I was shocked as there were several other, IMO more deserving companies - David Ward

Full ACK - that's exactly what I'm thinking. Thanks for the story. - Falko Timme from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Richard I would like to see who gets to fund them ... that will probably answer the question of why they won? - sam sethi

It is not a joke. For TechCrunch guys, anything related to Twitter is automatically cool, especially if it possesses some sort of business model. - Pavlo Zahozhenko from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Well, I thought I was the only one who didn't like Yammer thus why I didn't post anything on my blog about it, I just saw this company as too much of a combination of different ideas that already exist, I wanted to see Twitter make more of a go as this notion of corporate microblogging, however with their current problems I am sure they don't have the resources available for this kind of thing! - Josh Chandler from FriendFeed MT Plugin