Last week I was talking to one of the app developers working at a large enterprise. He was very proudly telling about his new internal application and how it looks like combination of Facebook and Google+ pages. When I reflected upon this conversation a little later, I realised that this is a very common demand from most users or business heads to have a FB like application. What exactly is happening on the enterprise app side? I see a few trends here:

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