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Glassboard Group Messaging

Private group messaging apps are hot. The Monday after Skype acquired year-old startup GroupMe for a reported $85 million, a team of innovators who lead the ultimately unsuccessful but very important charge to popularize RSS feeds has regrouped to build and launch a new group messaging app called Glassboard. Glassboard launched in the iTunes…

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2011 in Review

Top Trends of 2011: Group Messaging

This week we're running a 5-part series of posts looking back on the significant trends of 2011. Today we're reviewing group messaging, the hot trend at this year's SXSW festival. Group messaging started out as a battle between several startups, but over the past few months it's turned into a fascinating Google vs. Facebook vs. Microsoft…

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Groupware

Integrating Web 2.0 with Traditional Software: MindTouch Launches Contextual Help CMS

Technical documentation platform provider MindTouch tonight announced an interesting new feature in its flagship product: MindTouch Contextual Help. The feature offers the ability to integrate collaboratively written documentation inline into web and desktop application interfaces, instead of only publishing it as a standalone document…

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Groupware

GroupMe Buys Sensobi: Elastic Groups on the Horizon?

You know a company is all grown up and ready to take on the world when it makes its first acquisition. Well, fine, maybe raising $10.6 million last January counts too, but today leading group messaging app GroupMe announced that it had acquired small application developer Sensobi for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will bring Sensobi's…

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Groupware

Seesmic Adds Open Source Networks

Open source social network framework Elgg (like WordPress for Facebooks) is now supported by social media client app Seesmic, according to an announcement on the Seesmic blog this morning. With the addition of the Elgg plug-in, Seesmic users can now view and update multiple Elgg networks in the same interface they use for Twitter, Facebook, Ning…

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Our Network is Alive

The British novelist Ian McEwan said, "The naming of what is there is what is important." But there is a thing, or an idea, a system or network, that we live with every day, that we live in, that we, in point of fact, are, which has no name. When apprehending and recognizing something new, we humans name it. Some say we name things in order to…

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Business

Trumba Offers Custom Objects to Calendars

Trumba, the shared calendar and events communications software company has added the ability for users to attach "custom objects" to their Web calendars and other websites. These "objects" are in essence tables that unfold graphically, keyed to links, or can stand on their own as pages. Trumba's customers use the company's software to publish…

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Groupware

First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion

Mark Fletcher builds software, that's just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop making software. And it's not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples…

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Gina Trapani to Join Productivity Company Pelotonics As Advisor

Six months after announcing her decision to step down from four years of daily responsibilities at productivity mega-blog Lifehacker, Gina Trapani will announce today that she is joining San Diego based Pelotonics to advise the company on both product development and marketing. Trapani's trusted voice has reviewed thousands of websites, services…

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Groupware

Backboard: Getting Feedback Made Easy

Backboard, a sophisticated online solution for gathering feedback about various types of documents, came out of public beta this morning. Backboard allows users to upload and comment on standard Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, but it also supports most standard graphics formats, including PhotoShop, and gives users the ability to mark up and…

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Glassboard Group Messaging

Top Trends of 2011: Group Messaging

Integrating Web 2.0 with Traditional Software: MindTouch Launches Contextual Help CMS

GroupMe Buys Sensobi: Elastic Groups on the Horizon?

Seesmic Adds Open Source Networks

Our Network is Alive

Trumba Offers Custom Objects to Calendars

First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion

Gina Trapani to Join Productivity Company Pelotonics As Advisor

Backboard: Getting Feedback Made Easy