When Yammer, a micro-messaging service for the enterprise, launched at TechCrunch50, the biggest complaint was that the service was one big inbox, with no way to create groups or tag messages.
That hasn’t hurt growth of the company, which had 50,000 users a week after launch. But as usage grows at a company, the “all messages” tab can get a little noisy. We are using the service religiously at TechCrunch, and the signal-to-noise ratio is getting to the point where we’d really like to move discussions to different topic areas, and follow the ones that interest each of us.
Sometime this week that will happen. Yammer will have separate groups (which optionally can be private) for various topics. And users can also add a hash tags to messages, which can be followed separately as well. The service will also allow threaded comments to segment different discussions (see image below). To see the new version and see an overview video, go here, but any actual content you create on that staging version will be discarded once it goes live.
Yammer has become an indispensable part of our workflow here at TechCrunch, filling a niche for group communication that’s better than email and instant messaging. We expect to see it continue to grow quickly.
i would say twitter clone but lets be positive here. i give them credit for finding a revenue stream which twitter let get away and they are adding many features. i think reason most folks like twitter was the fact it was so primitive in features department yammer seem to not be going that route.yammer better be careful not to create so much noise that their product become cumbersome.
btw it was still bs they won tech crunch 50
Considering Present.ly launched before them and TechCrunch didn’t even include them in the competition. Such a scandal like Calacanis and his blackout drinking session during one of the conference nights.
I think the groups feature is useful
How many Yammer users are there, by the way?
“About time” is too harsh, but that’s what I’ve been thinking.
Don’t get me wrong, I love TwitterVille. It is what it is … and no more.
But I have an operational paradigm in my history: telco use a bunch of RTTY for inter-plant communications. Very informal, but absolutely mission critical. What made it all work was a tradition of grouping: you and I might both be on, say, machines 2 and 3 … but 2 was regional and 3 was more local … granularity. So I could actually ping you on either (^G ^G ^G) but would pick depending on just who I wanted to “over-hear”. Machine 1? That was national. (We used Telex for int’l.) If I called you on that one it better be something very substantial.
My 2c? Only with (read: until/unless) some actual functional drive do these things shake out. So long as it’s all “good fun” then *shrug* whatevuh.
p.s. When I was in the Arctic calling my opposite number in Cheyenne Mtn (Yes, NORAD/SAC) you can bet I had a whole number of channels to pick from. And we didn’t make a practice of being silly … “mission critical” wasn’t just bombast/hyperbole!
put the bottle down….
Crack kills.
We’re huge fans of Yammer’s clever business sign-up. So we thought we’d try it out, too:
http://www.errorhelp.com
Based on our bug.gd site, you can now start a private error search engine for your company. The idea is that a coworker (or someone online) has solved that error before– when you search there, you (and coworkers) are reminded in 48 hours to share your solution so no one has to repeat your research.
Again, Yammer’s company email verification is a great little way to target business customers and allow them to work together.
Wow, thanks for the spam. I’ll be sure and visit your website next year when it is nothing more than a bunch of paid search links.
Sorry for getting in your way, Mr. Basil. Not quite sure why you’re trying to hurt people’s feelings, but our apologies anyway.
Don’t hesitate to send us direct feedback (top link on the site) if there are ways we can improve for you.
Though discussed a million times , i still believe its hard for a firm to start off with yammer even with what-all-admin-privilages they are gonna give.At the end of it , its out in the open.
this sounds like another shill post from TC on yammer, come on we don’t need any yammer for enterprise that runs out of company firewalls…all those users are just testing it, no real productivity here
The hashtags have been there since the beginning. And besides Present.ly Socialcast should get a mention!
YammerMail.com already works with the hashtags, the hash tags are indeed there since the beginning!
annoyed by the auto emails at yammer telling me they miss me?
We haven’t heard from you lately.? i just signed up to see what was going on, never used it.. okay maybe i will, but the auto emails are annoying.
Dear philip tadros,
We haven’t heard from you lately. You can post an update to the philcoextra.com network by replying to this email.
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* Say what you’re doing.
* Start a discussion.
* Share a link or news item.
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Absolutely awesome but there’s still that problem of being third party software running outside the firewall. My company just won’t go for it.
Don’t forget SocialCast.com
Overall, we find this to be a much more complete business tool than Yammer or Present.ly
http://www.socialcast.com
groups. thank goodness.
thnx
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