http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:09:49 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4160 Yammer originally launched as the “Twitter for businesses.” It has been continuously releasing various products like mobile apps and new desktop clients, adding threaded conversations, hosted versions and more. Within 2 years, Yammer has got more than one million users and 80,000 companies worldwide (which includes 80% of the Fortune 500). Yammer has been doubling its revenue every quarter. Now, Yammer [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/yammer-2-0-to-launch-as-a-powerful-full-fledged-social-network-for-the-enterprise/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/might-threaded-conversations-be-coming-to-twitter/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/might-threaded-conversations-be-coming-to-twitter/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:26:38 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3707 There are many things improving with Twitter. But it is yet to improve the way to view conversations. You need to click on the “in reply to” links for conversation, which may be difficult in case of long conversations. Several third-party apps (including Twitter’s own native iPhone app) are much better at doing this. One [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/might-threaded-conversations-be-coming-to-twitter/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/your-comments-are-now-ads/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/your-comments-are-now-ads/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 04:16:52 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3516 Bloggers and marketers have always been trying to Ever since get some use out of the conversation. It all started out as crude pay-per-post schemes, and then evolved into more subtle “sponsored conversations”. After Twitter and Facebook become popular the conversations also were for sale. It became so bad; the FTC had to get involved. Now comes the sponsored conversations from [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/your-comments-are-now-ads/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/poor-it-job-market-may-fuel-online-crime-cisco/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/poor-it-job-market-may-fuel-online-crime-cisco/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:30:22 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1558 The ever-weakening job market may pose a big threat as it may lead to an increase in online crime. The laid-off workers, more specifically those with computer skills, may turn to scams to earn money to support themselves. This was revealed in a mid-year security report released on Tuesday by Cisco Systems Inc. Disgruntled employees targeting [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/poor-it-job-market-may-fuel-online-crime-cisco/feed/ 0