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el 12-Sep-2008 |  I decided to try Yammer yesterday, but never got the confirmation email (I am sure it got stuck in one of my spam filters), so at this point, I haven't yet tried it. I am sure it's very good because it won the TC50 top prize and that's an impressive feat.
Mark Evans says that many bloggers have been "hammering yammer" for not being innovative or unique. If that's true, and I've missed those posts, then I agree with Mark. Taking a new mode of communication (microblogging) and retooling it for the enterprise certainly seems like a good move.
However, I am not sure that's such an easy thing to do. As my friend Charlie pointed out to me in a private Twitter exchange yesterday, there have been many "enterprise IM" solutions over the years, but employees have resisted the desires of their employers to determine what IM solution they use, and most have continued to use AIM, or to a lesser extent, Yahoo! and Microsoft's IM offerings, often via a third party client.
The same is largely true of blogging services. Though there are plenty of "enterprise focused" social media solutions, most corporate blogs are built on WordPress or TypePad or even Blogger.
This is one of the reasons we've struggled so hard to invest in "enterprise 2.0" at Union Square Ventures. We have tried pretty hard to find companies that we can invest in that bring the new Web technologies to the enterprise, but often we've found what happens is that consumers (i.e. employees) bring the Web technologies they use every day to work and they prefer that.
I guess time will tell whether Yammer is a better way to talk inside an organization versus a third party service built on Twitter (or possibly a private groups feature in Twitter although I have no idea if that's coming). But recent history suggests to me that it's not a slam dunk. And so I commend the Yammer team for trying something that is not easy, that is not simple, and that if they get right, will be very valuable.
SAI contributor Fred Wilson is a partner at Union Square Ventures. He writes the influential A VC  , where this post was originally published.
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| Build: Phenakistoscope |  This week we are going to continue with the “moving picture” theme and build a Phenakistoscope. Luckily for all of us, it’s a lot easier to build than it is to pronounce. Even better, you the first thing you need to do is eat a lollypop! Why? Well, read on.
So the big question is, what [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| Implementation Focus: SDL |  Stuart Grimshaw, Martin Smyllie and Liam Jolly of SDL have been integrating YUI into the framework that underlies their enterprise-level Global Information Management products. As they prepare for the first production deployment of this framework, known internally as the “Common Enterprise Application Framework” (CEAF), they took some time to discuss with us how the [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Nov-2008 by Eric Miraglia in YUI Implementations
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| Build: Solar Theremin |  Jim sent me one of his Solar Theremin kits for this weeks build. My initial impressions of the kit are really good. It is very well documented and everything you need is included, except for the mint tin or case. In particular, I like the full color build instructions and schematics. I highly recommend building [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jul-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 - To Be Announced at WES 2008? |  We’ve heard about BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 for over a year now. At WES 2007, ARGON was announced publically for the first time. From there on, it has been a slow and painful road through continual disappointment and delay. The plan was to have a very extensive nine month Beta program that would commence in [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Apr-2008 by Jibi in BlackBerrySoftwareRIM
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| And now for the enterprise ... | | For Amazon.com's utility-computing operation, Amazon Web Services, 2009 will be a crucial year, as the company is looking to expand beyond its traditional customer base of web developers and other relatively small-scale operators and push its services into the heart of the enterprise market. AWS is hoping to capitalize on the current economic climate, where cash, suddenly, is in short supply, to c [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Oct-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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