iPhoneCTO - July 14, 2009

The Yammer iPhone client is superb; a delicate blend of UI functionality that brings the best of Yammer to the palm of your hand. In an instant, you can gain situational awareness and respond to issues. Best of all, Yammer clients support threaded messaging and raises the bar past (way past) 140 characters. Yammer takes the philosophical idea of short messaging to a new level with a variety of features that businesses cannot live without.

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The New York Times - October 23, 2008

E-mail no longer serves its proper purpose, which is to request an active response, Mr. Sacks said. All the rest of the stuff that clogs in-boxes — mass e-mails sharing a link to an article, for example, or notifications of company events — makes e-mail less efficient. He wants to move all that to Yammer.

Mr. Sacks believes that Yammer can rise above all that. “If we’re successful, ultimately people will see e-mail and I.M. as simply delivery channels for Yammer content,” he said.

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Washington Post - October 22, 2008

Twitter may have amassed a sizable following, but six weeks after its launch, microblogging service Yammer--or Twitter with a business model as its being called--is already bringing in revenue.

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New York Times - October 20, 2008

Yammer tweaks the question, asking, “What are you working on?” The goal, said its chief executive, David Sacks, is to make offices more productive. People on Yammer update colleagues on company events or ask work-related questions without clogging e-mail boxes with mass mailings.

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Sept 12, 2008:

When I first heard that Yammer (the “twitter for business” startup) had won TechCrunch50, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I’ve been using Backpack’s Journal feature to do something similar with an agency that I do work with, and I immediately saw the value. It’s interesting to see what other developers or designers are up to. For a freelancer, Twitter itself is almost like working in an office, and I can see the value of doing something like a mini-twitter just within your organization.

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Condé Nast Portfolio Sept 11, 2008:

Yammer, which has been described as Twitter with a business model has won the top prize at the TechCrunch50 start-up conference.

Some 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations signed up for the service when it launched on Monday, according to TechCrunch. Conference organizers Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis awarded Yammer $50,000 for taking the top spot at the conference.

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PC Magazine Sept 11, 2008:

At the end, the last company standing, deemed the "most likely to succeed" and getting a good catapult from the top honor itself, was Yammer, which asks corporate workers the question "What are you working on now?" in the vein of the Twitter microblogging internet service, which has gained huge popularity among the tech set. Yammer takes the Twitter idea and tailors it to corporations' needs, with access only to those having a valid company email address.

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San Francisco Chronicle Sept 10, 2008:

"You guys have absolutely no idea what you're in store for," Mint founder Aaron Patzer told finalists for the award at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse. "Launching at Tech Crunch 40 was the most important seven mintues of my professional life."

Several sites were considered to be favorites to win this year, based on the positive reception they received from the panel of judges.

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Los Angeles Times Sept 10, 2008:

After three days and presentations from 52 companies, Yammer, a Los Angeles start-up that spun out of genealogy company Geni, won the top prize at TechCrunch50 tonight.

"The judges loved you across the board," Arrington said.

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