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Yammer introduces improved iPhone app, threaded conversations

When Yammer first launched, I thought it wasn't going to last long. A Twitter for business? It sounded like an opportunistic idea to latch onto Twitter when it was clearly about to take off. Yammer has taken on a life of its own, though, and it's got the new iPhone app and threaded conversations to prove it.

The Yammer app has something that Twitter apps to date have been struggling to achieve: push notifications. These are especially important for a service like Yammer, because they alert you to new messages without using up texts on your iPhone. Yammer has also taken a page from the Facebook/Friendfeed playbook and created thread conversations that look similar to the ones you see in your Facebook activity stream. The threaded view is only available on the web, but it will come to Yammer's desktop app soon.

These are just the biggest new features. There are also countless small improvements - landscape mode and camera support for the iPhone app, for example - that you can check out on Yammer's blog.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, Web

Yammer releases new desktop client for Twitter-like business app

Yammer updateYammer is a Twitter-for-business style application that basically lets users communicate only with other users that share the same private email domain. For example, I could setup a Yammer network where I could keep up to date with other @downloadsquad.com users.

The company recently launched an updated version of its desktop client. Like the previous client, the new application is still built on Adobe AIR, which means it can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. But the new version includes a new, brighter look plus the ability to search colleagues, tags, and groups, the ability to open new threads in new windows, and the option of switching between multiple Yammer accounts.

There's also a built-in spellchecker.

Yammer is available for free, although companies that want more control over their networks can sign up for paid accounts.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Yammer is Twitter for business: What are you working on?

YammerTwitter lets you share short messages with the whole world. Yammer lets you share them with your coworkers (or anyone who has an email address on the same domain as yours).

The idea is to use social networking tools to enhance intra-office of intra-team communications. Users can post short messages to let members of their team know what they're working on, ask questions, or talk about what they saw on TV last night. There doesn't seem to be a hard 140 character limit on Yammer like there is with Twitter, so you can post longer messages. But since you're unlikely to be following thousands of users, it should be much easier to keep track of conversations on Yammer than Twitter.

In order to create a Yammer account you need to sign up with your company email account. Gmail, Yahoo!, or Hotmail addresses won't work. Once you've created an account for your company you can invite more users on the same domain or communicate with others who have already signed up.

Yammer's basic service is free and includes a web client, a desktop client built on Adobe AIR and Blackberry app. An iPhone versions is coming soon. The company charges $1 a month (per user) for administrator accounts. So if you want to be able to monitor your workplace network you'll have to pony up a few bucks. As Webware's Rafe Needleman points out, this may be an unsustainable proposition. While I can see some small businesses using Yammer, larger companies with a few dollars in the bank can easily spend some time building their own Twitter-like application if they want to. I'm not sure why anyone would need to pay for Yammer service.

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