Socialcast Introduces Official Developer API For Cross-Company Collaboration

Socialcast, the realtime collaboration software platform, today announced the release of its official developer API after weeks of beta-testing. Essentially, Socialcast lets employees in companies communicate via activity streams, create groups, and share urls, file, and knowledge across the enterprise.

With the new Socialcast API, both internal IT folks or outside developers can extend the product with new functionality. And companies who are partners can expose their Socialcast activity streams to each other for cross-enterprise collaboration. Rather than just confining the stream to one organization, that would build it more like a true enterprise version of Twitter, or the recently acquired FriendFeed, where you may follow colleagues inside and outside your company. The API allows developers to build native clients or internal applications, accessing the Socialcast activity stream. To get access to the Socialcast API, you’ll

have to already have an history, and from there, you’ll find all the data.

Socialcast Founder and CEO Timothy Young mentioned that Socialcast aims to be a platform, and not a tool like Yammer, or Twitter. Socialcast currently has by 7,000 companies, both free and paid accounts. When asked about the protection of the API and Socialcast platform, Young acknowledged that shield is a big concern and that Socialcast takes protection very seriously with SSL encryption.

Socialcast has raised a total of $1.4 million from True Ventures and is based in the South Park area in San Francisco, Calif.

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