Yammer Wins TechCrunch 50

UPDATE 2: Adele McAlear just posted this great, thorough writeup of Yammer’s features, pros and cons.

UPDATE: TechCrunch’s own coverage of the winners has posted. Money quote: “There is such a huge demand for this type of service that 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations signed up for the service the first day it launched on Monday.” Go ahead take a peek, I bet people from YOUR large company are already on there.

Word on Twitter is that enterprise microsharing startup Yammer just won the top prize at Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis‘s TechCrunch 50 startup conference and competition.

Yammer’s on-stage presentation at the event:

As Jeremiah Owyang blogged a few days ago, there’s already a list of internal microsharing tools coming to market. His remarks on Yammer:

Yammer
Simply detailed as: “What’s happening at your company? Share status updates with your co-workers.” recently reviewed by webware. Launched in Sept 08.

Congratulations Yammer. We (obviously) think you’re onto something, and sincerely wish you well.

CNET News/Webware’s review of Yammer

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