When Email Comes To Dinner

Sadly there were no tales of bad behavior at the home of WSJ.com correspondent Lee Gomes, who invited the heads of email teams from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to dinner with the admonishment that bad behavior would not be tolerated.

Salesforce Hits Problems

This is why I said "give Six Apart a break" a few days ago. Turns out that Salesforce.com had an outage the other day too.

Yahoo Stream Millions For Howard Stern

Yahoo released the metrics for the Howard Stern celebration and the number came to over 4.4 million streams of live video on December 16th. Additionally, more than 214,000 watched the activities after his final day on terrestrial radio. This is the largest live entertainment webcast.

The Problem Isn’t With the Press Release

Rex Hammock doesn't think the press release is dead, but he was amused that news of the Google-America Online deal had been well-communicated by the time Time Warner issued its press release:

Whats An Ookle?

Former Feedster CTO Scott Johnson has a new mistress. Her name is Ookle. Less than a week after his sudden exodus from Feedster, Johnson and Australian IM buddy Michael Air (yes, he's never met him in person) have set up Ookles.com, a stealth mode webpage with an information sign-up screen. And that's it. Mum's the word until at least January 31st.