A few people at our company signed up for Hall and invited others, causing a runaway chain of invitation reminders that drove our entire team nuts. Not a great way to get introduced to a product.
Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
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We invested in building a Single Page Application (SPA) which means when you use Hall, click around, the page never refreshes. This helps our customers get things done insanely fast. Imagine if Gmail was a website and not a web app, that's what other enterprise apps feel like IMO. Also, Hall is one of the few enterprise companies that has a true SPA. We ended up building a highly customized framework on top of Backbo…
I'm really not trying to be a dick here. Why do I care about a single page application and how does that make your app 'six times faster than unnamed other solutions'? I fail to see the connection to GMail (I thought you want to move away from the 'why not just email?')? "A true SPA"? I failed to find out what 'SPA' means [1], I thought SLA first but got confused. Nothing personal, but your reply didn't help a bit fo…
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#33How is Hall's "real-time" real-timier than those of Yammer's or a number of other enterprise activity-stream apps? Its pretty much a given that an activity stream app will use an socketi.io-ish messaging systme for real-time updates, some sort of APN service for mobile notifications and a visual tool for in-web-app notifications. What does Hall bring to the table that differentiates it from other Activity stream[1] a…
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#34* I can have permanent group chats in Skype
* 1-on-1 chat
* Skype is supported in all devices
* I can share files
Am I missing something?
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I'm really not trying to be a dick here. Why do I care about a single page application and how does that make your app 'six times faster than unnamed other solutions'? I fail to see the connection to GMail (I thought you want to move away from the 'why not just email?')? "A true SPA"? I failed to find out what 'SPA' means [1], I thought SLA first but got confused. Nothing personal, but your reply didn't help a bit fo…
Developers probably aren't the intended audience. Yammer, Chatter, Hall, etc are going after enterprise customers.
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#36About time! Besides the hype & price of Yammer, it really sucks at real-time comms for teams smaller than 5-6. I have never had a chance to use it with a bigger team but at that size they have abysmal state management - if you have more than 1 conversation && use more than 1 device = notification_hell. Its just silly how badly they manage this stuff. Just discovered Hall earlier today and so far, so good! Good job @b…
This has led me to believe that if they're not able to use social features from within the software they're already using (that's already connected to our existing data), they probably won't use them to any effective capacity at all. We run a homebrew CRM, but I don't think slapping a chat or a file system into it will suddenly fix the problem. That said, I think company culture has a lot to do with it too; getting up and talking to people and scheduling meetings with them is highly encouraged here.
That all said, Jive's business enterprise stuff is probably the best in this arena right now because of how much you can do with it and how extensible it is, but I've been asking for us to switch for two years to no avail because management doesn't see the value in constant, but passive, streams of information.
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Hi I'm just wondering what did you use to package your webapp for desktops? Thanks!
stokanic, we started with adobe air which was a quick way to test our hypothesis early on that a desktop app would increase retention. We have since moved on to building native experience w xcode.