Socialwok was a business
social networking
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service launched in September 2009. Socialwok integrates with
Google Apps
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and
Google accounts. The service provides a feed-based format for users to share ideas, files, documents and calendars using
rich media
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status updates. According to the homepage, the service was shut down on July 12, 2011.
History
On September 10, 2009, Socialwok won the TechCrunch50 Demopit award. It was the first
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
-based company to do so. Five days later, on September 15, 2009, the service launched at the
TechCrunch50
TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech and startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.
In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately ...
conference.
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, ''Scobleizer'', which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worke ...
(2009-09-30). How Microsoft Office 2010 will be locked out of my toolbag. scobleizer.com. Retrieved from http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/30/how-microsoft-office-10-will-be-locked-out-of-my-toolbag/.
Service
Socialwok is built on
Google App Engine
Google App Engine (often referred to as GAE or simply App Engine) is a cloud computing platform as a service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Applications are sandboxed and run across multiple servers ...
, Google's cloud computing service.
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External links
Socialwok
Singaporean social networking websites