Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Google products and Microsoft Outlook, is taking its collaboration platform mobile today. The startup, which launched its Google Apps-focused product at TechCrunch50 last year, is debuting both an iPhone app and Android app to the public today....

The Android app has much of the same functionality as the web apps, including the ability to login with Google Apps or Gmail accounts, background syncing of status updates, feeds and contacts, view notes and emails in feeds, attach pictures, and notifications support for new posts and mentions.The iPhone app allows for access to your Socialwok account, the ability to drag and update of status updates in feeds and view notes and emails in feeds...

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SocialWok is doing some interesting stuff with the Google ecosystem. I met up with them in the hallway at Google IO and I came away from the meeting wondering if they will stay an independent company for very long. Why? Because they are doing the most interesting thing to bring Google's datatypes into your work. Worse yet for Microsoft, I'm seeing that a range of companies are building a wall around Microsoft's Sharepoint and limiting its ability to grow, at best and potentially taking market share away from Ballmer's Microsoft....

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As the Google I/O machine is just firing up, Seesmic and Socialwok announced a partnership with a Socialwok plugin for Seesmic.
Rather than developing a desktop client themselves, and continue to proliferate the too many active browser windows and two many communications apps open problem, the Seesmic integration allows Socialwok to come to market faster and on a consolidated platform. Users can view and interact with their Socialwok network stream alongside Twitter and Facebook. You can post new status updates and access shared content including Google Docs and download files directly to your desktop that were shared via Socialwok...

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Socialwok has released a new plugin for Microsoft Outlook called the Socialwok Outlook Social Connector. It lets Outlook users view a sender's Socialwok activity stream along side of a received email message and see their Socialwok network contacts email addresses, profile details and photos in an Outlook Contacts folder...

Here's what Ming Yong, Socialwok CEO, said about this new feature and their new partnership with Microsoft : "This Socialwok Outlook Social Connector for Microsoft Outlook marks only the very first step in what we plan to do with the Microsoft Office platform both on the desktop as wel as in the cloud. Microsoft Office 2010 also includes the release of Microsoft Office Web Apps. We see Microsoft becoming a dominant player in the cloud based Office Productivity space. By working closely with Microsoft, my company aims to realize our vision of being the largest business social collaboration network for cloud based office productivity in the world.", says Ming Yong, Socialwok CEO...

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Socialwok is built using a wide range of Google technologies like Google App Engine Java, Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Google Data APIs. It also utilizes HTML5 and open standards based social protocols like PubSubHubub, ActivityStrea.ms, Atom, OpenID, and OAuth.
I would like to share with you some of the cool stuff we have built using this technology stack and our experiences with building Socialwok on the Google Platform....

If you're attending Google I/O 2010, you can chat with us about Google App Engine, GWT, Google Apps Marketplace, or any other of the technologies described here in the Developer Sandbox on May 19 and 20. We look forward to seeing you there. For the latest updates on our experiences at Google I/O, check out our blog and follow us on Twitter.

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Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, is spreading its wings beyond the search giant to Microsoft land. Today, the startup, which launched its Google Apps-focused product at TechCrunch50 last year, is rolling out the Socialwok Social Connector for Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003.
Similar to the layer that Socialwok creates for Google Apps and Gmail, the connector allows Outlook users to create a private social network within the application to share ideas, emails, files, Office documents from Microsoft Word, Google Docs and other rich media using status updates....

Of course, it's interesting to see Socialwok playing nice with Microsoft products considering the startup has mainly tied its application to Google products. Not only was Socialwok was chosen as one of the showcase companies for AppEngine technology at this year's Google IO Developer Sandbox but Socialwok was just integrated as a pilot partner in Google's recently launched Google Apps Marketplace....

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Startup of the Day - Socialwok
The BizSpark startup of the day is Socialwok, based in Singapore. You will find below an interview with Ming Yong, Founder and CEO of Socialwok. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day!

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The concept behind Socialwok is a good one: leverage the power of the Google Apps mail, documents, calendar and instant messaging functions to let companies and organizations create interactive discussion timelines.
Socialwok builds on the infrastructure of Google Apps to provide document and calendar sharing and storage, as well as real-time notifications via Google Talk instant messaging. Note, however, that your organization doesn't need to use Google Apps to take advantage of Socialwok...
However, if you and your colleagues spend all day in the Google Apps web interface, give Socialwok a whirl. It's free, and definitely has potential.

