Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. ESME is intended to bring Twitter (or Yammer) style communication to the enterprise, running with SAP’s ‘Netweaver’ SOA (’service-oriented application’) platform. He is based in San Francisco. MORE >>

Today’s New York Times has an interesting article titled Start-Ups Test Dot-Com Business Models , which compares the business models of Twitter and Yammer (a recent start-up focusing on business micro-blogging that I wrote about in a recent review of the space ). His focus on profits helped Yammer, which is based in West Hollywood, Calif., MORE >>

As a personal learning tool, Twitter is great but it’s a public platform and what you share on it is available to everyone, some organizations may need tools which can be installed behind their firewalls (Laconica, Yonkly) or that is available as a secure private service (Yammer). Here’s what for: 1. Who is using it? MORE >>

As a messaging platform, these tools would have to support security, logging, audit and archival functions to satisfy regulatory, compliance and records management demands. go wild over this innovative project unlike Yammer???s Yammer has a business model that allows rapid uptake of their service, which is anchored around urls. MORE >>

" This got me thinking about the recent use of Yammer by a few of us at work…I was thinking about Buy-in vs Just do it (Proof of Concept). Start using Yammer as a Proof of Concept. It’s free, they host a secure network for you based on your email domain. Yammer. twingr (not sure if secure hosted). MORE >>