Archive for March, 2010

Mobile and always on go is the name of the game in modern world. No matter what your project or job is about, someone on your team if not most of the team will be running around and won’t have access to their computer or won’t have time to open up the laptop.

That is why our iPhone mobile Flowr applications helps you post status updates, discuss and access archives. This way you’ll always be in touch with your team. You can download Flowr iPhone app for your network for free from Apple iTunes store and is work of talented developer Rok Gregorič.

Flowr continues to get new features and updates with a rapid pace based on feedback of our users as well as our everyday experiences as we run our whole operation through Flowr.

Biggest new feature is improved search display, where you have more control over your search results like additional filtering by tags, groups or people.

Second big update comes in form of new style of e-mail notifications. Notification now includes full message of the comment as well as original message in case you need a bit more context, and they also look great!

Flowr now also supports Desktop notifications. To get it working in Firefox, you need to install Yip extension and it’s going to automatically integrate with notifications in Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux.

Other notable updates to Flowr this week are:

• trending topics in sidebar
• improved external flows: you can now share them with your network
• pages now have titles
• improved performance in many areas of Flowr

Let us know of your thoughts via Feedback button inside your network.

Facebook right now has over 400 million active users, with half of them logging into Facebook every day. When you add users of other social networks the trend we can see a clear rise of social networks as a communication platform. We used to look at social networks as an interactive address books but it they’ve evolved beyond that. Today the core feature of social network is a communication stream that allows users to post their own messages as well as comment and discuss what others are posting and doing. Based on the usage and growth numbers of social networks we can see that users are fully embracing this new way of communication and moving away from instant messaging and email for things that they’re willing to share with their broader circle of friends.

As the generation of web savvy people move their communication into streams and prove that it works for their non-work interaction, it’s now time to start comparing how our internal enterprise platforms enable them to use these efficient ways of communication in a way that makes their work more efficient. How much work does it take them to update a wiki page or to figure out who to email their thoughts to? Are our mailing-lists really being used and how do we store documents and drafts of our past projects?

Benefits of communicating within social streams are clear enough that in a last year a whole new branch of enterprise oriented social streams offerings emerged. Companies like SocialText, Yammer and even SalesForce’s Chatter (as well as our Flowr), are all offering their takes of social streams and are integrating it into enterprises in a different ways. Proposed benefits are clear with businesses reporting much better internal communication, less email overload and more insightful real-time conversation.

Can you afford not to evaluate benefits of social streams in your business?

We’re happy to announce that we’ve been selected as one of the 20 companies to present at the Plugg conference. Plugg is a platform for the most innovative startups in Europe to be able to connect to potential investors and share experience with other entrepreneurs.

Meet us there or contact Davorin (@davorin), if you happen to be in Brussels at the same time and would like to meet with us.