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Most enterprise microblogging or collaboration solutions exist in their separate walled garden. Users have to use separate logins and post status updates independently of their existing workflow. From the start, we designed Socialwok to be integrated with the workflow of businesses who use Google Apps. Users can use their existing Google Apps or Gmail accounts to login into Socialwok. They can access all features of Socialwok from right inside Gmail. They can also create and share their existing Google Docs (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets) and Google Calendars with other coworkers who are following them in a feed..

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SocialWok is a collaboration tool for business. You can think of it as a business version of Facebook, allowing you to connect and share with your business partners, employees, and management. It's fully integrated with Google Apps and even has a clean, Google-ish feel to it. The simple interface hides a wealth of power that should help your business or organization make things happen, and even collaborate and connect with other businesses...
Because it's a collaborative tool, it's hard to see the true benefits of SocialWok until you actually start using it. If it wasn't for the deep integration with Google Apps and your standard social media websites, SocialWok might have been overlooked much like Google Wave. So, go sign up, invite the people you work with and let us know how it goes.

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Last fall I wrote an article comparing the key players in the enterprise microblogging space. Since writing that comparison, it's been interesting to watch as each services' strategy has morphed and to some degree diverged
I thought then and still think now that Socialwok is uniquely positioned adjunct to Google Apps from both an integration and distribution channel perspective. I was recently briefed by Yong Ming Guang, CEO of Socialwok, on some of their newly released features, and we talked strategy and direction...
Overall Socialwok has made good progress in the last six months and is still uniquely positioned to potentially ride on Google's coattails into hundreds of thousands of organizations. It remains to be seen what impact the introduction of Google Buzz into the Google Apps suite will have on Socialwok, and how successful they will be converting organizations to their paid version.

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Socialwok is the among the first mainstream social media applications that is directly aligned with the ability to get work done. Plenty of companies allow the use of Facebook, Twitter, Ning, and other utilities, as well as a variety of groupware to facilitate collaboration. However, because of its very close integration with Google Apps, the very tool adopted by millions of businesses as their groupware of choice, Socialwok is unique...
Obviously I'm enthusiastic about this tool. The expanded social utility that it creates within Google Apps is quite significant and has the potential to change the way a lot of companies work. This won't be for everyone; many organizations are absolutely not ready to embrace social media within their business processes, no matter how progressive Google Apps may be standing alone. However, for those looking at ways to improve collaboration and communication in a manner that fits with users existing expectations in the Facebook age, then Socialwok needs to be on your very short list of tools that can make this happen

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Ming Yong, CEO of Socialwok, the social layer for Google Apps, dropped us a line to announce that his product was getting Buzz - Google Buzz, that is, along with Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feed support. Here's the scoop on the new feature. To me, it sounds like Socialwok's new brings Google Apps even closer in functionality to Microsoft Exchange 2010, which is getting a social media connector. Yong was quick to dispel that comparison, but take a look at Socialwok's guided social media integration tour and decide for yourself ....

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Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products, was just integrated as a partner in Google's recently launched Google Apps Marketplace...
Socialwok is now a full-fledged Twitter client and allows users to Tweet directly from its platform, as well as track a brand or keywords on Twitter from within the application. Additionally, users can monitor and track updates on a Facebook page. Socialwok is also allowing users to import RSS feeds and share it within a company's Socialwok account. And Socialwok is integrated with Google Buzz, and allows users to tap into their Buzz streams from within the platform and share content in Buzz from within Socialwok.
With the addition of social networking functionality, Socialwok is becoming more than just a collaboration platform. In fact, the application is developing into a full-fledged social CRM, taking on Salesforce's Chatter, Jive, Socialcast and a host of other enterprise friendly social networks. CEO Ming Yong tells me that after the startup's launch on the Google Apps marketplace last week, Socialwok signed up over 4000 businesses to its service. Prior to the launch on the marketplace, 6,000 domains and tens of thousands of users were using Socialwok ...

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Home-grown technology startup-up Voiceroute is among the first wave of software developers featured in the eye-catching Google Apps Marketplace. The three year hold firm is among the over 50 developers on board search giant Google's online store front which was launched on Tuesday. Voiceroute's offering for the store is its budding social collaboration service Socialwok. Aimed at small medium sized businesses (SMBs), it lets groups of employees and co-workers collaborate easily and share information...

