BlogBurst Plucks Money For Bloggers
The BlogBurst service from Pluck will pay people who place highly on its leaderboard of active bloggers, but there is a catch that has participants concerned.
Yahoo Blasted On China Issue
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have all been blasted for cooperating with the Chinese government, but this time Yahoo was alone in the hot water. Reporters Without Borders is angry with the search engine company for its willingness to “snitch” on Chinese dissidents.
Is Zune The iPod Killer?
You would think an epic battle was being fought if you listened to the hype being generated about Microsoft releasing an “equivalent” to Apple’s iPod. Who will win the war of the digital music players: iPod or Zune?
Coke And Free Advertising
After the amazing Diet Coke-Mentos video from the guys at Eepybird.com exploded onto the scene thanks to YouTube (and later Revver), there was a sharp divide between the reaction from Mentos and Coca-Cola.
Adobe Opens ActionScript Code to Mozilla
Adobe announced this week that it has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation as part of a new open source project entitled Tamarin.
Write a Social Media Press Release
As a function of the Social Media Club, Chris Heuer and I were recently discussing Social Media Press Releases with a reporter at a PR trade magazine when we realized just how many people have yet to even learn about the fundamentals of social media.
Vista Vouchers to Entice Holiday PC Buyers
Microsoft recently announced an Express Upgrade Voucher that will allow consumers who buy Windows XP PCs a less costly upgrade to Windows Vista when it’s released at the end of January.
On Net Neutrality
Jeffrey Hermes, a litigation partner at Boston law firm Brown Rudnick, whom I’ve sourced for a previous article on libel as it applies to podcasting, was a little late responding for an article on how the midterm elections would affect the Network Neutrality debate. Jeff sent a brief essay on the issue as a whole, […]
Topics Announced For The Frameworks Conference
The TeraTech Frameworks Conference has just posted the list of topics.
And Vista Has Great Packaging Too!
I don’t want to be a gigantic wet blanket or anything, but looking at the top of Techmeme right now makes me despair for the future of the human race.