Sharing at Work

FriendFeed added a real-time view to its lifestreaming service last night.  It’s only a few features away from being a killer enterprise microblogging service that could render startups like Yammer irrelevant:

Picture this: - A FriendFeed room for your company.  Set access to “invite only” if needed.  Switch to the live streaming view.

And twitter-style @replies to individual users and direct messages to individual users.  Those last two features - available on Twitter today - are all it would take to push FriendFeed over the hump in the enterprise market.  I sure hope I can get something like moving this at my workplace soon.

This amped-up FriendFeed will of course have to overcome the usual “but I don’t want a 3rd party vendor hosting my company’s precious secrets!” complaint that all SaaS vendors face, but it can work… and soon!

Related Sharing at Work posts:

• Demand Flexibility From Your Software Service: thoughts on software as a service / SaaS
• Don’t E-mail It!: First in a series on how microblogs and RSS allow for big workflow improvements over cumbersome “Reply-All” culture

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