Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Published: 19 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT
Salesforce.com on Wednesday announced a social-networking service called Salesforce Chatter for its customers' in-house operations, giving a corporate flavour to a technology that has largely been for personal use.
Salesforce Chatter lets employees set up profiles to connect with co-workers, issue status updates to say what they are up to, and subscribe to feeds from people and from applications. Also for collaboration, it lets people join groups to share updates and content. The service also integrates with today's two popular social-networking services, Twitter and Facebook.
Chief executive Marc Benioff announced the service in San Francisco at the company's Dreamforce conference, which he said drew 19,000 attendees. Salesforce.com is a high-profile proponent of the idea of web-based services, broadly called cloud computing.
For more on this story, see Salesforce to offer social networking for companies on CNET News.
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