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Yammer.com is a Twitter style messaging system but for corporate communications that’s just been announced as the winner of TechCrunch50. The concept itself is very simple and it the business model is equally as simple. You pay $1 admin access for every user you have on your Yammer network. Keep in mind that they had 2,000 companies (10,000 people) sign up on the first day along I’d like to think that they’re on to a winner…

I guess as with all these things it will be a case of waiting and seeing. As with all new things on the web that generate a decent amount of buzz and hype people just want to try it out. As the first 3 months are a free trial we won’t really what the user traction is going to be like until the new year.

Anyway, why this post title? Doesn’t it make perfect sense for something like this to be incorporated into Basecamp or something similar? It would be perfect! I guess that this could be something that 37Signals have up their sleeves but it would make perfect sense to update their current messaging system with something that’s a bit more fluid, like Yammer.

The other runners-up at TechCrunch50 are: Atmosphir, FitBit, Grockit, GoodGuide and Swype (any more web 2.0 names anyone!?)

I have been messing about Ubiquity for the first time today and what a nice, intuitive suprise it was!

After a very simple and easy install I was up and running. I must admit this isn’t something I could see less tech-savvy people using, but I guess that’s not really who it’s aimed at. The way it enhances the web and integrates with all of your web applications is really interesting, something very ‘different’.

I guess the next big question is what the uptake will be like from developers and web services. It has the potential to be one of those web applications you wonder how you survived without before.

Download it here and have a go yourself.