Twitter went main street yesterday, goes enterprise today

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…. Continue Reading

Is the social stream the new email?

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… Continue Reading

Twitter-for-business service Yammer moves into lifestreaming for business

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… Continue Reading

Yammer ups bet on the “Twitter for business” market

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… Continue Reading

Stop those long email chains — Yammermail brings email forwarding to business messaging service Yammer

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… Continue Reading

TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

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… Continue Reading

TC50: Yammer launches as a Twitter for businesses, unless you want the open-source version

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… Continue Reading

TC50: Enterprise session roundup

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… Continue Reading