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Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

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Re: Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

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Post by wheels »

Well, if IT departments do decide to block it it shouldn't be too hard -- all they'd have to do is to filter out the confirmation mails on the corporate spam filter. Those have to being sent since the system is keyed on where your email address is.

The question is if IT departments would respond fast enough for there to not be a pile of data sitting around when they discover it.

Though, as I've mentioned previously, I actually like the idea. Having something like this at the last company I worked for would have saved product managers from the various projects I was working on from having to come around to see what was on my schedule for the next day or two or when I could get around to that something-or-another issue. Granted, I didn't sift through the rest of the TC50 companies, so I don't know how they stack up to the competition.

Re: Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

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Post by sabat »

Forgetting everything else, I would imagine that the TC50 winner would be a company with a much more innovative idea than Twitter for the 'enterprise'.

(Not to mention: 'enterprise' budgets are under severe constraint these days, so getting money to pay for a Twitter clone is unlikely.)

Re: Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

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Post by pxlpshr »

There's a lot of hate being thrown Yammer's way because it's a twitter-clone, but I thought Yammer was brilliantly executed with additional layers of their own innovation. They have what Twitter does not: a very viable subscription model. Could be a nice acquisition for LinkedIn if you ask me.

I do agree though with the general consensus that it should not have been the winner. I thought OtherInbox was leaps and bounds more innovative.

Re: Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

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Post by jmacd »

sabat wrote: post #5

Forgetting everything else, I would imagine that the TC50 winner would be a company with a much more innovative idea than Twitter for the 'enterprise'. (Not to mention: 'enterprise' budgets are under severe constraint these days, so getting money to pay for a Twitter clone is unlikely.)

Sure, IT budgets are growing more slowly than they used to, but they are still bigger than they have ever been.

The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable. Stop making things up.

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