• January 14th, 2013

    Social Conversation Platform Branch Launches To Public, Encourages Users To “Write Like You Talk” With Shorter Thread Starters

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    Branch, a startup focused on enabling high quality public conversations on the web, is today launching to the public. The company is notably backed by the Obvious Corporation, the incubator from Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman, which is also home to Medium, a blogging platform that sits somewhere between long-form blog posts and the… → Read More

    September 26th, 2012

    HootSuite’s Conversations Adds Real-Time Chat To Its Social Media Dashboard

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    HootSuite has carved out a position as a popular way for businesses to manage their social media profiles on sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, but in its quest to become more of a one-stop “dashboard” for all social media interactions, it is adding a new feature: Conversations, an integrated, real-time messaging service, which goes live today and is available in a beta version for all… → Read More

    August 13th, 2012

    Obvious-Backed Branch Comes Out Of Public Beta To Foster Conversations Online

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    Back in March, Obvious Corporation, the mini accelerator founded by Biz Stone, Ev Williams and early Twitter employee Jason Goldman, announced its second incubation in Branch, a stealth startup co-founded by developers Josh Miller, Cemre Güngöre, and Hursh Agrawal that was — in their words — on a mission “to turn the Internet’s monologues into dialogues.”

    The startup also grabbed $2… → Read More