So you recreated a Facebook Group outside of Facebook?
StartupGuild 2.0
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Re: StartupGuild 2.0
#12So you recreated a Facebook Group outside of Facebook?
Technically, Yammer created Facebook groups outside of Facebook. It's a bit strange, but I think he chose a nice tool to facilitate the group.
Re: StartupGuild 2.0
#13StartupGuild is like the Facebook activity stream you wish you had... :)
Great call on going w/ Yammer
Re: StartupGuild 2.0
#14A few questions have been coming in about the you@startupguild.net email address. Hopefully these notes will answer those questions:
- The main purpose of the email address is for the signup process with Yammer
- We are not suggesting the email address becomes your new general email address
- The email address is simply a forwarder to your normal email address
- We do this because Yammer requires that all users have the same root email domain
- We are unable to offer short versions of the email address all users have firstname.lastname format
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#15The only problem with the StartupGuild on Yammer is that I'll spend even more time on social networks and less time on getting actual work done ;(
But I like it!
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#16A few questions have been coming in about the you@startupguild.net email address. Hopefully these notes will answer those questions: - The main purpose of the email address is for the signup process with Yammer - We are not suggesting the email address becomes your new general email address - The email address is simply a forwarder to your normal email address - We do this because Yammer requires that all users have…
Exactly. Yammer is cool because it is focused on professional/enterprise social networks, but broken because it doesn't recognize that people want to create adhoc social networks to work together.
Re: StartupGuild 2.0
#17So you recreated a Facebook Group outside of Facebook?
I would not join Startup Guild if it required me to have a facebook account. So thank god for that.
Also - I find it ironic that you would think that a monolithic service such as facebook would be the obvious tool for scrappy groups of startup wantrepreneurs.