Socialtext

Socialtext
Type	Private
Founded	December 2002
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, USA
Key people	Doug Ring (Chairman); Michael Idinopulos (GM); Shampa Banerjee (VP Engineering)
Website	http://www.socialtext.com

Not to be confused with the cultural studies journal Social Text.

Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software. Its integrated suite of web-based social software applications includes microblogging, user profile, directories, groups, personal dashboards using OpenSocial widgets, shared spreadsheet, wiki, and weblog collaboration tools, and mobile apps. It is run by Chairman Doug Ring and GM Michael Idinopulos.^[1]

Socialtext's technical features include LDAP and Active Directory integration, Single Sign-On, REST API, and Connectors to Salesforce and Sharepoint.

On May 1, 2012, Socialtext was acquired by Bedford Funding, a $1.4 billion private equity firm that also owns Peoplefluent.^[2] Before it was acquired, investors in Socialtext included Omidyar Network,^[3] Draper Fisher Jurvetson,^[4] and SAP Ventures.^[5]

Products[edit]

Products include:

Socialtext Signals - microblogging
Socialtext People - user profiles and directories
Socialtext Workspace - shared spreadsheets, wiki pages, and internal blogs
Socialtext Groups - lightweight collections of collaborating People and Workspaces
Socialtext Dashboard - OpenSocial widget based personal dashboard
Socialtext Activity Streams - integrated real-time activity reporting from all products
Socialtext Mobile - browser-based interface tailored for mobile access
Socialtext Desktop - full-function desktop client
Socialtext Connect - complete ReST API for integration with other Enterprise applications

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