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ESME: Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like?

2008-08-04T19:01:48Z

ESME, the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, is an experimental communication project developed for SAP's 'Demo Jam' by a group of 24 collaborators. It's a red hot vision of a Twitter-like experience behind the firewall.

While not yet publicly available, ESME aims to bring all the best things about Twitter to global business communication. Rapid collaboration, network effects leveraged for support, multiple interfaces and some advanced features that Twitter itself doesn't yet offer. Check out the demo video embedded below.

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ESME was written up today by ZDNet's Oliver Marks, who believes such functionality will be ubiquitous in the near future but applauds the team for pushing the envelope. While the team publicly involved is very interesting, we hear also that consultant and mystery ~~employee~~ consultant at Twitter David Pollak is also a key player in ESME.

We think there's a whole lot of potential here.

Comment from Todd on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T19:38:27Z

"...Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like?"

No way. It would look like this"

Enterprise asks: "What are you doing?"

Salesman: "Spending per diem at strip club with phone set to send all calls to voicemail."

Company board member: "Trying to figure out a way to lay off 40% of the blue collar work force and hide the gains from the reduce payroll into funding a corporate jet."

Warehouse worker: "Hiding in bathroom until shift is over."

IT manager: "Blocking myspace, Twitter and Read Write Web."

Comment from Pete Prodoehl on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T20:02:19Z

There's always the open source Laconica to build your "Enterprise Twitter" on top of...

Comment from David Pollak on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T20:53:30Z

Yes, I'm involved with ESME. I am not now, nor have I ever been, an employee of Twitter. Thanks! David

Comment from Aldo Bucchi on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T21:46:59Z

Wow... that guy speaks fast.

Comment from Esdee on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T22:06:00Z

good.
twitter are way too late with either business plan or even solid infrastructure to support any plan.
this should give their investors an itch, and this itch should turn into some productive ideas for the twitter team....

Comment from Nick Stamoulis on 2008-08-04

2008-08-04T22:53:39Z

Looks pretty cool! We love the new platforms coming out - Twitter on steroids. :)

Comment from Jake on 2008-08-04

2008-08-05T01:53:35Z

ESME is very cool. Dennis and his cronies are doing cool stuff.
Oracle has a semi-related project going on; you can read about it here. Actually, this is the side project of one dude; pretty nice stuff, queue your tweets using Oracle DB, for those times when Twitter isn't feeling well.