Workstreamer, a new startup dealing with business-oriented social media networking, has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Austin Ventures. As Workstreamer is currently in private beta for its alpha testing, there’s not too much first hand information we can provide. But according to Workstreamer, the company will be combining social media, streaming information and professional networking for the purpose of “creating and capturing real-time work activity between individuals and businesses.”

From the looks of it, Workstreamer will be looking to take professional social networking to the next level, with features that may resemble updating tools, imported RSS feeds, related news items, and a few networking options with other users. Some of these features are already included in dedicated professional networks like LinkedIn, and Facebook has a number of existing social networking features and is heavily utilized for professional networking though this was not the site’s initial intent.
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