Facebook is building an enterprise product dubbed "FBWork"

http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/facebook-at-work/

by onedev • 12 years ago

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hawkice• 12 years ago

The major problems with email are over-communication and a lack of contextual priority. Facebook, of all companies, seems most likely to make these problems substantially worse.

001sky• 12 years ago

The way some corporate IP and Privacy policies are worded this would be something as an employee to avoid. The last thing you want to do is co-mingle behavioural information between work and personal/business.

dapulselabs2• 12 years ago

Meanwhile, if anyone is looking for this kind of solution right now, we are making a tool for companies and teams to collaborate and work better.

Check us out at: https://dapulse.com/

Torn2• 12 years ago

From reading the website, the impression I get of daPulse is a mix of project management tools with some social networking, viewed through the lense of task tracking.

What's the appeal over something like JIRA?

dapulselabs2• 12 years ago

AFAWK, JIRA is tasks for R&D, period.

daPulse is a collaboration tool, so R&D, design, marketing, management - everyone in the company uses it.

It is a bit like you described, PM + social + tasks, but it's designed to help everyone focus on the 'big things'. What it really does is gives everyone in the company one unified view of top priorities, so everyone's in focus on what's important and it gets everyone collaborating with zero e-mails.

sutterbomb• 12 years ago

Ironic that I see you guys advertising on FB all the time. Would love to chat about your marketing efforts there - from everything I've gathered it's a very difficult channel to scale for most businesses. (My email is in my profile if you're game.)

Dewie2• 12 years ago

Your friends made you join facebook. Then your mom made you quit it. And eventually your boss pulled you back in.

chrisgd• 12 years ago

The Godfather for the 21st Century

marknow• 12 years ago

+1 this... every time want to stop using FB, I get pressure from work and extended family who only communicate via FB.

snowbirdsong• 12 years ago

Must be a generational difference - my mom & granny are the two biggest reasons I stay on Facebook.

laoba• 12 years ago

Same here. Easiest way to share pics of the kids and keep them updated on our family since we live far away. Without my family on FB I would have left a while back.

Dewie2• 12 years ago

Or an age-thing.

chobo• 12 years ago

It's more of a boring cliche that when parents join some network or adopt some tech, you gotta ditch it.

asiekierka• 12 years ago

My friends made me join Facebook. My friends made me leave Facebook. Then Edward made me sure about my decision.

ihsw• 12 years ago

Yet another reason to avoid Facebook.

One has to wonder whether we will be doing our timesheet tracking/payroll in Facebook instead of $MISC_HR_SOLUTION.

bahman2000• 12 years ago

yammer could use some competition

beej19812• 12 years ago

Competition already exists. Almost every major enterprise software company minus Oracle. Microsoft does have Yammer, but IBM has Connections, Salesforce has Chatter, TIBCO has Tibbr. There is an independent, Jive. There are also upstarts like Slack.

Facebook would be entering a market that is already crowded. I'm not saying they couldn't make a big splash, only that it's not monopolized by Yammer.

If you give credence to IDC, IBM is actually the market share leader, with Jive in the second position and Microsoft in 3rd.

rffn• 12 years ago

I thought this exists already: http://www.salesforce.com

threeseed• 12 years ago

So basically they are making a competitor to Yammer. Hardly surprising given that they have been without a serious competitor for a while now.

Facebook could do some real damage there.

beej19812• 12 years ago

The space is actually quite crowded. According to IDC, IBM Connections leads the market, not Yammer.

Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP, JIVE, Tibco, VMWare etc. etc. etc. make competing products.

reagan83• 12 years ago

The IDC analysis report was based on market share of revenue, which placed IBM at the top of the list because IBM has done a great job finding customers to buy their product for more money than Jive & Yammer (aka: Microsoft).

Because social products are much more about engagement and usage vs sales, it would be applicable for IDC to include that metric and weight it heavily in rankings of social enterprise software packages.

cordite• 12 years ago

I did not know much about Yammer before this. As I looked it up, Microsoft is a parent company, so it makes sense that Yammer comes with Office 365 integration.

Reminds me a lot of the (buggy, modular, quirky) PHPFox (recently changed ownership name to moxi)

buro9• 12 years ago

Yammer appeared as a "Twitter within your organisation" solution that was basically free for individuals to use. Staff would sign up their team, and then use it like Twitter to keep their team up to date with whatever they were working on.

The money comes in when a team member leaves... as individuals sign up, the company had no means to deny the individual access to these little spaces. So the company would purchase some plan or other, and be able to manage enterprise access. As someone who used Yammer in the early days, this felt like an extortion play.

It was years before Microsoft purchased them, and somewhere around this time they had moved from short statuses to longer posts and various groups, files, etc... a real-time team collaboration space based around a stream of messages that started to look like "Facebook within your organisation". In many ways Yammer became what SharePoint should have been for the collaboration features.

