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Title: Microsoft privately testing a 'Twitter for business' service Post by: Tanya on March 21, 2010, 11:07:37 AM Microsoft privately testing a 'Twitter for business' service
Microsoft is continuing to look into ways to make social computing services part of business users’ lives with a new pilot program for something called “OfficeTalk.” Microsoft mentioned OfficeTalk in a March 19 posting on the Office Labs blog, calling it a vehicle that “applies the base capabilities of microblogging to a business environment, enabling employees to post their thoughts, activities, and potentially valuable information to anyone who might be interested.” (From that description, OfficeTalk could be more like the enterprise microblogging service Yammer than Twitter, as a few readers have noted. But there’s really not enough information on the Office Labs’ site to know for sure….)Continue At Source Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites http://feeds.bink.nu/~r/binkdotnu/~3/-k1MMYegjO4/microsoft-privately-testing-a-twitter-for-business-service.aspx |