Seven top Microsoft BizSpark startups building enterprise collaboration applications, spent last week in a coding marathon at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. With round-the-clock assistance from SharePoint engineers, pizza, and healthy competition, these startups spent the week coding late into the night, enhancing their applications by utilizing the collaboration features of SharePoint 2010.

Huddle.net, a UK startup won the competition which was judged by a panel of experts from industry and the investor community. Check out what the seven companies built and hear what their founders have to say!

Thousands of businesses globally use Huddle online workspaces to mange projects, share information, collaborate on content and run meetings with teams outside the firewall. With Huddle for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, enterprise teams can invite external users into their daily workflow and 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.

 

 

Overload of “Re: Re: Re: Project X Follow-up” – Knowledge workers face issues collaborating in email. Lost attachments, scattered project information, poor accountability. Calinda MindUP works with any email application such as Microsoft Outlook to automatically capture, organize and structure email interactions. It creates visual maps of all messages and attachments sent and received in an email conversation. At Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SocialFest, Calinda developed a SharePoint 2010 “mail space” which groups related conversations, helping teams get a view of their projects, enhancing collaboration.

 

 

Confer's SharePoint 2010 integration extends the simplicity of Confer’s microblogging web application into an organization's SharePoint installation. Confer bridges the gap between internal and external employees, and simplifies the communication process.

 

 

Cortex Intelligence’s market intelligence service for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 allows SharePoint 2010 users to pull-in relevant data from external sources as SharePoint webparts. The types of information include quantitative market data, text mining-enriched news articles and qualified social media data. Cortex’ SharePoint webparts also integrate with SharePoint’s collaboration features, enabling users to share, discuss and act on the insights triggered by the market intelligence.

 

 

Email goes social! Find yourself sending files, photos, mockups, and other information to your colleagues and clients but then drowning in their responses? Need a better way to organize those conversations and quickly bring people together? Leverage Software DesignSpace transforms a set of email threads into an on-demand social workspace - automatically, with no data entry or administration required - and then lets you share that information with others in your company through Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

 

 

Liaise for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 turns text in email messages into structured KeyPoints (actions/issues, due dates, people and priorities) and ensures SharePoint is always up-to-date by automatically feeding messages, KeyPoints and attachments into SharePoint, providing real-time updates to: Task/Issue Lists, Discussion Boards, Site Calendars and Documents.

 

 

Loqu8 Prelude integrates Microsoft SharePoint 2010 lists and search results into a pop-up window that is contextual to the work they are doing. From applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., users can instantly access their SharePoint data by hovering their mouse over a word in their document. The Loqu8 Prelude pop-up window will display contextually relevant information from SharePoint.