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Twhirl Makes Yammer Irrelevant

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Sep 12, 2008

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Reading this news that Loic LeMeur sent me this morning, I see that Twhirl, the social software front end client, now supports any laconi.ca install. If you’re not yet up on laconi.ca , it’s an open source, run it on your own servers version of Twitter. See the flagship install of it at identi.ca.

So, to sum that all up: Twitter inside the firewall, private for your business is Twhirl+laconi.ca. Twitter outside the firewall with your business colleagues and friends is Twhirl+Twitter. Easy cheesy. One app.

Recently announced at TechCrunch50, Yammer is angling to be the Twitter for the enterprise client. Believe me, lots of companies have asked for this very thing. And while I don’t want to take away from the technical qualities of why Yammer is cool, and why it might well do the trick just fine for businesses, I’m thinking that what Loic LeMeur and the Twhirl team just did kind of trumps Yammer. Why?

Single client.

Logged into my Twhirl account, I can have a tab for Twitter, a tab for FriendFeed, and a tab for my laconi.ca install of choice. That means I can h

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Comments (9)

Jasongoldberg,

Sep 13, 2008

Any thoughts on Twirl vs. Yammer?

Jonprice,

Sep 13, 2008

Yammer is like a carbon copy of Twitter with a sneaky enterprises-will-have-to-pay-us-to-control-all-of-the-sensitive-info-their-early-adopter-users-are-going-to-be-sharing business model. oh, and there are exactly zero barriers that prevent Twitter or an install-behind-the-firewall solution like laconi.ca from killing it. FAIL to TC for picking Yammer as their big winner this year.