Forrester Research recently hosted a "Sales Enablement" roundtable, which featured sales and marketing executives from technology companies like Intel, NetApp, Borland, Informatica, Sun, Interwoven, Microchip, Renesas, Juniper Networks, Trend Micro, and Thoughtworks.
On-Demand XML Sitemaps for Custom Search
Google has come up with another nice webmaster tool.
Google Earth Models Getting Better
Google Earth is doing some amazing things as highlighted with their announcement the other day of the Ancient Rome layer (shown in the video below).
Google Site Search On-Demand Indexing Triggers Re-Crawling
Google has introduced some new functionality to its Site Search product, which allows customers to search within your own site. The feature that everyone is talking about is the ability to add pages on-demand to be indexed by site search, so customers have access to these new pages as soon as they’re ready.
Update Your Status Across Dozens of Social Media Sites
Once you start "living" in more than one social media space, the idea of updating your status across multiple Web sites gets tedious fast.
Obama Gets Online Video
Well, we know it’s important for businesses to be transparent online. This is one of the reasons often cited for running a corporate blog.
Microsoft Travels The Silk Road
Microsoft has launched a new project aimed at web publishers and developers, entitled "Project Silk Road," in which the latest step combines a content management system with the ability to sell ads. Microsoft explains more about Silk Road:
Facebook Gets Rid Of Some Neo-Nazi Groups
Facebook users may be glad to know that the social network is rid of a few neo-Nazi groups this morning. After a protest arose over some anti-gypsy pages, Facebook pulled the things, citing terms of use that forbid intimidation and harassment.
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Paying Off
Microsoft says that its Live Search cashback program, launched in May to attract more users has done well in three key areas.Its cashback program has had a positive return on investment for advertisers (ROI), percentage of search queries for commercial purposes, and the number of advertising offers on the system.
Google Docs And Spreadsheets Still In The Shallow End
Microsoft may be down compared to Google in terms of search – some of the most conservative estimates suggest Google’s market share is five times bigger – but the Redmond-based corporation still has little to fear as far as productivity software goes. Google Docs and Spreadsheets is growing at a gastropod’s pace.