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Yammer Creates a Private Twitter for Co-Workers
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:00 PM on September 12, 2008
Free micro-messaging service Yammer, winner of the TechCrunch50 start-up conference's top prize, creates a private Twitter-like service for companies, filtered by work-assigned email addresses. Just like with Twitter, you can send direct messages and tag replies with "@" symbols, but Yammer adds a few organisational and corporate tools to the mix, including topic tagging, clients for BlackBerries and the desktop (through Adobe Air), and an IM interface. You obviously don't want to be posting up gossip or gripes here, as not only can anyone with a corporate email sign up, but if a company wants to buy in, they get administrative control over the network. Still, Yammer looks like a great way for a company (or any group with private email addresses) overwhelmed with "Taking off early Friday" emails to keep people in the loop with less clutter.
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PatrickTulskie
Posted 12:46 AM 13/9/08
Looks interesting. I'm still waiting for my account information though...
PatrickTulskie
ViperBorg
Posted 1:11 AM 13/9/08
@helldiver: 3:00 PM...escorted from building by security.
ViperBorg
helldiver
Posted 12:57 AM 13/9/08
10:30Am...just walked in
1:30 PM...what is this pink slip on my desk?
helldiver
Cataclysm
Posted 2:00 AM 13/9/08
@agent888:
Just looked at statushq. Some pretty big differences in that the maximum group size for the free version is 5 people. Also, you have to deterimine the members of your group individually.
The cool thing about Yammer is that you are automatically put into the group of your entire company based on your email address. So anyone from your company that signs up you are automatically connected to as well as restricted to.
Cataclysm
agent888
Posted 1:50 AM 13/9/08
I think I like the looks of www.statushq.com
It does the same thing.
agent888
brs928
Posted 2:04 AM 13/9/08
Top prize?? Sure, it's got a few nice improvements over Twitter, but I don't see much innovation here. Even the interface looks like a direct rip-off.
brs928
Morton Fox
Posted 2:35 AM 13/9/08
Yammer looks like something Twitter should've done and probably could've done with minimal changes.
Morton Fox
wdarling
Posted 3:04 AM 13/9/08
Just get your officemates, esp. ones you work hand-in-hand with, to sign up for Twitter with a work email and ID and use that. That's what I would do... if I were in a position to make decisions like that in my office, that is.
wdarling
Darkmatter91
Posted 1:23 PM 13/9/08
@brs928: "Even the interface looks like a direct rip-off. " amen to that for a while i thought it was built on-top of twitter
Darkmatter91
silver-bolt
Posted 11:51 PM 13/9/08
Anyone know of a open source/free to host version that you can install/host on your own local server?
silver-bolt
simplynutty
Posted 5:10 PM 14/9/08
We're using it at Shopzilla but a lot of that has to do with a former employee being on the founding team of both Geni and Yammer. ;) Has anyone tried Group Tweet? [grouptweet.com] Seems like another alternative.
simplynutty
craig764
Posted 11:22 PM 12/9/08
Sweet. Slacking w/Worksafe apps > work. Many thanks and TGIF.
craig764
jrnewman42
Posted 12:53 AM 13/9/08
Interesting thought, and I can find it useful. However, with concerns about retention and the whole issue of the type of information that might appear on this site, would companies (especially large ones) be willing to allow such to be used, or is there too much liability?
jrnewman42
D Wiz
Posted 12:37 AM 16/9/08
@silver-bolt: Check out [laconi.ca]
D Wiz