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A Singapore startup is setting its sights on a global through the success of its third-party Google Apps product and Google's newly-launched enterprise apps store.
The search giant on Wednesday launched an app store for its online productivity suite, Google Apps. The store, called the Google Apps Marketplace, pools together third-party applications that have been available for Google Apps, aimed at making it easier for IT managers to discover and add new apps.
Yong Ming Guang, CEO of the Singapore startup Socialwok, said in a phone interview with ZDNet Asia that the company expects to expand its business clientele through the new marketplace. Described by its makers as "Facebook for businesses", Socialwok plugs into a company's information contained in its Google Apps implementation, to create a social network through which its employees can communicate.
Yong said Socialwok's team worked with Google for about three months in preparation for the launch of the marketplace. No changes had to be made to the Socialwok interface for the integration with the app store, but he noted that the team put in an additional administrator control page, to ease the setup process for new sign-ups ...

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Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services. The marketplace is launching with a number of pilot partners (50 to be exact). One of those partners happens to be recently launched Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products. At last year's TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based application was praised for launching a social network that wrapped around the very unsocial Google Apps. And the startup just launched a gadget to allow users access all the features of Socialwok without leaving Gmail....

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For a VAR, one potential selling point of Google Apps is how easily users can collaborate on documents. That's well and good, but today's Facebook-connected world demands something more. Enter Socialwok, a startup that claims to overlay the best features of social networking, including a real-time news feed, on top of an existing enterprise Google Apps deployment. It's not quite ready for the channel, but it's well worth watching. Here's why...

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At last year's TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its enterprise-friendly, FriendFeed-like layer for Google Apps. The web-based application was praised for launching a social network that wrapped around the very unsocial Google Apps. Today, the startup is launching a gadget to allow users access all the features of Socialwok without leaving Gmail...

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In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to talk about Socialwok, a social networking layer on top of Google Apps for your domains. For someone like me who loves Google Apps because of my love for Gmail, I always wanted a social networking layer on top of Google Apps to collaborate efficiently with my partners in many different countries. So far, I didn't come across something which doesn't disrupt my workflow. When I came across Socialwok, I jumped in reluctantly but I was pretty amazed at how well it has been integrated with Google Apps. If you are a Google Apps user, I strongly recommend you to try out Socialwok...

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James Hollow is President of Alien-Eye, a rapidly growing creative marketing agency based in Tokyo and a Socialwok customer. Depending on the project, Alien-Eye works with a network of production partners outside the company and thus a lot of Alien-Eye projects depend on successful collaboration between different distributed small teams.

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Socialwok - This application works in a very remarkable way when it comes to providing users with a good alternative for sharing a variety of files and text documents. In addition to this, they will be able to get a great assortment of videos and maps and virtually any other thing to be found on the internet...

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When building great enterprise apps for our users many of us often first target the desktop user. Did you know that GWT lets you just as easily build great user interfaces for your mobile users? Modern mobile phones such Android based devices and the iPhone ship will powerful web browsers which use the same Webkit rendering engine which GWT already supports and increasingly includes great capabilities like geo-location and offline storage. Today's guest blog post is from Navin Kumar, CTO of Socialwok who has offered to share some of their experiences around building mobile apps for the enterprise...

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I really like Office 10. Looks great, doesn't it? Lots of new features. And it even works well on the web. But it is doomed to be kept out of my toolbag. I realized that when Yong Ming Guang, CEO of Socialwok, showed me his new collaborative toolset today. How will Microsoft Office be locked out?...

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Google Apps is an impressive productivity suite. But however good Docs and Gmail are, organizations using Apps are left without the kinds of social software they're used to having outside of work. Singapore-based startup Socialwok is attempting to fix that by offering a social app that lives on top of Google Apps. Socialwok resembles FriendFeed in many ways. The real-time stream of information can include attachments in-line and can be divided into topical feeds. The big difference is that all of it is nested securely under the umbrella of your Apps login...

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Google Docs has changed the landscape of computing office suites. By moving everything to the cloud, accessing documents is easier now than it ever has been. But unlike a lot of the other things Google is working on, Google Docs isn't particularly social. Socialwok, a startup that won the demopit competition today at TechCrunch50 adds a great social layer to Google Docs...

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