Over a year after a third-party app was released for Yammer users with an Android, Yammer have decided it’s time to release their own official app to compliment their service which enables people working within a company or group to send updates as to what they’re doing which is fed into a constant stream, like Twitter.
The app can be ran in the background while you use the phone on a day to day basis. It will vibrate or make a noise when the stream is updated by a colleague answering the boilerplate Yammer question, ‘What are you doing?’
The pre-release version is still reported to contain many bugs and I doubt it will be ready until late Spring of next year.
I think that this app will make switching from the iPhone to cheaper android devices much easier. Many people depend on Apple’s device purely because of the apps – now with many alternatives in the hands of the competitors, the iPhone could be in trouble. Expect a price drop in early 2010.
After three days of presenters and presentations, the dust has settled and cleared. Yammer was announced the winner of this years TechCrunch50, so a big congr
ats to them.
Yammer is a Twitter based internal corporate communications tool for businesses. They provide a great model for companies to use Twitter inside their company in a closed and private way where employees can sign up and communicate with their co-workers across the company’s network. This is an excellent idea and looks to unite people across different departments without having to pick up a phone or physically walk to them.
The catch to their monetization process is this, if the company itself wants full control of the chatter and its employees, that’s when the model turns profitable and businesses pay into the service. TechCrunch‘s article states “There is such a huge demand for this type of service that 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations signed up for the service the first day it launched on Monday.”
Pretty amazing numbers that only look to go up in the coming months as internal corporate communication tools will be a necessity for day to day operations. If you’re in a business looking to building community amongst your employees, definitely check out Yammer.
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