Cisco Prepares to Enter the Professional Social Networking Scene with “Quad”
Cisco Prepares to Enter the Professional Social Networking Scene with “Quad”
Posted 06/13/2010 at 11:16am
| by Justin Kerr
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If you dropped Facebook out of protest last month (which you probably didn't), and find yourself on the market for another social networking site (which you probably aren't), than you might be excited to hear Cisco is preparing to launch a new professional social networking site later in the year.
Cisco's General Manager of enterprise collaboration Murali Sitaram describes the service currently dubbed "Quad" as a place where professionals can take advantage of existing voice and video conferencing technologies offered by the company. He claims it is a "natural transition" to help fuel future technologies that will revolve around collaboration and communication.
It looks like the overall goal of the service is to marry together popular concepts like micro blogging with more immediate communication tools like live video for professional environments. For example, "if you find someone available in the network with knowledge that's useful for your project, you can start a video chat or web conference with them right away, rather than sending a message and waiting for a response".
Quad also hopes to include the ability to create personalized home pages, and host company specific content with ties into SharePoint and Documentern. Clearly Cisco is hoping this service will be adopted by firms to help replace aging intranet's that host mostly static, and outdated information.
Quad appears to be taking a unique approach, but does anyone out there think it will actually catch on?
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s1r 70nk
June 13, 2010 at 9:01pm
YAY! for being a cisco student. I hope there is a text book on how to use this software. :)
WarCrime342
June 14, 2010 at 12:24am
I just finished the Discovery course of the CCNA and I hope that in 3 years when I go back to get certified again, that they would have included atleast a chapter on this software.
And by the way, if you plan to take the CCNA certification test, study for the CompTIA Network+ certification too. They're quite similar.
reutnes
June 13, 2010 at 8:58pm
So basically it's LinkedIN with some extra CISCO product integration. I don't think this will be marketed to facebook users, but to LinkedIN or maybe even non-public network users.
B10H4Z4RD
June 13, 2010 at 4:28pm
maybe a facebook replacement isn't what we need. I'd love to check it out. I think this could be a really awesome website. No chance in hell i'd be using it for business [who am i Bill Gates?] but I think a more professional-based website could be a nice change.
Am I being retarded or do I have a point?
PS yeah, i did quit facebook. most of the way. shit.
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June 13, 2010 at 5:12pm
DUDE! Your system specs are alsmost exactly the same as mine!
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TechMan2525
June 13, 2010 at 1:45pm
I can see where it could be useful for business, based on the "Time Is Money" it could save time and money to get the information in detail and then be able to emediately use it as opposed to waiting around for a response in an email.
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Neufeldt2002
June 13, 2010 at 12:32pm
You know, I find Maximum PC the only social networking site I need.
Digital-Storm
June 13, 2010 at 1:43pm
There is no such thing as Online Professional Social Networking.
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