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Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by k-mcgrady »

kyllo wrote: post #17

I wonder what it would take to get a passable OSS substitute to Facebook going in this space. You could host it on your own server(s) the same way you can host your own internal wiki that looks/feels just like Wikipedia. Why don't we have this already?

Can you not do that with Diaspora?

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Post by jcrei »

I'm very happy to see Lars Rasmussen releasing something new again. He's the (ex-Googler) guy behind Google Maps and the much loved (and perhaps also hated) Google Wave project. Google wave was (in my mind) one of those "ahead of it's time" projects when it was released. I'm not aware of any significant contributions he has had since his time in Facebook. So is this his first?

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by forgottenpass »

xedarius wrote: post #8

I couldn't work out from the article if you could run Facebook on your own servers or not. This will be a massive hurdle to jump if they really want to sell to enterprise.

I see them targeting the market of businesses too small to run their own communication infrastructure. The people using google docs and hangouts because it's already there. Or Office 365 because they can't/don't want to host internally.

Why would anyone already running their own communication want internal Facebook? Because email lists aren't hip enough?

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by howeyc »

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers.

Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat

OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents

VOIP Services - Company communications

All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really).

I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but I'm in a shrinking minority I assume.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by vishalzone2002 »

Yammer was twitter for work. Facebook rolled out its own version before anyone else does. But thats pretty much it. The very fact of facebook having an addiction component will work against it.

I think managers would think twice before introducing a collaborating software where team would end up spending more time than actual work. I think for this very reason softwares like work wikis, sharepoint are so successful.

Also from user point of view, I do not see myself using the same tool at work and then at home. Hopefully they have a radically different UI rather than just changing the logo with companies logo.

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