Anybody else having issues with the video on their main page? It doesn't load for me on Chrome.
Facebook at Work
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Re: Facebook at Work
#42I'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…
This is just fucking hilarious.
You know what gives me reliable notifications? You know what lets me view my attachments in whatever way I want? You know what lets me organize/tag/correlate my messages the way I want?
OMG ITS EMAIL.
In 3 years everything is going to bitch about IM the same way they bitch about email. And they're the ones that asked for it.
Re: Facebook at Work
#43Never has it been more apparent that morality doesn't come into the equation for Facebook.
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Re: Facebook at Work
#44I 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 will not use a product supported by advertising for internal communication.
It does not.
Re: Facebook at Work
#45As @voynich61 has mentioned, there's something incredibly morally murky about this product. The first thing that came to my head is stalking. Before Facebook "Work", the workplace was relatively safe. As long as you don't provide any info, such as phone numbers, personal email address, and had some pretty good privacy settings, you could deflect some potential stalkers at work. For the sake of the argument, I'm going…
Wow. Where do you work that you worry about things like that? Why do you continue to work there?!
Re: Facebook at Work
#46As @voynich61 has mentioned, there's something incredibly morally murky about this product. The first thing that came to my head is stalking. Before Facebook "Work", the workplace was relatively safe. As long as you don't provide any info, such as phone numbers, personal email address, and had some pretty good privacy settings, you could deflect some potential stalkers at work. For the sake of the argument, I'm going…
You create a new account. It's mentioned in the first line of marketing copy.
> It's easy to get started. You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers.
Re: Facebook at Work
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who use Slack do.
Slack charges. When is "Work" going to end up like Parse?
Maybe they killed Parse because it wasn't all about keeping people in their walled garden, and enabled people to duplicate features of facebook. It could be in line with what they did with FBML & facebook apps.
Re: Facebook at Work
#48I thought this was new, but apparently they announced working on it around June 2014 and even had the apps around since early 2015 which would explain how the Google Play app already has 60k reviews... Discovered this while looking for comparisons to Salesforce's Chatter: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/facebookwork-vs-salesforce-ch...
Re: Facebook at Work
#49I 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.
They're probably thinking that since so many people are familiar with facebook's UX, it can become the baseline for an office collaboration tool (one with a very small learning curve).
Re: Facebook at Work
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What company uses LI for internal communication?
While there's nothing explicit in the demo video, screenshots like the following infer LinkedIn like behavior between people:
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