LinkedIn has today launched its OpenSocial applications platform and one of the first providers will be UK collaboration and project management startup Huddle.net. In fact, it is the only European company on the applications provider list.
Huddle Workspaces will be a bespoke application inside LinkedIn’s service with all the key functionality of its main service. In a nutshell you can create a Huddle workgroup from within Linkedin, and vice versa, if you create a project inside Huddle’s system you can link it to you LinkedIn account later on.
When you install the application on your LinkedIn account (you can do it here) Huddle creates a workspace for you so you can start uploading or creating files, have discussions and invite your LinkedIn connections to collaborate on a project. If you’re an existing Huddle user then you can link your account to LinkedIn and see all of your existing workspaces within the Linkedin app. This is essentially a cut-down version of the main Huddle application, designed to fit within Linkedin’s platform.
The move should be good for adoption of the platform – LinkedIn’s 30 million users are largely business people who will now be exposed to Huddle’s services. As TechCrunch reports, launch available applications include a trip application from TripIt, presentations from SlideShare and Google Presentations, blog feeds from WordPress and Six Apart, file storage and collaboration from Box.net, online workspaces from Huddle, and a Reading List app from Amazon that will allow users to share the books they are reading. LinkedIn is also offering a few homebrewed apps, including a tracking application that monitors for a company’s mentions on Twitter and a Poll app.
Significantly, Huddle is understood to have begun negotiations to go onto LinkedIN’s platform when they were on the Web Mission trip earlier this year, thus proving the validity and importance of such trips. That should shut up some of those negative critics who thought nothing would come of the project.
Huddle’s system is looking great !!
I am eager to try it..
As more people become unemployed in this recession, we may see this as the beginning of the mainstream, decentralized, virtual, worldwide, asynchronous workforce. Viva la Revolution!
Great to see Ali and the Huddle team leading the way. We have used Huddle for a couple of projects, easy to access and use. And of course, Ali and Andy are great promoters and supporters of startups.
Congratulations to Ali and the team at Huddle. They certainly know what they’re doing and this deal will certainly propel them forward in the US.
They were an integral part of the Digital Mission to NYC as well and definitely made the most of the opportunities that came up there.
Coincidentally, the application process for Digital Mission to South by South West interactive in 2009 has opened:
http://digital-mission.org
I still can’t get beyond LinkedIn as a fairly static platform to hold your CV and network in a fairly basic, formal sense. I guess people might use it as a “work” platform and keep the relative formality. Facebook seems more engaging and better aligned with the business/academic blogosphere – the equivalent of meeting with founders of a start-up in Starbucks, or with colleagues in a bar to talk shop and whatever else is going on. Fascinating to see these things develop.
Anyone of you tried the Huddle’s system?
Any suggestions?
No I don’t have any idea regarding this system..
please update me…
Hello Guys!
I would like to share some information regarding Huddle system’s.
Huddle combines online collaboration, online project management and document sharing using social networking principles.
Huddle is a true collaboration, knowledge management and teamwork tool that enables networks of people to form, work together and communicate. Virtual workspaces called ‘huddles’ are used to manage projects, share and review documents, monitor timelines and discuss work across the members of the group. It lets you see who’s online and how everything is progressing. All activities, messages and information can then be shared across the users’ organization, or transmitted to other members of the network.
hey thanks for your reply!!
thanks a lot …