Comcast Impersonates China and Gnutella, Too
Some of the uproar last week was regarding Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent traffic, a move that, by itself raised concerns about the power over content and packets the cable company was usurping. Over the weekend it came to light that Comcast not only blocked BitTorrent, but also Gnutella and Lotus Notes.
New Rules for Breaking News
Part Three of a series discussing blogger relations, "Building a Bridge Between Your Story, Bloggers, and People."
Google Debuts Facebook News App
Google may have this social networking thing down, after all – although it was just formally announced on Friday, a Google News app for Facebook already has almost 2,300 daily active users.
Consortium Summit – Open Space
One of the sessions at the Consortium summit was an Open Space. This particular conversation was on the topic "How can our company involve the customers more fully in creation and adding content to our [customer support] knowledge base? What are the risks? What are the benefits?"
Online Holiday Retail Sales To Set Record
U.S. online holiday retail sales will reach $39 billion in 2007, an increase of 20 percent over last year’s holiday season according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "US Online Retail Holiday Forecast, 2007."
Is Tech Blogging Broken?
Ah the A List under question again, and the importance of Techmeme in relationship to where people find news, and then blog about what is happening in the news. While techmeme is not the only source, it is quickly becoming the authoritative source of information for people who read and write techblogs. So there is no surprise that clever marketing people have figured out how to game the system.
Jaw-Dropping, Salary Raising…Quantitative Variables?
I’m teasing of course. I don’t expect to raise anybody’s salary with a discussion of quantitative variables (or anything else).
But I do hope to explain one of the more important differences between web analytics and most of the traditional BI marketing analytics that has been done in the last twenty years. In addition, I’m going to make the case for why a new tool from WebTrends is a lot more important than you may be inclined to think. Along the way, you just might get a little richer – in understanding if not in take-home pay!
Yon Continues Iraq Reporting, Free To NNA
Michael Yon will continue to turn to his online audience to support his reporting from Iraq, which he will make available at no cost to the National Newspaper Association.
How to Control Your Google Sitelinks
Google have just launched a new function in their Google Webmaster Center where website owners can now decide what Google Sitelinks they want displayed in the search results.
Does Web 2.0 Signal A Political Shift?
All philosophies are prisons. That statement in itself is a philosophy and an irony. I bring it up only because Rich Karlgaard did on his Forbes.com blog, relating how (by mostly guessing) that the seemingly oxymoronic "left-libertarian" is making headway in Silicon Valley, and therefore in society.