Get Tech Articles via RSSSharePoint 2010 SocialFest Competition
A week ago the Emerging Business Team at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus hosted a SharePoint 2010 competition titled “SharePoint 2010 SocialFest” where seven startup companies were given one week to develop an application on SharePoint 2010. During the week long event activities such as talks from developers, SharePoint engineering and product management teams, and venture investors were done. By Friday, the contestants presented their applications to a panel of judges which included Charles Schwab & Co. and McKesson. The winner of the competition was Huddle, which was basically synching up external team sites.
The rest of the application developed are the following:
1. Calinda MindUP – presents email interactions into visual maps which help create conversations between groups enhancing collaboration.
2. Confer – is simply twitter on SharePoint 2010 for both internal and external employees.
3. Cortex Intelligence – is an intelligent RSS tools which is presented via webparts fpr discussion, sharing, etc.
4. Leverage Software – makes your email thread into on-deman social workspace for sharing with others.
5. Liaise – reads through your email messages and organizes them into structured KeyPoints (actions/issues, due dates, people and priorities) and updates SharePoint portal Task/Issue Lists, Discussion Boards, Site Calendars and Documents.
6. Loqu8 Prelude – integrates lists and search results into a pop-up window which is contextual from applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.. Through mouse over, a pop-up window will display contextually relevant information from SharePoint.
Key Takeaway
The applications seem interesting, with the exception of Liaise, I don’t think any of these would see enterprise scale implementation due to security and governance issues. Given that SharePoint is a heavyweight on large scale enterprise implementations, social applications should address security and governance on its design.
Liaise is a good productivity tool as long as it does its work correctly and I see this as an application that have the least amount of security and governance issue. Having said that, Liaise could see full blown implementation on the enterprise.
