Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
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Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
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Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#2I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does.
> This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.”
I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say.
> At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that later became today’s Hall. “That’s where I learned we needed a better way to communicate,” he says.
What was that better way??!? Better than what? He doesn't say.
These "articles" don't try to inform, they just throw buzz words around; they are instruments for companies to do PR, but the reader is the victim.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#3I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does. > This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.” I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say. > At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that l…
Full disclosure: Yammer is owned and operated by Microsoft.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#4I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does. > This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.” I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say. > At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that l…
Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#5I read the article top to bottom and couldn't figure out what it is that Hall does. > This startup is interested in building what comes next after the “social intranet.” I don't know what the social intranet is or was, I certainly have no idea "what comes next" -- and the article doesn't say. > At Intuit, Hellman was the only person on his team at the Mountain View office, which led to the original inspiration that l…
Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.
Every page on the site redirects to a login/signup page on my iPhone. I cannot read anything about the product or company.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#6The first comment is a self promoting alternative (daPulse) whose website looks very similar and whose product, much like the one being promoted, just looks like a slightly different Yammer. This seems to be an unnecessarily crowded space.
EDIT: Not the first comment...just the top one at the time I read the article (didn't realize comments on TC are sorted as newest first by default)
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#7The first comment is a self promoting alternative (daPulse) whose website looks very similar and whose product, much like the one being promoted, just looks like a slightly different Yammer. This seems to be an unnecessarily crowded space. EDIT: Not the first comment...just the top one at the time I read the article (didn't realize comments on TC are sorted as newest first by default)
aguynamedrich, What Yammer did well is reinvent the social intranet for making announcements inside the firewall. It allowed for one person inside a company of 1000s to broadcast to the entire company.
What Yammer never had a chance to perfect before being purchased/killed was how to be the place where people actually work... The way people work has changed in the last few years. People are working 24/7, using multiple devices, working in distributed teams, in teams that are cross-company etc... These changes making communicating in real-time a necessity which is why Hall is focused on real-time communications.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi bambax, I'm one of the founders here at Hall. Apologies for any frustration... Does visiting our landing page help? https://hall.com . If not, send me an email at brett @ hall-inc.com . I'd be happy to give you a live demo.
Every page on the site redirects to a login/signup page on my iPhone. I cannot read anything about the product or company.
That's a mobile redirect bug on our end. Thanks for pointing this out. Expect an update soon.
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#9The first comment is a self promoting alternative (daPulse) whose website looks very similar and whose product, much like the one being promoted, just looks like a slightly different Yammer. This seems to be an unnecessarily crowded space. EDIT: Not the first comment...just the top one at the time I read the article (didn't realize comments on TC are sorted as newest first by default)
aguynamedrich, What Yammer did well is reinvent the social intranet for making announcements inside the firewall. It allowed for one person inside a company of 1000s to broadcast to the entire company. What Yammer never had a chance to perfect before being purchased/killed was how to be the place where people actually work... The way people work has changed in the last few years. People are working 24/7, using multip…
So how do you guys solve the issue of most "enterprise social software" being nothing but a fairly shallow replacement for / complement to, email?
(Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a startup that's also playing in this space (depending on how broadly you define "this space"), and I don't really know if we're competitors or not!)
Re: Real-Time Yammer Competitor Hall Launches New Apps
#10"Real-Time Yammer", social intranet... The enterprise jargon in this article makes it almost impossible to understand that Hall seems to be just another group chat tool for companies similar to Hipchat and Flowdock.