Worklight 3.1 publishes business widgets on Facebook, iPhone, and everywhere else
There are a lot of companies trying to offer enterprise versions of popular consumer products — for example, “Twitter for business” startup Yammer, not to mention the countless “social networking for business” products. But a New York company called WorkLight is taking a different approach: instead of building a business product that’s like Facebook, it’s bringing business tools onto Facebook itself. And with the release of version 3.1 of its application platform, it’s starting to… Continue Reading
Worklight, Small World Labs try to crack the enterprise market for social software
What exactly do buzzwords like “Enterprise 2.0″ and “enterprise social software” actually mean? Is there an opportunity for startups to build software for businesses and other organizations that can take advantage of the easy communication of blogs, wikis, bookmarking, social networks and other “Web 2.0″ features?
Traditional enterprise companies like Microsoft, Oracle and its new purchase BEA have begun experimenting with offering these types of features — despite it still not being clear what the overall… Continue Reading