Connectbeam was a company based in
Mountain View,
California
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that provided
enterprise social software Enterprise social software (also known as or regarded as a major component of Enterprise 2.0), comprises social software as used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets a ...
. The company provided two core services:
social bookmarking
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and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other
social software
Social software, also known as social apps or social platform, include communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usua ...
applications. The company's stated goal was to establish the enterprise social network through the integration of employees'
user-generated content
User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is any form of content, such as images, videos, text, testimonials, and audio, that has been posted by users on online platforms such as social media, discussion f ...
.
Connectbeam was founded by Puneet Gupta in December 2005. A Series A round of $3.5 million for the company was led by Gabriel Venture Partners in July 2007. Connectbeam sells into the global enterprise market, and has been recognized for innovation by
Gartner
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,
InformationWeek
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, eContent and KMWorld.
In July 2011, the Connectbeam web site was removed.
See also
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Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social ...
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Social network
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...
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Enterprise social software Enterprise social software (also known as or regarded as a major component of Enterprise 2.0), comprises social software as used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets a ...
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Social computing
Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is based on creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and tech ...
External links
Connectbeam website
References
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Software companies based in California
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Software companies of the United States