I'm currently looking into the Apps available from the Marketplace for a Google Apps for Education installation. One area of particular interest is social collaboration. If, for example, you are running a dedicated social collaboration enterprise solution that is good but expensive, is there a viable cheaper alternative through Google Apps?
Well, I think there is a serious contender and it's called Socialwok...

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Socialwok's basic service is free. Paid subscriptions include additional administrative features, applications and dedicated support ....

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Last week when TechCrunch reported on the launch of SocialWok's expansion from Gmail to Microsoft Outlook, I was eager to try it out. Call it a mini social network based around your email. The target market is small to medium sized businesses and it is set up to be an internal form of communication. Share documents, calendars, Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz activity....

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Google IO 2010 is Google's largest annual 2 days developer conference participated by over 5000 people attending over 90 technical sessions covering every aspect of technology from the search giant. I was attending Google IO together with my colleagues Navin Kumar and Vikram Rangnekar. Our company Voiceroute Pte Ltd was invited to demonstrate and talk about how our online business collaboration service Socialwok (http://socialwok.com) uses Google technology...

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In the midst of all the Internet innovation, we have been consumed by Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. While there is a looming battle between Google and Microsoft to dominate the software-as-a-service for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, there is an ever larger prize for venture capital and the right technical team ...
There is a HUGE opportunity to take down this gold mine. I see green shoots such as SocialWok and Rapportive but both need a bit more to have ground breaking impact of a Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows or the iPhone ...

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Socialwok has built its business on providing a social networking layer to productivity apps. Previously, their product had only been available for Google Apps, but today marks the availability of the Socialwok Outlook Connector, letting business users of Microsoft's e-mail client keep track of what their coworkers are up to, Web 2.0-style. Here's the scoop...

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Voiceroute Pte Ltd, the folks behind Socialwok, have launched Socialwok Outlook Social Connector for Office 2010, 2007, and 2003 today. Socialwok is the service which allows you to easily connect and collaborate with your co-workers. Use your existing email address to to create a private social network to share ideas, emails, files, documents, and other rich media using status updates...

This is a very exciting announcement for Socialwok as it only marks the beginning of a much greater strategy. According to Ming, Microsoft will soon become the dominant player as far as cloud-based office productivity applications goes. This is very likely since Microsoft already has a stronghold in the desktop arena and is including free cloud services with it's latest Office 2010 release. "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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Has anyone else gotten the feeling that Buzz is an application looking for a use case? A lot of people said the same thing about Wave and, while I know there are corporate and workgroup applications, I still find myself using a Twitter client, sitting with Facebook open in another tab, and simply using Gmail. I want to like Buzz, but so far, the only really compelling application of the Buzz interface that I've encountered has been Socialwok ....
Not surprisingly, SocialWok is a launch partner with the Buzz buttons and has fully integrated the new abilities to interact with a Buzz profile into its own social business application. According to the SocialWok blog ..

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I posted a tweet today that suggest that Social Wok had problems. Social Wok replied to my tweet asking for more information. Now that's the way to follow up! Take note of that folks. Responding to complaints is a good thing as I went the extra mile to grab some screenshots(see below) and am creating this post. If they hadn't responded I probably would have removed Social Wok and just moved on...
But here's the thing. In the time it took me to write this post, it seems that the Social Wok folks fixed the issue. Not only does the gadget with gmail work perfectly so does the standalone. That my friends is the power of listening to the twitterverse and responding. Not only did Social Wok make their product work better, they just made one user really, really happy. All within about an hour!

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Take facebook notifications and sharing wrap them around google docs and shared google calendar and hook it all together with email and IM messaging and you pretty much have a groupware dream.
Seriously awesome.
http://www.socialwok.com/

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SocialWok completely overhauls the way you interface with Google Apps, giving it the look and feel of a social network, so that it is much easier to, for instance, share items with your coworkers. The startup was a winner at TechCrunch's TC50 last year, and has been pegged as a possible Google acquisition target.

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Socialwok offers a cloud-based social productivity and collaboration application for Google Apps that offers a platform for users to share ideas, Web links, email and Google Docs; share and access files from the Web or mobile; and integrates with Gmail, Google Talk and Google Docs. Users receive a private collaboration network on Google Apps to share all of that information with colleagues and outside parties

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The Google Apps Marketplace cat is out of the bag, and software developers seem to be tripping over themselves to get listed. A few software companies have been shouting the reasoning behind their marketplace moves from the rooftops, calling it the herald of the emerging software as a service (SaaS) market. Socialwok, the social layer for Google Apps that we previously covered here, says Google Apps Marketplace was a natural choice for their business since they were already operating in the search giant's ecosystem. There are many SMBs already using Google Apps as their de facto group messaging and collaboration platform so integrating with Google Apps was a logical choice for us, said Socialwok CEO Ming Yong ...

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The internet juggernaut Google today launched a new app store for businesses called the Google Apps Marketplace. This marketplace will feature products and services for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps and makes it easier for its 2 million customers to discover and purchase business applications and services.
Socialwok - The social network and project management software for enterprise is one of the first 50 applications in this nascent marketplace. One of the unconference'09 featured startup and TechCrunch50 demo pit winner, this Singapore-based startup offers collaboration network on Google Apps to share ideas, files, web links, Google Docs, Google Calendar with your workforce and external parties ...

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We knew Google had been making nice with software developers and now we know why. The Google Apps Marketplace has just launched, giving ISVs a way to integrate their products with Google Apps and sell them to a huge-and-growing customer base. Intrigued? Socialwok, the social layer for Google Apps that we reported on here...

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Last evening Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, an one-stop shop for SaaS business applications that are tightly integrated with Google Apps. Zoli covered the launch from Google Event and Ben did some analysis from the SMB perspective.
Socialwok: Socialwok is another favorite app of mine. Socialwok adds a social layer on top of Google Apps and offers a deeper integration with Google Apps services like calendar and docs. Socialwok, the winner of the Techcrunch 2009 demopit award, also runs on the Google infrastructure. It is built on top of Google App Engine. Already, they had made available a Google gadget which integrates well into Gmail. Now, Socialwok is even more integrated with Gmail, vastly simplifying the workflow and enhancing the collaboration further. I strongly recommend this app for any business with a distributed team ...

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Google today is announcing the Google Apps Marketplace, and app store for the 25 million people currently using Google Apps.
The store comes out of the desire for increased functionality among Google Apps users, and the wish of developers to reach the millions of businesses that depend on Google Apps every day.
There have been companies developing for Google Apps for some time, such as SocialWok. However, the process has always been difficult, and overly complex for both developers and users alike. The new App store will change that by creating a central location for applications, a central management areas, universal navigation, data security, and simple sign in...

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Google launched an application marketplace today comprised of services from third-party providers that integrate with the Google Apps ecosystem. Other companies that were a part of the initial launch include Socialwok...

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