Communote
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Communote is a microblogging
tool and service launched in December 2008. Like Twitter
, it allows users to post updates of their activities. Unlike Twitter, Communote is a "professional microblogging service" focusing on the internal usage in companies. It is available as in-house installation and as online service.
tools due to its special microsharing approach. This means that storage and retrieval of postings is well supported, especially by tagging and extensive filtering features.
Further features are as follows:
tools Communote is built on Java EE technology following a classical software engineering
approach.
Microblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
tool and service launched in December 2008. Like Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, it allows users to post updates of their activities. Unlike Twitter, Communote is a "professional microblogging service" focusing on the internal usage in companies. It is available as in-house installation and as online service.
Features
Communote differs from standard enterprise microbloggingMicroblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
tools due to its special microsharing approach. This means that storage and retrieval of postings is well supported, especially by tagging and extensive filtering features.
Further features are as follows:
- Tagging (including hashtags)Tag (metadata)In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...
- LDAP integration
- File attachments
- Sending and receiving postings via IM and EmailEmailElectronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
- Mobile client
- Design customization
- Extensive filtering and RSS feeds on every possible filter combination
- Portlets
- JSONJSONJSON , or JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. It is derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects...
API - SSLTransport Layer SecurityTransport Layer Security and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer , are cryptographic protocols that provide communication security over the Internet...
Technology
In difference to common web 2.0 applications including other microbloggingMicroblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
tools Communote is built on Java EE technology following a classical software engineering
Software engineering
Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
approach.
See also
- JaikuJaikuJaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year...
- OpenMicroBloggingOpenMicroBloggingOpenMicroBlogging is an open protocol that allows different microblogging services to inter-operate. It lets the user of one service subscribe to notices by a user of another service. This enables a federation of new communities, as potentially an organization of any size can host a service...
- PlurkPlurkPlurk is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates through short messages or links, which can be up to 140 text characters in length....
- PowncePowncePownce was a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce was centered on sharing messages, files, events, and links with friends. The site launched on June 27, 2007, and was opened to the public on January 22, 2008...
- Present.lyPresent.lyPresently is a microblogging service launched in 2008 and given a Webware 100 Editors' Choice award in 2009 by CNET.The New York Times cites "security and privacy" as Present.ly's top selling points....
- TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
- YammerYammerYammer is an enterprise social network service that was launched in September 2008. Unlike Twitter, which is used for broadcasting messages to the public, Yammer is used for private communication within organizations or between organizational members and pre-designated groups, making it an example...