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Renaissance 2.0

Yammer just launched and the best way to describe it is like this: It’s yet another twitter clone but with a twist. It’s your own private twitter service for your company, organization or family. The key is that everyone’s email address must have the same domain. For example, John@Company.com can join the same yammer network as Sally@Company.com. It will not work with yahoo, gmail or Hotmail accounts so don’t even try it.

So, if you have your own domain name with an email address linked to it then you can start your own private twitter network. If you don’t have one, you could register one for as little as $6.99 a year and then create email addresses for everyone that wants to be a member of this exclusive network. The key is that these new email addresses will only be email forwarding accounts that redirect any emails sent to that address to the real address that the user wants it to go to. It’s a sneaky and inexpensive way to get everyone in the same private twitter network. You can add cousins, aunts, uncles, even family friends. Just create an email forwarding account and they can join yammer.

This is a good solution for other groups, not just companies or families. Organizations such as churches, sports fantasy leagues, recreational sports groups and so on can all take advantage of this now.

Just an idea I had.

Yes, I’m a big fan of Google Chrome already. I still love FireFox and have an occasional tryst with Flock and sometimes give Internet Explorer a booty call (always leaving me feeling dirty and filled with regret vowing never AGAIN!).

Here’s the complete I.T. Happens Series.

Much to my surprise, Google Chrome is actually an excellent browser! I’ll admit that I did not want to like this browser because I only recently fell in love with Firefox thanks to its excellent 3.0 release. I even have a love-hate relationship with Flock for crying out loud. I’ve been totally heartbroken by Microsoft’s horrific Internet Explorer 8 Beta releases to the point where I’ve given up on them. I still contend that they should totally scrap ie and build a whole new browser like Google has down but do it with their own SilverLight and called it SilverSurfer.

For an excellent review including a screencast checkout Rizzn’s post on Mashable. Here’s the complete 30 plus page comic book about Google Chrome. Here’s the Open Source project called Chromium.

My only gripe with Google Chrome is the logo. It kept bugging me because it reminded me of something but I just couldn’t remember what it was. Then I remembered. It looks a lot like the Simon Says game! See for yourself.