Enterprise social networking firm Socialtext decided to release a mobile version of its services because "work is increasingly mobile." Socialtext Mobile, out today, offers similar functionality to the desktop version, including Twitter-like microblogging, Activity Streams and Workplaces for collaboration.

Rather than develop for specific platforms, the browser-based Socialtext Mobile is accessible across different mobile devices. Blackberry, iPhone and Android devices are all supported in today's beta release.

"Not doing multiple platform versions is less of a burden on IT," Socialtext Chairman and co-founder Ross Mayfield, told InternetNews.com. "I look at this as a new way of accessing our tools, not necessarily new functionality. We have architected to develop these types of things, like mobile, relatively quickly and part of the value here should be broader accessibility."

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