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 With Yahoo shares down better than 15% in the two trading days since it climbed into bed with Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the cat who ate the canary and maybe forgot there for a moment that he didn’t buy the company, told Microsoft’s annual analyst meeting Thursday that “It...Jul. 31, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,166 |
 Last weekend Chris O'Brien (San Jose Mercury News) referred an "identity crisis" at Google, which immediately reminded us of a litany of technology companies which have ended up dabbling in too many markets for their own good. Breadth ultimately undermined synergy. It isn't hard to ...Jul. 30, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,614 |
 Let’s be clear on this one: Microsoft isn’t partnering with Yahoo. It’s devouring it. It’s gobbling it up whole like a party snack before moving onto its next conquest. The argument, of course, is that not having to fund search will save Yahoo “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Well...Jul. 30, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,007 |
 Our supplier of video services shall remain unnamed. When you arrive at the site you have to wait for flash video to load. Although it loads pretty quickly, the presence of flash is still an unnecessary barrier to getting the information you need to make a buying decision. The home p...Jul. 30, 2009 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,155 |
 With its latest software update, open source groupware innovator Open-Xchange is previewing the ability to integrate social network information. For example, adding LinkedIn contacts into the Open-Xchange address book.Jul. 30, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,123 |
 First of all, let me say that Cloud Sherpas is made up of several former Lotus Notes Professionals. In my previous role with a large Fortune 100 company, I was responsible for the implementation, support, and day-to-day management of a 30K Lotus Notes and Domino user base. I actually h...Jul. 30, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,707 |
 So you’ve gone ahead and set up a blog for your company. Or maybe you are just starting to think about it but aren’t sure what to do – or whether you should even have a blog. No matter which of these camps you fall into, it’s critical to your success that you don’t just [...]...Jul. 29, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 753 |
 Craig Newmark, best known for being the founder of the Craigslist website, is working hard to get the word out on Gov2.0. Last week in FedScoop, he really laid out how technology is improving our American democracy.
As stated in his article, Mr. Newmark hopes to help accelerate this...Jul. 29, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,421 |
 So, ‘fess up. Who still doesn’t “get” Twitter?
This blog post derides Twitter, saying: “Did you lose your minds? Get a job. Are you that bored?” Well, I have a job, and that job’s in PR – a sector where Twitter is invaluable (hey, you can follow me if you like… I’m @PostcodeJim).
...Jul. 27, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,092 |
 I was sitting in my local Starbucks, staring at my laptop wondering how to begin this blog. Then, as I looked around me, I noticed my fellow customers – students studying, Moms taking a little break, professionals such as myself getting a little work done outside the office on a wirel...Jul. 27, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 763 |
 Amazon sells shoes. So does Zappos. Another company – where I have many friends, as I previously did significant consulting work for them – markets something entirely different. All, however, are particularly instructive about the future of business.
The company I won’t name is invo...Jul. 27, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 770 |
 It is not very often the words ‘Google’ and ‘energy-saving’ appear in the same sentence. However, in Portugal last week at the industry-leading Next Generation Utilities Summit, over 50 European Utility leaders were presented with the company’s new venture; Google’s ‘PowerMeter’....Jul. 27, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
 Despite the title of Andrew Conry-Murray’s article in InformationWeek — “Why Business IT Shouldn’t Shrug Off Chrome OS” — it’s on balance quite negative about the prospects for enterprises adopting Google’s upcoming operating system. Andrew argues that enterprises are going to want hyb...Jul. 25, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,304 |
 The blurring of professional and personal lives in social media and the rush of organizations to “join in” may create just that. Almost every modern organization has behavioral policies known as “zero-tolerance” these days. These policies are designed to provide a ... Jul. 22, 2009 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,120 |
 For the last 10+ years, I’ve spent countless nights and weekends keeping Lotus Notes/Domino running at organizations of all sizes. In the process, I’ve gathered more certifications than can fit on a business card (CLS, CLP, PCLP…), but at the end of the day, ensuring...Jul. 22, 2009 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 856 |
 The latest Twitter controversy surrounding the blog, the hacker and the cloud vendor isn’t disturbing – just inevitable. By now anybody with an iota of interest in cloud computing will know what this story is about. Many people are probably damning Google for their ” lack of security.”...Jul. 21, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,156 |
 Symantec Security Response has identified yet another two web browser attacks, one on Microsoft Internet Explorer and the other on Firefox. Two weeks ago we reported the Microsoft Video Streaming Active X control vulnerability, which can be exploited mostly through the older but still ...Jul. 21, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 649 |
 So, here’s a way the government is becoming like Google. Remember how a few years ago, Google was grabbing the best and the brightest techies of every stripe? Every time you turned around, someone else you admired had moved there. Now the same thing is happening with the federal govern...Jul. 20, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 656 |
 Today, for the very first time in my experience, The Encyclopedia Britannica was the #1 result at Google for a query.
It’s good to see the EB making progress with its online offering, but I’m actually puzzled in this case. The query was “horizontal hold” (without quotes), and the E...Jul. 20, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
 Is Ask’s marketing strategy a gift or a curse? I think it’s a bit of both. (Whatever the case, my mother-in-law literally thinks there is a real man called Jeeves who answers your questions when you hit the Search button.)
