Also releases its OpenSocial widgets as Open Source PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Socialtext, the Enterprise
Social Software leader, today announced it will host Widget Wednesday on
November 12, a distributed hackathon for widgets and mashups. Socialtext
partners Box.net, Denodo, Newsgator, Meebo, Six Apart, Slideshare and others
will participate in the hackathon to develop OpenSocial standard-based widgets
and mashups on the Socialtext platform. Socialtext also announced that it will
release all of the widgets it develops under an Open Source license -- to help
partners, customers and developer community members create mashups leveraging
Socialtext's best-in-class REST API.
"We look forward to participating in Widget Wednesday and enabling
Slideshare widgets for sharing presentations with Socialtext users," said
Slideshare CEO Rashmi Sinha. "Socialtext has a history of hosting community
events like Barcamp and Dcamp that lead to great things and we are happy to be
part of the developer community."
Participation in Widget Wednesday is open to those who wish to join the
developer community. At the end of the day, participants will be able to vote
on the best widget created and the winner will receive a $300 gift certificate
for Kiva.org. Participation details can be found at
http://socialtext.net/wikiwed
Socialtext recently launched Socialtext 3.0, and is focusing on completing
the business social software offerings, including: Socialtext Dashboard,
Socialtext People, Socialtext Workspace, SocialCalc and Socialtext Signals.
Socialtext does not plan to update or support the Socialtext Open wiki in the
short-term for the distribution benefits of Open Source, to instead focus its
immediate energies on core development and cultivating a larger development
community with widgets and mashups. All widgets in Socialtext Dashboard
conform to the OpenSocial standard for widgets. Widgets developed by
Socialtext will be released under the Apache 2.0 open source license.
About Socialtext
As the Enterprise Social Software leader, Socialtext applies Web 2.0
technologies to the critical challenges facing businesses. Enterprise 2.0
holds the promise of dramatically increasing business productivity,
stimulating greater innovation, and creating tighter connections between
employees, partners, and customers. Socialtext provides hosted and
appliance-based solutions to more than 4,000 customers world-wide, including
BASF, Boston College, CondeNet, Epitaph Records, Humana, IKEA, Intel,
MicroStrategy, MWW Group, Nokia, Ogilvy, SAP, Sunguard, Symantec, USA Today
and Washington Post.
Socialtext's flagship product, Socialtext Workspace, is the first
enterprise wiki and the foundation of the social software platform. Socialtext
People enables enterprise social networking. Socialtext Dashboard provides
personalized and customizable widget-based interface for people and teams to
manage activities. SocialCalc is the social spreadsheet for distributed teams.
Learn more about Socialtext and how these innovative products are turned into
solutions at www.socialtext.com.
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