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Put the Yammer product folks on LinkedIn and clean up the LinkedIn web and mobile products.
by perseusprime11 10y ago
Put the Yammer product folks on LinkedIn and clean up the LinkedIn web and mobile products.
- douche 10y agoI'm still not sure what purpose Yammer serves. It's basically business-y old-UI Facebook, as far as I can see. But I've never understood any of that range of products - Lotus Connections, Salesforce Chatter, Yammer, etc, etc. They feel like solutions in search of a problem.
- lmm 10y agoThe problem is semi-persistent group chats. There are a bunch of partial existing solutions, but they all have issues: * IRC: UX is pretty awful, any persistence of chats is ad-hoc and hand-rolled, plain text only, relatively high burden on sysadmins. * Jabber/MSN/Yahoo/etc.: very poor group chat support * Skype: very difficult to integrate with anything else, no support for self-hosting. * Slack/HipChat - good options, more or less contemporary, very much in direct competition with Yammer. Both more ephemeral though - IME Yammer ends up better than either, because it's just persistent enough that you can find old discussions/documentation when you need to.