It forces us to decide what we’re working on. Computers provide an endless stream of opportunities to be distracted. If you don’t articulate what you’re working on, you often end up doing 10 different things, and none of them well. In that sense, using Yammer is a great way to force us to pick a task and focus on completing it.

I find in my work day that this can become a problem. Andrew is right about how you can get lost in the web via a computer. It’s sometimes hard to really stay focused on the completion of a project. I wonder if Yammer will work for companies who don’t officially buy into such a service. Can the employee of a huge company take advantage of Yammer without the company cutting a big contract with Yammer? Let me know if you do.

Congratulations to Yammer for winning TC50. You were among some seriously great companies and you rose to the top.

Recently, he did an interview with a friend of mine Dave Cohn on Dave’s blog. I’ve decided to post Dave’s interview of Andrew because it gives a great background into what ThePoint.com is doing and where they are heading and briefly talks about Dave’s non-prof start-up Spot.us.

Good luck to both Andrew and Dave in their ventures. Let me know if I can help!