Yammer Completely Reworks Its Desktop Client. I Can Feel My Productivity Increasing Already.
It’s been less than a year since Yammer made its debut at TechCrunch50 (and took the top prize), but the Twitter-for-businesses has already become absolutely essential to keeping TechCrunch going on all cylinders. And we’re not the only ones — Yammer is used by over 40,000 companies, and given the uproar caused when the [...]
CrunchUp Live: Real Time Business
We’re here at the Real-Time CrunchUp, listening to the Real Time Business Panel featuring:
Porter Gale, Virgin AMerica
Adam Pisoni, Yammer
Maynard Webb, LiveOps
Eric Marcoullier, Gnip
Ross Mayfield, SocialText
John Ham, UStream
Max Ventilla, Aardvark
Tim Young, Social Cast
Follow my live notes below (paraphrased). You can also watch the live video stream here.
Gale: We have a staff person who just looks at [...]
While Sacks Plays Poker, Yammer Burns
So, as you may have seen yesterday, Yammer founder David Sacks is still alive in the World Series of Poker. In fact, he has to miss our events tomorrow because of it. But you know, there’s something that we’re missing today — Yammer.
The service has been down for a few hours now, with no [...]
Location Now Built-In To Google Maps — In Chrome And Firefox
With many of us using smartphones with GPS now, we’re starting to take for granted applications like Google Maps being able to pinpoint us. But using computer is a different story. Sure, there have been plugins, and things like Google Toolbar, but those are things that most people aren’t going to bother to install. But [...]
WSOP Update: Calacanis Out, Sacks Still In (And Bails On TechCrunch Event)
Update on the tech gurus at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. We were tracking four players: Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya, Mahalo CEO Jason Calcanis, Geni/Yammer CEO David Sacks and former Yahoo exec David Goldberg. At least two are now out of the game.
Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya busted out on day 2 [...]
