So, as you may have seen yesterday, Yammer founder David Sacks is still alive in the World Series of Poker. In fact, he has to miss our events tomorrow because of it. But you know, there’s something that we’re missing today — Yammer.
The service has been down for a few hours now, with no signs of coming back up. Twitter is abuzz with the failure.
So while Sacks is busy playing Poker (okay, he’s actually working today, but still), leaving comments on our blog posts, and Twittering, his startup (which we love and use everyday, by the way) is suffering. Hope you win that gold bracelet, David!
Update: It’s definitely a hardware and not a software issue, we’re told. They’re still looking into the issue.
Update 2: After several hours, it looks like Yammer is finally coming back online. Our icons still aren’t working, but messages are going through.
Update 3: Here’s Sacks on today’s issues:
Yammer experienced a rare networking hardware failure which temporarily made the site unavailable. No data was lost. The site is back up, and access to user photos has been restored.
As your article notes (despite the headline), I was in the office working all day. This is clearly a plot by Arrington to put me on tilt for tomorrow.
Here’s a video of Sacks and Jason Calacanis talking poker and their bet:
Watch Internet CEOs Play Poker at the 2009 WSOP on RawVegas.tv
He could of played poker using twitter with MiniPoker
Maybe he could HAVE learned to speaka da English on Grammer before inventing Yammer? Or should he HAVE done something else? Jeez!
Great service.
Waiting for it to get back up.
it is great. we joke because we love.
and need it come back online to do our damn work.
You guys are brutal…. give the guy a break he’s made it do day three!!!!!
DON’T
HATE!
Mahalo sucks
Noticed in the video you said the Techcrunch 50 was like “the American Idol for startups.”
People are not stupid, and audiences will like it more if you’re honest about what it is. American Idol is for UNDISCOVERED TALENT. Letting David Sacks win the Techcrunch 50 would be the equivalent of having Michael Jackson win American Idol, if we extend the analogy.
You must fix TechCrunch 50’s branding so that people can appreciate what it actually is. Stop making these transparently false analogies like, “It’s the American Idol for Startups.”
I personally would like it more if you just called it what it actually is.
why should i wish him to win?
he got $5M for a ripoff of another website, plus it’s down. He should lose just to learn a lesson.
It’s quite amusing
Fail.
Twitter clone is down? Must be a true clone.
maybe a fail duck or something should be appropriate tho
I don’t get it… You seem to be blaming him for the outage because of some poker-derived negligence, and at the same time admit that he’s in the office working? Or are you conflating two actually unrelated things?
why do people take the posts here so seriously?
Zach Coelius (@zachcoelius) CEO of Triggit is also still alive in the WSOP
Some interesting eye candy at 2:31
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People, please learn from David and start playing
your Open Source cards, this will save you the $2, $3 or $5 per user per month
u guys should get serious and stop pmp’n friends stupid websites. cause… hey, it’s international, and no one gives a sh*t about yammer; ans never will… it’s why he’s play’n poker.
I wish to play tomorrow same table
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Techcrunch is really starting to sound petty and bitchy lately. Can’t you guys find anything else to write about?
You aren’t nearly as cool as you think you are.
Poor choice of Title
See? It was only a temporary outage, like all outages that don’t result in the company going out of business. No big whoop.
hilarious!
I don’t know wether you agree, but I think everytime I see this guy he looks (and talks) more like Peter Thiel..
Same like Stoppelman imitating Sean Parker during the TC50 ventures.
It’s just funny to see these behaviours up there.
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