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petervandijck on May 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Any desktop app based startups?

Some startups have a desktop component (Yammer), and it's often not very good.

ldayley on May 22, 2011 [–]

Yammer's desktop client sucks. Perhaps it is because writing for the desktop is considered so passe that the art is dying among younger devs.

yesimahuman on May 22, 2011 | [–]

Yammer's desktop client is written in Adobe AIR which is the normal web stack. It runs in an embedded WebKit browser.

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