Sococo® Announce Commercial Release of Team Space at Enterprise 2.0

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ENTERPRISE 2.0 -- Today at Enterprise 2.0, http://www.e2conf.com/santaclara, Sococo announced commercial availability of Sococo Team Space, a group communication service for distributed teams.   Team Space is built on Sococo's revolutionary communication platform.  Sococo provides always-on smart spaces that help people communicate more naturally and effectively.  Smart spaces automatically connect people with multi-channel communications and enable them to visualize where they are and what's going on around them.

Team Space is an always-on service that promotes more effective communication.  Team Space presents an intuitive visual layout that depicts an office floor plan with individual offices, conference rooms and common areas.   Visual cues allow you to see who's in the office, who's busy, who's free and who's meeting with whom.   A simple click allows you to enter any room and be instantly connected to all those within with voice, chat, and multi-screen sharing.  Since Team Space is always on there are never any web meetings to schedule, access codes to distribute, or delays while waiting for attendees to locate codes and join your meeting.  

"Although we have conference calling, screen-sharing, and other collaborative tools, making them work together takes too much time and effort. The challenge is especially difficult for less-technical team members, who rarely adopt any tool other than conference calling.  Sococo Team Space changed all that," said Ken Rosen, Principal, Performance Works. "The office metaphor is so simple even advanced functions are intuitive, but the beauty of Team Space is not just ease, it's comfort.  For us, using Team Space really is the next best thing to being together."

The Sococo Service

Sococo is a new communications medium.   Sococo erases the barriers between text chat, voice, application sharing and webcam video.  It allows all of your communication channels to be controlled from a single point that is set inside a realtime social space that evolves and changes as you use it.

Sococo shows social spaces as virtual buildings where groups of people can interact with one another.  When you communicate with someone in a shared space, Sococo automatically collects and distributes social information to the rest of the group.   That allows other people to see what is happening and join the conversation.  Seeing people interact draws everyone closer together through natural sociability.

"Social networking, online chat, and text messaging have permanently changed how we interact with our communities," said David Van Wie, CEO and Sococo founder.   "These services have introduced lightly engaged communication based on text and status messages.  People using these services tend to contact each other frequently, but less intensively than they would during a phone call.  Sococo is the next step." 

Sococo smart spaces bring lightly engaged communication to realtime streams other than text, such as voice, application sharing, and video.  People in a smart space are automatically connected to everyone else using whatever stream types fit their need.  These streams are the core of deeply engaged interactions like conference calls and web meetings.  The power of smart space technology is that it shows who is there and what people are doing when they are deeply engaged within a community, while enabling lightly engaged communication using any set of streams. 

Availability and Pricing

Sococo Team Space for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X will be available for download beginning on November 17, 2010.  Team Space for Projects is available as a free version.   Paid versions start at $3.99 per month.  Download Team Space at www.sococo.com

About Sococo

Sococo was founded in 2007 to develop technology for the rapidly restructuring telecommunications industry.  All Sococo services are built on a patented, cloud-based platform for reliable and optimal interoperability.  The company is privately-held and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.  For more information, visit www.sococo.com

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