Leads Too Valuable For Sales People Alone

David Meerman Scott's blog post, "Sales Leads Are too Valuable for Sales People," is worth a read. He shows the folly of marketers who throw sales leads over the wall and expect sales people to catch them.

Microsoft’s iPod Killer Gets Expanded Duties

Microsoft's rumored iPod killer may be much, much, more than that. In addition to its own features, the product, codenamed Argo, could be part of a larger line of "Xbox-branded digital-media products" in the works. And it's possible it won't make it out by Christmas, as earlier reports indicated. Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times broke this news thanks to "some research, reporting and information…

NBC Not Buying Tribe.net Yet

Although NBC has enough of an interest in the lightly-used social networking site, no one at the network has signed a check yet for the company.

The Next Web is the Human Web

I just did a speaking gig at Microsoft. Spoke to Nestle executives from around the world. Nice group of folks. Asked some interesting questions. Couldn't believe that they could actually watch what everyone around the world would say about Nestle. Yes, I introduced them to Technorati!