Startup Huddle wins Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 contest

Asked to build a social SharePoint app in a week, seven startups competed and came up with some amazing apps

On Friday, Microsoft announced that Huddle was the winner of a weeklong, invitational contest, in which seven startups were challenged to build a social app for SharePoint 2010 in just one week. But all seven applications had wow power. Huddle won for its SharePoint add-in that lets enterprise teams invite external users into their daily SharePoint workflow, synchronize their SharePoint document libraries with content stored on the Huddle network, or even on other SharePoint sites. SharePoint users can also gain access to their files through Huddle’s online, mobile and desktop applications.

Huddle is the Microsoft Office-friendly alternative to Google Apps, meaning, with the Huddle Office Plug-In, it provides a cloud/mobile counterpart for Office files. It already has thousands of users, the company says. Huddle’s cloud-based workspaces can be used to mange projects, share information, collaborate on content and run meetings with teams outside the firewall. With the tool the team beat this week, SharePoint can integrated as well.

Huddle, a London, UK-based software-as-a-service startup, was founded in 2006.

Here are links to the six other startups that built SharePoint 2010 apps, and a screenshot of the apps they built.

Calinda MindUP

Confer

Cortex Intelligence's

Leverage Software DesignSpace

Liaise for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Loqu8 Prelude

• Microsoft
• Calinda
• collaboration
• Huddle
• Loq8
• SharePoint 2010
• social networking