a lot of important people quite unhappy here, not to mention the current tensions between DBank & DOJ and so on... - so I am afraid we would interpret this a bit like Apple's labels, except in this case we would read: Designed in NSA - Made in UK .

Is there an IT angle on the DBank/DOJ story or is this just anti-USA?

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#103

Post by tschellenbach »

bobbles wrote: post #101
tschellenbach wrote: post #33

Interesting, there is definitely a market for this. Some of our customers at getstream.io use the API to build their own Facebook style apps for within their organizations. Building your own in-house social networks is of course quite a bit of work. Facebook should be much easier to get up and running. The pricing seems really low for small firms and extremely expensive for larger ones. That sounds like a challenging…

My company was part of the prerelease program and its basically just like using a more professional version of Facebook. Like linkedin but internal only. it's actually great to have a more social way of catching up with people. The main driver for us was pulling all the 'coffee machine is broken' type emails out of our 'work system' (email) and also let people share pictures of their pets and different social events…

sounds pretty good, think i'll try it out at some point :)

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#104

Post by pmlnr »

https://workplace.fb.com/trust

Sure. Also:

    Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
    Zuck: Just ask
    Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
    [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
    Zuck: People just submitted it.
    Zuck: I don't know why.
    Zuck: They "trust me"
    Zuck: Dumb fucks
Just keep remembering that as well, please.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#105

Post by themodelplumber »

pmlnr wrote: post #104

https://workplace.fb.com/trust Sure. Also: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks Just keep remembering that as well, please.

So does the Mark Zuckerberg of today still have the ability to directly access that kind of information? What, if any, safeguards are in place? Asking because it seems kind of an obvious issue.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#106

Post by _RPM »

pmlnr wrote: post #104

https://workplace.fb.com/trust Sure. Also: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks Just keep remembering that as well, please.

This is equivalent to what Trump was caught saying about women.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#107

Post by nickpsecurity »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #81
EliRivers wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, your competitor, will pay FB for your conversations. I expect we can work out a way to do it that isn't so brazen.

But if that's possible in any way FaceBook and the company paying would be subject to breaking many corporate espionage laws in addition to destroying FaceBook's enterprise business IN ITS ENTIRETY should it be found out. Seems like an insane amount of risk for such a very tiny reward.

Yet, each of the major carriers and RSA did it for the NSA in exchange for $30-(80?) million. Happened at plenty of other companies with or without nation state involvement. The big ones are still in business.

Besides, what does the EULA say on the product? Their EULA usually says something along the lines of they can do whatever they want with your data. I'm interested to see if anyone sees something similar in the enterprise agreement.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#108

Post by waspleg »

kikkak wrote: post #9
heydenberk wrote: post #3

I dread one day having to limit job searches to places that don't make me use my private social networking account to do business.

I dream of the day where I'm not followed around by my data exhaust. It's just wishful thinking. I feel that the marginal benefit of social media systems has peaked. It's begun to make interactions less human and less personal ; the gain over using email is negligible. I don't need to see your picture, I just want to know when I'll have VPN access.

I'd wager a large portion of the readers of this site are too young to know what it as like to not have your entire life under 24/7 surveillance.

I hope the back lash is enormous. Security = Privacy = Democracy; you can't have one without the others.

Chilling effects brought on by "you should be careful what you say (and to whom)" is the death of freedom of speech, and with it "free" society.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#109

Post by nickpsecurity »

pmlnr wrote: post #100
j2bax wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a completely separate account not tied to your personal Facebook account.

Lol. The moment you add a picture, it's tied together.

Yep. They had an automatic system for doing that in the past for people who used the product and people who didn't but were in photos uploaded by users. I still don't have a picture on Facebook with my name for that reason. They've figured out a lot about me anyway. The many mistakes are hilarious, though.

Re: Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses

#110

Post by trendia »

pmlnr wrote: post #104

https://workplace.fb.com/trust Sure. Also: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks Just keep remembering that as well, please.

I just want to give a shoutout to the subreddit "Stallman was right." [0]

Because if there's one thing that Stallman has consistently predicted, it's that if you give your private data to a firm, they will absolutely use it however they want.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight

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