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I almost thought that Yammer winning the TechCrunch in September was a joke.  Seriously, how does a Twitter knock-off win a cool thing like TechCrunch.  I mean – wow, how creative.  Ooooo, what an innovative idea.

OK, but I love Yammer.

I know – but what I really want to say is I think Yammer should replace email.  Most of the stuff people post is relevant, I think it is because they want to appear “cool” to co-workers.  They make sure they are clear and concise and relevant.  And I believe that 85% of all email could be eliminated if we encouraged people to use Yammer. The other 15% could be either email or direct messages.

What if we eliminated Outlook all together and a server which converts emails to Yammer-direct messages (I don’t think Yammer does direct messages yet, but they could copy it from Twitter) to Yammers.  Everything would be web-based and RSS-able.  It would be portable, accessible from anywhere and protected the way Yammer is now.

It really might be a innovation/evolution of email.  The silly thing (email) has not changed for how long?  Plus – we could add in a layer of security to eliminate SPAM too.

I don’t know -maybe its crazy, but we’ve got to keep moving forward! 

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