Intronetworks gets Virgin Galactic contract, funding from Adobe

Intronetworks gets Virgin Galactic contract, funding from Adobe

There are at least 41 companies that offer services to help you create your own social network. IntroNetworks differentiates itself by analyzing data about members of a network and telling each user which other users they have the most in common with — something that professional social network Visible Path and only half a dozen other competitors also do.

For example, Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceship tour to be unveiled later this year, will use introNetworks… Continue Reading

IntroNetworks, lets you know more about employees, customers

IntroNetworks, lets you know more about employees, customers

Santa Barbara-based IntroNetworks has raised $2.7 million in a first round of capital to develop a social-networking service for companies and events.

There are a ton of these business-oriented social networks, from Visible Path, to Five Across and Facebook’s corporate offering — along with blogging and wiki software, all making headway in replacing or supplementing existing intranet directories that most big companies already have.

Chief exec Mark Sylvester says about 500,000 people have used the service,… Continue Reading