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OpenRasta Code Camp

Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Jimmy Tight Pants.

OpenRasta is about to hit the mainstream with its debut at Mix10 and to celebrate, we’re holding a code camp here in the Huddle offices as part of Seb’s 20 Days of OpenRasta project

We’ll be opening our doors on Thursday 18th February from 6:00pm. Our offices are at 180 Bermondsey Street, SE1

Anyone who wants to come along and find out about .Net’s hidden gem is welcome to share in beer, pizza, and hacking sessions. For our part, we’re going to finally get around to building a proper OAuth WRAP demo atop the framework, but any suggestions for hack projects are warmly welcomed.

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Repping the UK Scene

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Bob.

I’ve just returned to the UK after a week in Silicon Valley at a Microsoft event. The event was called SocialFest 2010, and was a competition designed to show the new capabilities of Sharpeoint 2010. 7 teams from around the world were invited to take part, and to produce a solution atop Sharepoint 2010.

After a week of 14 hour days, more sugar and caffeine than is strictly healthy, one trip to the emergency room, and a metric ton of tobacco, we came out on top and brought home the silverware.

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New features arrive

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by Zuzanna.

We’ve updated the upcoming calendar tools both on your Dashboard and within each workspace to allow users to scroll through events in the weeks and months ahead or in the past. This allows you to view a full calendar of all meetings and tasks across all your workspaces on the Dashboard page, and access a [...]

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Huddle – the Internet Product of the Year

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Good news comes in twos, it seems. Huddle has just been named the Internet Product of the Year in the UK IT Industry Awards.
The UK IT Industry Awards are a new venture between the British Computer Society (BCS) and Computing, merging the BCS IT Industry Awards and the Computing Awards. Its goal is to create [...]

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Huddle is, again, the one to watch

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Exciting news, just in! Huddle has been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark One Program. This unique invitation-only program, launched this week, is designed to accelerate the growth of high potential start-ups.
According to Dan’l Lewin, corporate vice president for Strategic and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft, the idea behind BizSpark One is to cast a [...]

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In the Huddle with HP

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.

Just last month we were all getting excited about Huddle’s new features and our expansion into the US. With today’s announcement about our collaboration with HP, I think it’s pretty clear – there’s no stopping Huddle now.
So what does this deal mean? Hewlett-Packard will include the Huddle collaboration application on commercial PCs, laptops and netbooks [...]

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Huddle has a magic vision

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Zuzanna.

We’ve done it. Again. Huddle has just been named in Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace and placed its in Visionary Quadrant. According to Gartner, we’re ‘visionary’ because of the speed at which our product has evolved through partnerships and its innovative viral adoption model’. Well done, Huddle team!
A lot has happened in [...]

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Huddle goes big: web conferencing, iPhone app and Office integration have arrived

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by Zuzanna.

… plus we’re knocking on your door, America!
What an awesome day today at Huddle.net! Not only we have launched web conferencing, iPhone app and integrated Huddle with Microsoft office, but we also signed up more than 900 partners in the US who will be offering Huddle on our behalf.
It’s official: Huddle is now THE single [...]

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Major Huddle performance boost for US users

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by Jonathan.

Huddle has a new shiny home. This weekend we have completed our migration to new data centres. One difference that you should notice straight away is that we have improved international network connectivity, so those of you in the US should see a significant improvement in performance.
The move did not go quite as smoothly as [...]

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Intermittent issues with Huddle, Saturday 26th September

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Jonathan.

This morning (UK time) we migrated Huddle’s service to a new data centre. The initial migration went very smoothly, taking just 20 minutes from beginning to end, and all through this morning the site was running really well on the new servers.
Just after lunchtime, though, we saw intermittent issues leading to timeouts, which we resolved, [...]

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1.5M networks, 33M people. Huddle launches on Ning!

Posted on 10. Sep, 2009 by Zuzanna.

As of 4pm GMT today, 33 million Ning members can enjoy Huddle Workspaces. Enough about us, here’s what Huddle customers and Ning users have to say about it. They’ve been secretly using Huddle Workspaces on Ning for the past few months.

Inspiris, a social enterprise firm that connects the world’s leading businesses and governments to fight [...]

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