As if the world needed more microblogging services we present the Socialtext Microbloggin Appliance, a rack server that basically builds out social networking and microblogging applications instantly inside an Intranet. Instead of relying on outside services like Yammer, Facebook, and AdultFriendFinder, your employees can tweet or whatever you want to call it all from the comfort of your offices and you have complete control of the drivel they spew.
The device costs $1 per user per month along with a small$1000 fee for the appliance. You can also try their Free 50 offer right now if your unsure if you want to allow this sort of frippery on your plant floor.
The service includes browser-based and standalone AIR apps.
Rapid, secure and scalable deployment, with either an on-site appliance, installed on your premises behind your firewall, or a hosted appliance installed in our data center.
Optional integration with your directory services (LDAP/Active Directory), which populates Socialtext’s rich user profiles, makes your corporate directory social, and provides single sign-on with your other intranet applications.
Extensibility, using REST APIs. The activity streams that appear on profile pages in the microblogging appliance can easily be integrated with third-party applications, providing a unified activity stream or making other applications social.
A rapid stream of enhancements with monthly software updates. Hosted appliances get updated automatically; on-site appliances have a single-step upgrade process, for all the benefits of SaaS and on site deployment combined.
Profiles in Socialtext Microblogging Appliance show not only the standard corporate data such as reporting structure and contact information, but also give a rich picture of the person, showing their photo, the people they are following, their profile pages on external social networks, tags that describe them, their recent Signals (140-character microblogging messages), and more.
What exactly is the “small” fee on the appliance. $5000? $1 per user a month is ridiculously low for that appliance to cost nothing.
$1000. Sorry. just dug it up
I’ll stick with email thanks.
We tested this with a small group internally – it has some interesting uses, but basically it’s twitter and a wiki mash-up.
It’s OK but really didn’t serve our purposes as we’d hoped it would…
Companies LOVE stuff like this. Drop it in your data center and go. I’m curious to see how this turns out. Btw, exactly whose employees are using AFF?
I like how “AdultFriendFinder” was thrown in there! EXACTLY what every intranet system needs!
I concur!
Why not just buy the SAME Dell server straight from Dell then install laconi.ca for FREE and skip the whole $1 per user mess
You must be kidding me – have we not learned that appliances are bad investments? Lock in.
What’s the maximum number of users this appliance can handle?
Woohoo! The Idiotomaticronicom! Either this is a complete joke to see who falls for it or the most valuable thing you’ll get out of this is a killer mailing list of idiots that will buy ANYTHING. I’d pay $1000 and $1/idiot for that suckers list, any day! Oh, I’m sorry, was that a bit too harsh? ;-)
Just one more word, ok more than one:
Useless IBM datapower XML appliances.
you can get free here, no cost or bla3..http://bit.ly/SVMIh