Apparently Scott Garrell, president of Ask Networks, said in a...Jul. 20, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,751 |
 I gave a talk this week at the Mountain View JavaScript meetup hosted by Google at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Thanks to Michael Carter who hosts this event on a monthly basis. The event was also video recorded by Google and is being made available on Youtub...Jul. 20, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 962 |
 With Firefox 3.5 all the major browsers (including IE!) support native drag and drop. The SC.Drag interface in SproutCore was designed from the beginning to follow the same protocols. That means once someone SC.Drag to use native drag events, all your SproutCore-drag code will automa...Jul. 19, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,168 |
 While tracking the market today, I expanded the S & P 500 graph time window from the normal mode of a month or a year, to run from 1970 through the present. What I found illustrates a fascinating principle of wealth building.
The blue line represents that value of the S&P 500 index....Jul. 18, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 791 |
 Social Media like Twitter and Facebook are hot, hot, hot right now — being used for everything from marketing to market research to customer support. But for all the buzz, the activity taking place in social media remains hard to measure, and there are still no clear standards on...Jul. 18, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,696 |
 I’ve been working in tech startups for a bit over 10 years now. I don’t want to claim I know the industry inside out, but I kind of know how it works. I also know how marketing and PR work – after all that’s my job – so I know how the two interact. The industry needs the magazines and ...Jul. 17, 2009 09:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,000 |
 Every single piece of marketing content needs to be designed to achieve a goal. That goal should include delivering on the promise your title or associated messaging sets in the mind of your audience. Otherwise it's just blowing hot air that diminishes prospect interest. Use these tips...Jul. 17, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 994 |
 I just watched Google’s Jeff Ragusa’s video clip explaining the Google Apps reseller model. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought the Just for Laughs Festival I attend every year started early. Here is the big joke: Google is offering a whopping 20% of the Google Apps revenu...Jul. 16, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,719 |
 I was listening to a product launch webinar early this morning. The speakers were droning on and on about technology and architecture and innovation. Not a customer benefit in sight - other than the usual generic claims of 'market leading' performance,' unmatched' reliability, 'next g...Jul. 16, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 879 |
 As my grandpa used to say, "The view never changes unless you're the lead cow." While I don't believe the competition should heavily influence a company's strategy, I do believe competitive knowledge is key in better understanding your market. Yet IMHO few companies actually assess th...Jul. 16, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 766 |
 Lead nurturing is often thought about as being found with a flag waving when your leads decide to take action. Waiting to be found is not a strong strategy. In fact, sitting around passively encourages your leads to leak away to competitors working harder to engage them. The secret is ...Jul. 16, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,132 |
 Mini-MSFT is back, with a post about Microsoft turning The Corner. It’s interesting to contrast his point of view with that of MG Siegler over at ParisLemon. Given my own perception of Valley bias on the part of Siegler (he is one of the new voices of Techcrunch after all), it’s grea...Jul. 16, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,578 |
 My blog is written from the perspective of both a nurse & a patient. I am able to take the knowledge I've accumulated over the years, along with my nursing education and my undergrad degree in community health and pass it on to others. I do very much hope that you are able to learn a l...Jul. 16, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 744 |
 Social Media vs Public Relations duscussion which was fueled by two recent blog posts by SYS-CON Media founder Fuat Kircaali; "Is the PR Business Extinct?" and "Will PR Firms Survive The Social Media Avalanche?" continues.
Publicity is the act of getting “ink,” but true PR is the st...Jul. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,608 |
 In the absence of any solid information, it's probably safe to assume that Google wouldn't be building still another Linux operating system if Android didn't suck on netbooks and could leverage higher-performance, more feature-rich processors.
But it doesn't which is why Google is q...Jul. 15, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 961 |
 As predicted here and here, Google has announced its new Chrome operating system project.
In a blog post that indirectly pokes fun at Microsoft OS’s perceived instability and short shelf life, Google are trying to endear themselves to the public with their embracing of the open ...Jul. 15, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 791 |
 Positioning is best thought of as a matrix of elements that can be combined in various way to create a relevant and compelling story for the situation at hand. The key is to be concise with compelling core positioning statements (3-5 maximum) and then support those statements with wide...Jul. 15, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 609 |
 If your prospects' response to your E-Marketing programs is stalling, don't be complacent enough to just push them back into the general nurturing pool without a lifeguard. By taking some steps to evaluate why and when they stall, you can work proactively to refine your content and com...Jul. 14, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 831 |
 I really like Google. They produce easy to use applications that work great. I use their search engine about a hundred times a day. Their applications make sense. But this announcement gave me goosebumps. If you didn’t hear that Google has announced that in 2010 consumers will have a c...Jul. 14, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,215 Replies: 2 |
 Should busy executives use Twitter? Hmmm. There is a line (or a tweet) in the sand on this one. It's a hot topic guaranteed to bring out heated opinions. And be sure to get your gloves on if you enter this dialogue.
A recent Business Week article on CEOs tweeting can give you insigh...Jul. 13, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 939 |
 It’s Friday, and it’s sunny out here in Seattle, which means that no work will get getting done. In lieu of work, I did some digging with my contacts on the interwebs, and it turns out there is are a couple of screen grabs of the new Chrome OS floating around out there. I [...Jul. 13, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,491 |
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