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Sep 16 2008

Through the Filter 09/16/2008

Published by Art Gelwicks under web sites

  • Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right? - ReadWriteWeb

    I’m in complete agreement with this assessment. From an enterprise standpoint this thing is a nuisance at best and a serious problem at worst. Aside from having almost no value without some sort of a desktop client (I know there’s an Adobe Air one…ever heard of “locked desktop?”) to a design and interface that looks like a bad photocopy of Twitter, this may have won the day but it’s certainly going to lose the war.

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    • The reason Yammer was considered brilliant was that it had a “cunning revenue model”. Let me see if I’ve got this right. You use Yammer rather than Twitter to restrict the Followers to your colleagues. So you can discuss company secrets really securely. (That, by the way, was a joke!) You use your corporate email ID (Gmail, Yahoo etc not allowed). All that is free, so massive viral adoption. Then companies want to claim/control the conversation. So they pay for all users on Yammer with a corporate email ID.

      Yep that is cunning all right. Other words come to mind as well.

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Sep 13 2008

Through the Filter 09/13/2008

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  • Techdirt: University Bans Access To Facebook; Claims It’s A Security Issue

    When uniformed policies such as these are enacted at the collegiate level it only raises the level of confusion for public and private schools.

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    • Concordia University has banned access to Facebook on any computer connected to the university network via a wired connection. If you’re using WiFi, the university allows it. First of all, that seems like a really strange split. Why should it matter whether the connection is wired or wireless? Even odder is the explanation for this:


      The university has decided to implement these restrictions because of concerns that the continuing reliability of the Concordia network could be compromised because of spam, viruses and leaks of confidential information related to Facebook use.

      There are spam, viruses and leaks of confidential info all over the internet. So why ban Facebook? And those same issues face wireless users as well as wired users. The whole thing sounds like someone who was very confused overreacted to something in the wrong way.

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Sep 10 2008

Through the Filter 09/10/2008

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Sep 09 2008

Through the Filter 09/09/2008

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Sep 05 2008

Through the Filter 09/05/2008

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