Mobile CRM Basics
Mobile CRM is emerging into the mainstream as an excellent method of relaying information between marketing and sales personnel.
Italy Bullies Google Over Video
A video of an autistic 17-year-old boy being bullied in a Turin classroom made it onto Google Video, and Italian authorities are furious that the content was not caught by Google staffers.
Social Media Guidelines For PR
It’s good to see that the CIPR, the body representing the public relations profession in the UK, has taken a lead in formally starting a debate about social media and PR.
Google To Get Belgian News Hearing
A couple of parties to a lawsuit in Belgium against Google for its news indexing have settled with the search advertising giant, but Google will have to wait until 2007 to fight an injunction against its scraping of news content managed by distributor Copiepresse.
Can Shopping Be Combines With Social Networks?
Looks like the American Marketing Association has its eye on social networks like MySpace as the shopping malls of the Web era.
More Reasons to Love Unix/Linux
I did a lot of clean-up work at this website over the long Thanksgiving weekend. This was all due to radically changing the layout. Some of that was quick and simple do do, but for older pages I needed to do some hand editing before switching to the new format.
E-Commerce To Lose $2 Billion In 2006
How will you be doing your holiday shopping this year?
Podcasts Catching On, Slowly
The podcast audience has grown in the past six months, says the Pew Internet and American Life Project, but the new medium still has yet to catch a serious wave.
Bad Advice That Sounds Good
Many professional lies are passed off as good information because they are just part of an industry vernacular or learning curve. For example, many people say make quality content, but never attempt to define what quality content is, or even how certain types of quality content are being marginalized by scrapers, social sites, user generated content, automated news sites, and search engines.
Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Jargon
Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users has a terrific take today on why expert users should stop worrying so much about whether using jargon is offputting to newbies and simply accept the fact that talking to other people who share your passion-and its special language-is more fun and stimulating than talking to people who think you are a babbling lunatic.