Twitter went main street yesterday, goes enterprise today
Last month, micro-blogging site Twitter went mainstream, at least according to my own litmus test: The hosts of my local radio station here in the Bay Area talked about a guy who lost his job offer from Cisco for tweeting how he hated the job. And my hairdresser told me she finally was on Twitter, after saying in February she’d never heard of it. Twitter is everywhere.
And now, in April, Twitter is going one step… Continue Reading
Is the social stream the new email?
During the “Feed Me: Bite Size Info for a Hungry Internet” panel today at SXSW (moderated by VentureBeat’s own Eric Eldon) all the participants agreed that social streams of data are going to be an integral part of the web going forward. David Sacks, the chief executive of Yammer, went farther, calling these streams “email 2.0.” No one seemed to disagree.
With Facebook’s new redesign now fully in place and focusing on real-time updates in your… Continue Reading
Twitter-for-business service Yammer moves into lifestreaming for business
Yammer, the company that offers a Twitter-like micromessaging service for businesses, has released a wide-ranging set of new features today that make it even easier for coworkers to communicate. Perhaps most prominently, the company now lets you import, share and discuss RSS feeds from other web sites. This means you can track anything from news reports to competing companies’ blogs to others’ Twitter messages.
For those who aren’t familiar, Yammer works by letting you send short… Continue Reading
Yammer ups bet on the “Twitter for business” market
This could be the year that micro-messaging makes it big with businesses, Yammer is betting. The company lets employees share 140-character messages about what they’re working on — a simple intranet to help communicate more quickly than through masses of emails and phone calls. It has raised $5 million from the Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures, founder David Sacks tells TechCrunch.
I’d be interested to hear specific ways that Yammer saves companies time and money… Continue Reading
Stop those long email chains — Yammermail brings email forwarding to business messaging service Yammer
Yammer, the “Twitter for Business” company that won the Techcrunch50 conference best-in-show award earlier this month, launched an application programming interface last week. The API lets other companies build additional features. Today, a startup called Yammermail has used the API to launch a new feature I’ve been wanting, well, since before I heard about Yammer.
It offers two ways to forward email to Yammer’s streaming feed of short messages to tell colleagues what you’re up to.
Both… Continue Reading
TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat
When Yammer presented at TechCrunch50, I wasn’t so sure about it. The company offers a service that’s the business version of micro-messaging company Twitter. You leave short messages about what you’re doing, your co-workers do the same, and everyone can view what everyone else is doing in a running stream showing the latest activity. Conceptually, this is a great way to quickly stay in touch with the people you need to communicate with.
And the company… Continue Reading
TC50: Yammer launches as a Twitter for businesses, unless you want the open-source version
Twitter is great. Send short (140-character messages) about what you’re doing right now and read the mercifully short yet informative messages from friends. So Yammer, launching today (and pictured above), wants to be the Twitter for businesses. It asks “what are you working on right now?” so you and your coworkers can more easily keep track of each other.
The problem is that the basic features are easy to build — as Rafe Needleman worries, over… Continue Reading
TC50: Enterprise session roundup
Internet’s working a little better here at the TechCrunch50 conference. Here’s a summary of the last session:
Fair Software
Many software developers these days often freelance on multiple projects with various other developers. This results in complicated and sometimes messy pay arrangements. Fair Software offers a project management tool to simplify the process — and includes legally binding agreements to help build, um, trust between contracted coworkers.
Yammer
A sort of Twitter but for work groups, where employees… Continue Reading