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	<title>Comments on: The bell</title>
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		<title>By: Josh Fraser</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-833</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh Fraser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I haven&#039;t done a thorough comparison of Yammer to Socialcast, but I know we tried Yammer first and didn&#039;t really like it.  Perhaps someone else can chip in w/ a better comparison, but here are a few of the main things I love about Socialcast: 
 - The have a really great attention to detail in their UI 
 - You have lots of options for clients (web, desktop, iphone) 
 - Their API rocks </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#039;t done a thorough comparison of Yammer to Socialcast, but I know we tried Yammer first and didn&#039;t really like it.  Perhaps someone else can chip in w/ a better comparison, but here are a few of the main things I love about Socialcast:<br />
 &#8211; The have a really great attention to detail in their UI<br />
 &#8211; You have lots of options for clients (web, desktop, iphone)<br />
 &#8211; Their API rocks</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Owocki</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-832</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Owocki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good post Josh.  Our team is very pro-data sharing.  I&#039;m curious about something:  Why did you guys go with socialcast for team data sharing (as opposed to Yammer)?  We&#039;re on Yammer, and at first glance, SocialCast looks more powerful 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good post Josh.  Our team is very pro-data sharing.  I&#039;m curious about something:  Why did you guys go with socialcast for team data sharing (as opposed to Yammer)?  We&#039;re on Yammer, and at first glance, SocialCast looks more powerful</p>
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		<title>By: Josh Fraser</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-805</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh Fraser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sure, in PHP it looks like this.  It&#039;s just a simple REST call: 
 
function post_to_socialcast($message, $url = false) { 
$socialcast_url = &quot;https://SHORTCODE.socialcast.com/api/messages.json&quot;; 
$message = &quot;message[title]=&quot;.$message; 
// link this message?   
$message .= ($url) ? &quot;&amp;message[url]=&quot;.$url : &quot;&quot;; 
 
// curl options 
$options[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = 0;  // important  
$options[CURLOPT_USERPWD] = &quot;EMAIL:PASSWORD&quot;; 
$options[CURLOPT_POST] = 1;  
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $message; 
 
single_curl($socialcast_url, false, $options); 
} 
 
Obviously you need to replace SHORTCODE, EMAIL and PASSWORD with your own values.  This code uses my curl library that you can find at: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/01/26/how-to-use-curl_multi-without-blocking/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/01/26/how-to-use...&lt;/a&gt;  
 
Hope that helps.  Feel free to email me if you need more. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, in PHP it looks like this.  It&#039;s just a simple REST call: </p>
<p>function post_to_socialcast($message, $url = false) {<br />
$socialcast_url = &quot;<a href="https://SHORTCODE.socialcast.com/api/messages.json&quot;" rel="nofollow">https://SHORTCODE.socialcast.com/api/messages.json&quot;</a>;<br />
$message = &quot;message[title]=&quot;.$message;<br />
// link this message?<br />
$message .= ($url) ? &quot;&amp;message[url]=&quot;.$url : &quot;&quot;; </p>
<p>// curl options<br />
$options[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = 0;  // important<br />
$options[CURLOPT_USERPWD] = &quot;EMAIL:PASSWORD&quot;;<br />
$options[CURLOPT_POST] = 1;<br />
$options[CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS] = $message; </p>
<p>single_curl($socialcast_url, false, $options);<br />
} </p>
<p>Obviously you need to replace SHORTCODE, EMAIL and PASSWORD with your own values.  This code uses my curl library that you can find at: <a href="http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/01/26/how-to-use-curl_multi-without-blocking/" target="_blank">http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/01/26/how-to-use&#8230;</a>  </p>
<p>Hope that helps.  Feel free to email me if you need more.</p>
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		<title>By: Josh Fraser</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-804</link>
		<dc:creator>Josh Fraser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s not much for me to show, but API is super simple.  I got our integration up and running in less than 10 minutes.  I recommend you just dive in and try it out. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#039;s not much for me to show, but API is super simple.  I got our integration up and running in less than 10 minutes.  I recommend you just dive in and try it out.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Patten</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-803</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam Patten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This sounds interesting. We could use something like this as well, I&#039;m going to check it out. Thanks for the info. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This sounds interesting. We could use something like this as well, I&#039;m going to check it out. Thanks for the info.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-802</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Would you be up for sharing your code behind the  bell?  We use socialcast also and currently only display an image of a bell. Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would you be up for sharing your code behind the  bell?  We use socialcast also and currently only display an image of a bell. Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: John Bidder</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineaspect.com/2009/12/06/the-bell/comment-page-1/#comment-801</link>
		<dc:creator>John Bidder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi - we&#039;re building a sharepoint web part for socialcast - I head up business comms in local govt here in UK.  Would love to see a screen grab of your api useage and hear about any tips you found worked well for socialcast adoption.
Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi &#8211; we&#8217;re building a sharepoint web part for socialcast &#8211; I head up business comms in local govt here in UK.  Would love to see a screen grab of your api useage and hear about any tips you found worked well for socialcast adoption.<br />
Thanks</p>
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