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Announcing the Facebook Antivirus Marketplace (Facebook Newsroom)
We’re announcing the Antivirus Marketplace, developed with industry partners to enhance protection for people on Facebook. AllFacebook The Antivirus Marketplace features free downloads and six-month licenses from Microsoft, McAfee, TrendMicro, Sophos and Symantec. GeekWire The social network says its URL blacklist — which aims to stop its users from accessing malicious sites from Facebook — will also now incorporate the databases of those companies. The Next Web To access the new protection tools, all you have to do is visit the Facebook Security Page and select from the options listed on the page. Read more
Yammer, the enterprise social network meant to help your organization communicate better with one another, has introduced a few new features to their service that will help people work together, search through their documents and more. The services are part of Yammer’s “Spring Release” and are meant to enhance Yammer to a point where it is more effective than corporate intranets. This is an ambitious goal, as intranets have been the lifeblood of most tech firms I’ve ever worked at. Let’s take a look at the features.
Last week, Yammer purchased OneDrum, a company that easily lets employees work on files together over the web. Yammer already lets you upload and display files on your groups and streams, but there is no real time personal drive technology available. Would this sort of technology help Yammer, and is that what the company is aiming at with the acquisition of OneDrum?
Yahoo, in a move that will be referenced as a ‘brand disaster’, has decided to sue Facebook for infringing on 10 patents related to various social networking and advertising technologies — technologies that are seen as open ideas by most of the web community. The backlash has been intense, and add social CRM company Yammer’s CEO David Sacks to the list of mudslingers. In a post on Twitter, David first admonished any employee that works at Yahoo, and said that they would not hire anyone who didn’t leave the company in 60 days.
Social ERM (employee relationship management) software provider Yammer have raised another $85 Million from investors. This comes after a round of 
Social, once dismissed as a consumer only trend, is starting to make a real dent into business. Yammer, a social CRM product dedicated to providing a Twitter like stream of discussion for employees, just recently reported recorded revenues. Now Jive, a public company and competitor to Yammer has reported their fourth quarter revenues have increased by 53% year over year. Let’s take a look at Jive and see how their offerings stack up against Yammer.
I’ve been a long time fan of Yammer. Months ago, I wrote up 