That's the v. brief history of Yammer.

Darshu• 12 years ago

According to TC it's not yet clear if it's going to be a competitor to Yammer / Slack or to LinkedIn.

Either way, for a real collaboration tool that's more than a place to chat, and that has beautiful UI and is used by Uber and Fiverr and other cool startups with names ending with "er", try http://dapulse.com/

alttab• 12 years ago

Maybe not within companies, but potentially between companies. Oh wait, thats LinkedIn.

tootie• 12 years ago

https://honey.is/ exists. It's more like reddit for work though.

AznHisoka• 12 years ago

Facebook should build a social CRM.

Facebook should build a social analytics company, takes Hootsuite outta biz.

Facebook should build a social data company, take Gnip outta biz.

Heck, they should build a search engine (Not Graph Search, that thing is silly hard to learn how to use)

skizm5• 12 years ago

I don't get all the Facebook hate. Facebook only knows what you tell it. Put up a profile, don't post too much or at all, don't download the app (use the mobile version), don't use facebook connect, and don't use any facebook apps.

Just use it to keep in touch or get back in touch with people you otherwise would not be able to.

Sure, they're like any other company and will relentlessly push for your to share more and do whatever they can get away with to access more of your personal information, but that sort of comes with the territory. They are basically an identity management company after all.

pilif• 12 years ago

Facebook only knows what you tell it. Put up a profile, don't post too much or at all, don't download the app (use the mobile version), don't use facebook connect, and don't use any facebook apps.

And don't use any websites that use any of Facebooks third-party script embeds or use something like HTTPSwitchboard and make sure you never load anything from any present or future Facebook property.

Also don't use any services Facebook has bought or will ever buy (I personally got bitten by WhatsApp and Moves).

Sounds easy. Thanks for the advice.

skizm5• 12 years ago

Sarcasm aside, you're right. Facebook is now big enough that they can buy your info from other services. I suppose I would just recommend using a throw away email with facebook (one that won't match other services) and making sure you log out when you're done. I mean, if you check facebook semi-regularly there really isn't a need to get email notifications, but if you really want them, you can always forward them from your throwaway. I think that should be enough, right?

aestra2• 12 years ago

And of course don't be friends with anyone who has you in their contacts then install the facebook mobile app.

robert_tweed2• 12 years ago

Facebook only knows what you tell it.

Firstly, that's incorrect. Facebook also knows what other people tell it and what it is able to correlate from other data sources. To be fair to them, they've handled the issue with group photo tagging fairly well, but only after there was uproar about it.

They are in the business of collecting and monetising your data. That's fundamentally not in your interests and it's incredibly difficult to stop them from doing it, especially outside the EU. That is why a lot of people hate them.

skizm5• 12 years ago

Facebook would know what other people tell it regardless of how much you use it anyway. It is the same with every other online service. Google knows more about you than Facebook. I guess since they provide more value people are less likely to complain.

carlosdp• 12 years ago

Why is it "fundamentally not in my interest" for them to collect and monetize data? That's the price of using the service. Every business needs to get paid somehow.

bgun• 12 years ago

They are in the business of collecting and monetising your data. That's fundamentally not in your interests

I hate when phrases like this are thrown about; the collection of your data CAN be very much in your interests, and the monetization thereof makes it free, which is also clearly the preference of most.

The fact that everyone I keep in touch with uses the same system has amazing utility for me. Privacy protections are important, but harping on them as if there is no conceivable personal benefit to data collection turns these discussions into partisan bickering that's hard to take seriously.

epochwolf• 12 years ago

You forgot one thing, facebook knows what your friends tell them.

cliveowen• 12 years ago

don't use any facebook apps

They buy every even remotely successful app, so it's hard not to.

skizm5• 12 years ago

Facebook apps as in apps that are physically on Facebook. Just use a throwaway email for facebook so they can't link your emails when they buy other companies whose apps you use.

notastartup• 12 years ago

Why are they doing this? Why haven't done this before? I feel that maybe they bet on other things to take off which hasn't and that now they are looking to directly take the wallet of large corporations. If they were as successful as Google when it came to online advertisement, they shouldn't need to do this.

I take this as further cementing of the fact that they cannot give the returns to investors that is well expected and now overdue.

joeevans2• 12 years ago

Oh crap. First google+, now facebook? I hate employers making me use these horrible things. I'm now going to avoid working for companies that do.

Facebook only knows what you tell it.

Facebook collects lots of information on you if you're a member or not, and much more than you tell it. Don't believe me? Search on those keywords.

joeevans2• 12 years ago

I realize talk is cheap... here's a link:

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/facebook-finally-adm...

Facebook is building an enterprise product dubbed "FBWork"

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