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Re: Facebook launches web search using Microsoft Live — and its own search engine? (Updated)

eldon — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:57:17 -0000

Yah, updated.

Re: Stop those long emails chains — Yammermail brings email forwarding to business messaging service Yammer

eldon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:47:23 -0000

Yammer provides additional security/enterprise control features for a fee -- its revenue stream.

Here's more:

https://www.yammer.com/company/privacy
https://www.yammer.com/company/security
https://www.yammer.com/company/claim

Re: Stop those long emails chains — Yammermail brings email forwarding to business messaging service Yammer

eldon — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:43:33 -0000

Yammer only lets you forward subject lines and doesn't currently let you see the emails themselves -- but yeah, I see your point.

Re: Facebook’s Lexicon dives deeper to show you what’s hot with Facebook users

eldon — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:49:40 -0000

Peter, I agree. I wonder if letting third parties track custom data is going to be a premium service? Might be an interesting secondary revenue model.

Re: New York investor/incubator Betaworks raises new fund

eldon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:11:56 -0000

Sorry, I wasn't clear about the change. Added a link to our previous coverage.

Re: TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

eldon — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:12:02 -0000

"You show up often enough in TC's comments to make your role here suspicious." Steven, how about you go tally up the number of comments I've made on TechCrunch then try telling me that.

You're the one with a distorted since of what objectivity is, and I find it insulting given the work I put into reporting.

Go take a look at all of the other TechCrunch sponsors who didn't even make it into TC50. Go take a look at the other TC50 sponsors who didn't get any sort of positive recognition within the competition. Yammer won because it's an interesting idea. I've very pointedly noted the issues with it, both in my previous post and in this one.

In general, I find it really annoying when people who are clearly not trying to be objective try to give journalists lessons on objectivity.

Re: TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

eldon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:28:51 -0000

Bob, Geni isn't a TechCrunch sponsor: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/par...

In any case, it sounds like you've already answered your own question.

Re: TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat

eldon — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:27:00 -0000

JD,

Well, Presently is one of the 11 companies cited by Owyang, which I already linked to, above. Why are you asking how Yammer compares to Presently versus the others mentioned?

Re: TC50: Yammer launches as a Twitter for businesses, get your open-source version here

eldon — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:07:50 -0000

LinkedIn is more of a social network, this is more of a day-to-day productivity tool.

Re: TC50: Live-blogging the Peter Thiel interview

eldon — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:11:35 -0000

Yes.

Re: MySpace China CEO quits; yet another U.S. tech company struggles in China

eldon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:30:07 -0000

I meant Sohu. It was a stupid mistake. Sorry about that. I've fixed. For more on the localization issue, see this article: http://www.chinavortex.com/2008/09/myspace-chin...

Re: Offerpal launches game monetization service for MySpace, responds to criticism

eldon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:13:24 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Adam. Be in touch!

Re: Our review: Chrome More Than Capable of Taking on IE and Firefox

eldon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:21:27 -0000

What do you mean by "really draconian."

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:27:46 -0000

Reader, I'm really sorry to hear that you feel this way. As you know, we sometimes publish hot rumors in order to explain why we don't believe them. That's what I did here. You know that nearly all of my articles are focused on the facts, first. Hopefully, some of those ones will keep you reading us. :)

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:25:25 -0000

Exactly.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:25:02 -0000

Thanks, Andreas.

Re: Say goodbye to suburbia: California moves to cut urban sprawl

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:03:34 -0000

FC, I'm giving you one guess to figure out which California city Chris lives in (and yes, he also rides his bike around a lot).

That said, I love LA, but I think that's because I have friends down there who have cars. The fact that LA is so decentralized makes it harder for newcomers to get a good appreciation for the place. If there were an easier way for people to discover the thousands of little communities and scenes there, it'd be a different story.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:38:16 -0000

Please read the article again, John.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:01:38 -0000

Thanks, Jeff

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:49:34 -0000

Thanks, Mark.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:02:46 -0000

That's a fair point. I only wrote about this because it was intriguing (to me) even if it appeared unlikely.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:00:43 -0000

I meant Facebook. I contacted them since I know them better and figured I had a better chance of hearing back at all. I will grant you that the LDS response was impressively quick.

W/r/t "overzealous posting" -- this is the blogosphere and anyway, my angle was that this is probably not true.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:38:25 -0000

Please see my previous comments and the update. Thanks.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:37:39 -0000

I did my research as much as I was able before publishing, Jesse. Why would you have preferred I not run this? I tried to contact Facebook's PR. LDS's PR got back to Brim-DeForest well after I'd published.

Re: Rumor from the news doldrums of August: Mormon church trying to buy Facebook

eldon — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:36:32 -0000

Some Guy, like I said, above, I'd contacted Facebook's PR department -- I know them a lot better than LDS's, as you might expect.

I think I was clear in my original post about what facts I knew and didn't know. It's an interesting enough story, with enough suggestions of fact, that I thought our readers should know about it.