Twitter-Like Tools for the Enterprise

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I'm attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference session on "Twitter-Like Tools for the Enterprise," moderated by Gil Yehuda, with representation by:

Ross Mayfield of Socialtext (product: Signals)
http://www.socialtext.com/products/signals.php

Tim Young of Socialcast
http://www.socialcast.com/

Yoshi Maisami of Intridea Inc. (product: Presently)
http://www.intridea.com/2009/3/25/presentlycom-twitter-meets-linkedin?blog=company

Travis VanderZanden of Yammer.com
https://www.yammer.com/users/new

Mark Dowds of Brainpark Inc. – just launched this weekend
http://www.brainpark.com/

Great discussion on such topics as:
Will companies pay for these tools in the enterprise?
Is 140 characters relevant for the enterprise?
How do you get people to use these tools when political/emotional barriers to sharing are in place?
Do employees own their data or not?

Additional tool mention from audience member @danyork:

Laconica (product: identi.ca)
http://identi.ca/

Twitter stream from the session:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23e2conf20