Web Worker Daily

In an interesting business move, Socialtext (previously covered on WebWorkerDaily) today opened up its enterprise organizational collaboration software to smaller organizations with its new Free 50 offering for groups of up to 50 people. Previously, Socialtext did not have a freemium model (just a free trial), and instead offered its internal social networking, messaging and collaboration tools at a per-user price that put it out of the budgets of many smaller companies and groups. Now, with Free 50, virtual teams of web workers can sign up for a free version of the hosted SaaS.

What’s Included in Free 50

So what do we get for free? Most of the core features of Socialtext are offered as part of Free 50, including:

• the Facebook-like private social network.
• the customized home page dashboard.
• a collaborative workspace that blends wiki and blog functionality.
• Signals, the Twitter-like messaging system.
• Desktop, an Adobe Air desktop application that provides monitoring and access to Socialtext without having to constantly visit the Socialtext web site. ( I wrote about Signals and Desktop previously.) Read the rest of this entry »