Comments on: Yammer goes down, companies all over go silent

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:13:20 +0000

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Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:32:24 +0000

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Yammer Aims To Bring Microsharing Inside Corporate Firewalls — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:22:22 +0000

[...] We’re quite happily using it internally here at TechCrunch, although it’s had its uptime problems [...]

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:17:19 +0000

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By: Twitter in the Enterprise: Yammer and other microsharing / microblogging products « Web 2.0 and Management

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:30:29 +0000

[...] Yammer goes down, companies all over go silent (BBC is using Yammer) [...]

By: Steve Bowbrick

Steve Bowbrick — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:32:57 +0000

Over 600 users on the BBC’s Yammer account now…

By: Mukul Joshi @ Techzemplary

Mukul Joshi @ Techzemplary — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:34:41 +0000

I second you Dennis. Well said!

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:06:29 +0000

At the risk of stating the obvious, the current trend of offering ‘in the cloud’ messaging for corporate entities is a doomed strategy. Enterprise has an entirely different model that reflects issues such as confidentiality and governance. That means behind the firewall solutions. However, those same solutions need other attributes such as federation to allow for the controlled rollout of departments and then potentially across the supply chain. But even that isn’t enough.

Content with out purpose or context is meaningless. Therefore, to be truly successful and deliver demonstrable business value, such systems have to be integrated into the fabric of operations. That also has design implications.

These are not trivial issues, as every provider has found.

By: Envy

Envy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:42:23 +0000

you are correct, but then again, everything that uses RoR has scaling issues, name one that does not.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:25:55 +0000

Twitter will have a professional and corporate version, that includes groups, in the next six months. it will cost $10-20 a year and it will be amazing.

Not sure it will be amazing enough for Mahalo to switch our Yammer group to Twitter, but who knows. Frankly, it’s great to have two separate systems: one for personal and one professional.

By: Neel

Neel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:36:26 +0000

I was finding Yammer very useful for a while until it stopped letting me post via email – everything started getting blocked by their spam filters for some reason. asked them why on their forums but no response after a week. if anyone from Yammer is listening, what gives?

By: Yammer takes hammering; down in the UK | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:35:00 +0000

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By: Dann

Dann — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:20:44 +0000

“Twitter went down, so useful had it become. Even Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis once decided Twitter was so crucial to his business that he would pay $100 a year for a premium account. ”

If Jason Calacanis uses it, it must be bad. If his business uses it, you know it’s bad.

By: juliejulie

juliejulie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:11:27 +0000

This is the saddest story I’ve ever heard…I’m crying in my cupcake as I type.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:31 +0000

Same one here in German!
Too bad that some companies never pay attention to that.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:48 +0000

I’m actually the director general of the BBC and after suspending Jonathon Ross for 3 months i’m now about to cancel the xmas party for all, i hope you’re pleased with yourself julie.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:45 +0000

What up? It works all right over there in Europe! But I think we’ll never use it.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:54:08 +0000

OMG!!! THEY WILL HAVE TO USE EMAIL NOW!!! WORSE, THEY WILL HAVE TO TALK TO EACHOTHER ON THE PHONE USING FULL SENTENCES!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!

By: Anthony Farrior

Anthony Farrior — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:39:21 +0000

IT’s because I wore my yammer shirt under my work shirt today right? Man! It worked for the Phillies, what happened?

Unfortunately Yammer is running off of Twitter whose running off of ruby on rails, so history should’ve taught somebody something…

By: juliejulie

juliejulie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:25:44 +0000

Oh Brian, you tease! I sure hope you’re a janitor…

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:22:02 +0000

It’s up again, at least for me.

By: Josh Knauer

Josh Knauer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:12:35 +0000

It is amazing to me that so many companies are willing to jump to business-critical web services like this, controlled by third-parties without any real accountability.

By: Mark T. Clemente

Mark T. Clemente — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:01:09 +0000

We have been using Yammer at my company for the last two months and have found it very useful as a collaborative tool. We have not experienced any outages since we started using it. We have maybe a dozen users using a combination of the desktop application and the mobile and web apps.

No Complaints about Yammer here!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:39 +0000

I suppose its one of the few times each year that ‘chubbymommies’ get any action from the drunken office juniors.