Wiki helps pass law in Utah
Wow, “this”:http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/wiki_deliberati.html is just fascinating. Congrats to Ross and the Socialtext crew for making this happen… it’s exciting to see such a wonderful example of civic engagement made more effective through the use of technology.
Update: Britt Blaser has some “background”:http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/?p=47 on how this came to be; it’s just so cool to see how this takes [...]
Socialtext relaunches beta, closes source
Press release is “here”:http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/050401aprilfool.html, I’m certain this will cause a stir…
Socialtext Workspace 1.5 released
We released the latest version of our hosted product yesterday, “Workspace 1.5″:http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/050207wikiapp.html. Eweek includes a “few more details”:http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1761565,00.asp about the release.
Socialtext named to EContent 100
Exciting news at Socialtext: we’ve been “named”:http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/041129econtent.html to the “EContent 100″:http://www.econtentmag.com/EContent100/CategoryIndex.aspx?CategoryID=2#Company214 as one of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Congrats to the team for a nice recognition of what we’re doing, and many thanks to the customers who make it possible to continue innovating in an important space.
Marty Schwimmer on business e-mail
Marty Schwimmer: “Email is becoming unusable as a business tool.”
Marty: it’s even worse than just commercial e-mail; “occupational spam”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/04/23/stopping_occupational_spam.php is an equally hard problem to solve. Give “Socialtext”:http://www.socialtext.com/ a try…
Socialtext closes Series A Round
I’m very excited to announce we “closed our series A round of funding today”:http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/040823seriesa.html with a mix of prior investors and new investors (most notably, “Omidyar Network”:http://www.omidyar.net/, the company founded by eBay founder “Pierre Omidyar”:http://pierre.typepad.com/pierre/2004/08/what_ive_been_u.html).
Special congrats to Ross who worked tirelessly to make this happen, in addition to his normal CEO duties like, oh, running [...]
Blogging from Monterey
I’m in Monterey, at the “Red Herring Spring”:http://www.socialtext.net/red-herring-spring/ conference, and am blogging from the RH100 presentations. This is great stuff — CEOs from some remarkable companies are presenting about their company strategy. I only wish I understood half of what was being discussed.
If you go to “Recent changes”:http://www.socialtext.net/red-herring-spring/index.cgi?action=changes&changes=recent you can see my recent posts, as [...]
Stopping occupational spam
KC’s Prevent Reply All/Forward in mail to other Outlook users.
Now when the people you sent the mail to open it, the “Reply All” and “Forward” buttons will not be available on the toolbar. Similarly, the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+F will not work.
Our corporation often ends up falling into the same email list pit of dispair [...]
Marc Canter wants to know…
Marc Canter wants to know “who has the most active workspaces”:http://blogs.it/0100198/2004/03/18.html#a2415. He has three.
Can you beat him?
Socialtext praise
With my first week at Socialtext under my belt, I am happy to report that it’s as exciting as I’d hoped it would be. As with any growing company, there is a lot that needs to be done (and done yesterday) — but that’s part of what keeps the juices flowing. I’m continuing to get [...]
