Present.ly – Twitter for Corporates?

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Whilst investigating platforms for managing Amazon’s EC2 platform, I came across a company that have a site / product called Scalr (which is interesting in itself), but once I delved into the company behind that product – Intridea I was even more impressed. These guys are really producing some quality stuff.

One piece of tech that is particularly interesting is their product called present.ly – which in their own words is “Twitter meets LinkedIn”. Now whilst I believe these guys have done a good job building the technology I have to wonder if the product will make the dent in the market I believe they would like it to.

So many questions in my head around this space…

Will corporates show interest in microblogging? I can just imagine the CEO of some large multinational just microblogging about some aggressive job cuts he is having to make given the financial environment.

If enterprise microblogging becomes something to investigate, will the new kids on the block get to play, or will twitter take that business?

Still, kudos for the build of the app – it feels and looks good; and good luck to the guys at Intridea with the project. From what I’ve seen on their site, they definitely are pulling some great stuff together, so I’m going to keep an eye out for more interesting projects from them – their labs area is a good place to start if you are interested.