Jim Lamb

Microsoft, unable to buy Facebook, makes their own for Big Biz (Download Squad)

Jun 12th 2008 11:30AM I've been using TownSquare for a few months internally at Microsoft and, overall, it's really useful. It makes an initial guess about who you work with and tracks them, but you can modify that list anytime. Whenever someone you're monitoring publishes/modifies a document on any of the monitored SharePoint sites, it shows up in TownSquare. You'll also see their IM status/note when it changes. It's a nice way of keeping track of what your colleagues are working on.

It really isn't much like FaceBook at all. People don't have their own pages per se. It's more of an aggregator that makes it easier to track SharePoint activity (document changes, blog posts, etc.) across a number of different SharePoint sites.