The Skype Phone
Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption.
The Secret of Writing Good Copy
It would be annoying for me to link to grokdotcom every day, so I don’t. But if you don’t have it in your regular rotation of RSS feeds, what are you waiting for? Here’s a great example—a post that pulls together over a dozen great articles on writing winning Web copy. It’s taking some of us a while, but we’re finally figuring out that Web marketing can really depend on your words.
Trying Semantic Search Yourself
Most of you know that my job focuses on IBM’s OmniFind enterprise search and text analytics products. And I’ve written before about semantic search—I’ve even written about what semantic search isn’t. I keep talking about it because semantic search is probably the easiest to understand application of text analytics.
YouTube, Others Succeed In Singapore
Stories about growth in Asia tend to involve China – it’s hard to ignore 1.3 billion potential users. But there are other countries in the region, and in one of them – Singapore – Hitwise’s Sandra Hanchard has recorded some impressive growth.
Nissan Shifts To Social Networking
Nissan has plans to launch a social networking site for its employees over the next several months.
Social Media Bomb Sent from USAToday
Working diligently through the week, contributing reporter Greg Farrell from USAToday probably never realized that his actions would send an impact around the world. In a hurried rush of editorial confusion, Greg succumbed to the pressure of sending along a message that should have been double-checked.
Best Web Publicity? Go the Content Route
Launching a new product? A new book? Or a new product? If it’s mass consumer-related, you might want to take a leaf out of FakeSteve (Jobs) book, Options.
Fake Steve Jobs (AKA Forbes senior editor Dan Lyons) has been penning the Fake Steve satirical blog of the Apple co-founder to the bemusement of folks in the Valley. With potrayals of Microsoft boss Bill Gates as “Beastmaster Bill” (both Bill and the real Steve are fans of the blog), it’s garnered nothing less than a rabid following.
Ingenio Riding Cost Per Action Wave
The click to call model used by Ingenio to connect people to businesses represents the foaming surf on the onrushing wave of CPA models for advertising.
College Students Work On Wikipedia
The typical college professor warns students to steer clear of Wikipedia – even the use of that term is likely to result in red ink and a lowered grade. But one professor actually created a project that revolved around the site.
IT Managers Stressed By Employees
IT managers are more worried about end users creating a problem for their IT Systems than about attacks from hackers, according to the, "2007 State of Security Report", sponsored by Websense.