It seems like we’ve all been waiting forever for the new version of Yammer’s iPhone app, version 2.0. And we really have, it had been about a month and a half since we announced it was sitting in the App Store, waiting approval. But today, finally, it’s here — and it’s great.
The big addition here is Push Notifications. This is really a key feature since you now can see whenever someone in your network says something without having to open the app. And there are Push settings to allow you to see all messages, replies to you, direct messages, “liked” items, bookmarked items, events, and editorial items — and combinations of any of those. You can also set whether or a not a sound plays when the notification comes in (it seems to say “Yam”), and set “quiet” times; times when you don’t want to get any notifications (such as at night).
Here’s a little refresher of the other new features:
- A completely revamped compose area, including the auto-saving of drafts
- A landscape mode option
- A new camera option to attach images to Yammer messages
- A new section to see replies to you
- Much better performance since old messages are now cached
- The ability to see conversation threads
The app remains free. If you use Yammer and have an iPhone, this is clearly a must have. You can find it here.
direct appsto.re link: http://appsto.re/yammer
The iPhone Apps is becoming a multi billion industry…
It will be interesting to see where it will go in years to come.
question: how many years would it take to use 80,000 apps. where is all this really going?
how many years would it take to use 80,000 apps? where is all this really going? death to the masses?
Love it. Especially the ‘quiet time’ settings, something all apps should do if apple won’t. By the way, 6 weeks waiting on Apple. Even with a few back-and-forths, that’s pretty ridiculous. With Boxcar 2.0 & Dropbox facing the same lengths, even super popular, anticipated apps having a huge backlog to get on the store. Crazy.
Btw, can you imagine what Fammer would be like if your whole family has iPhones? Asynchronous, focused, instant communication across your immediate family while you’re on-the-go. Just saying.
Have any of you worked with Yammer on a project? I’m curious as to how ppl who have never collaborated virtually have felt about it
Disappointed.
First, it lacks native display of threaded messages. There should be some type of threading included in the messaging since this is a business app that’s probably highly used for discussions.
Yes, you can see threaded replies but only after manually selecting an icon. Don’t make me dig through that extra icon so that I can see threaded replies.
Second, no ability to like?
Third, while composing a new message you should be able to select which feed you’re posting into instead of being forced to initially change to the feed and then make your posting.
Fourth, crashes consistently for me when I click on someone’s icon.
I hold Yammer’s App to a higher standard because there’s already around a half million iPhone Twitter apps that blazed the path they’re following.
In my opinion this is a weak offering for something that was supposed to be an upgrade – yet it’s free so who am I to complain.
A sentence or two on what Yammer is might have been helpful. Guess I’m not reading TC close enough to keep up.
While I agree, there is also a company/site description after almost every techcrunch post.
http://www.crun.../company/yammer
Why in the world does approval from Apple take so long? Dang!