Microsoft Embedded Social

GitHub announced GitHub Discussions. It has many of the features that ES provides — user profiles, topics, comments, replies, likes, feeds, etc. You can see some discussions here (opens in new tab)

May 2020

Uber announced “Group Ordering for Uber Eats.” As we demonstrate in one of our concept videos (opens in new tab), social ordering of food and beverages is a powerful way to increase user engagement.

December 2019

Snackpass raised a $21M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz partner Andrew Chen (opens in new tab). They enable social food ordering as well as a social feed of activity.

December 2019

Postmates debuted group orders for friends. “It’s the easiest way to eat with all your friends, without having to know what all your friends want to eat.”. This is an excellent way to increase user engagement.

August 2019

The Information states that “it is quite clear that a race is on between companies like Facebook, Apple, and more to provide identity and messaging infrastructure for lots of social products. In a sense, one powerful future for Facebook, which has long been acknowledged but never realized, is that it could become a platform for not just its own family of apps, but for any number of new social networking–oriented projects. It will, however, be a long road for them to get there and overcome both the technical hurdles and … The multibillion-dollar questions remain—exactly which next generation networks will break out, and who will be providing the low-level social infrastructure on which they are built?”

December 2019