Google Reader is becoming the online companion to and synchronization platform for NewsGator’s RSS readers including FeedDemon and NetNewsWire. Users have until August 31 to migrate to Google Reader, when NewsGator will shut down NewsGator Online.
Google Health Gets Handle On Real-Time Medical Data
Never mind Santa – 365 days a year, it’s now Google that may know when you’re sleeping or awake. The tech giant will be able to track things like heart rates and blood sugar levels, too, thanks to a partnership with IBM and help from the Continua Health Alliance.
7 Ways To Handle An Angry Blogger
Pulling a lawyer out of your pocket isn’t necessarily the best way to deal with an angry blogger, and businesses should know that. If anything, it makes the blogger’s target look like that much more of a jerk.
YouTube, CBS Can’t Handle The Truth
The YouTube community is very important to CBS, which wants to spur viewership of its lucrative broadcast properties; the community just isn’t important enough to eat at the same table as the CBS clips.
How Not To Handle Customer Service Calls
I awoke this morning to a few inches of snow on the ground. Nothing unusual here in Colorado, but as it so happened the snow must have caused some problems in my internet connection.
Wikipedia Can’t Handle the Truthiness
Wikipedia got a painful dose of “wikiality” this week as the online encyclopedia’s greatest strength became its worst nightmare. Wikipedia editors, meet Stephen Colbert, whose satirical crusade against “truthiness” arrived with the mocking tone of Monty Python’s coconut hoof beats.
Syndicate Speakers Handle Dialog Truth
Syndicāte Conference chairperson and Linux Journal senior editor Doc Searls opened Syndicāte with a brief history of blogging’s Genesis before bringing HP Enterprise Brand Communications director Scott Anderson on stage for the keynote address, where he stressed the importance of dialog.
How to Handle Web Surfers Who Disable JavaScript
This article describes how to create a web page that can be viewed by users, who have disabled JavaScript support or whose web browser does not support it.
If Big Ad Agencies Can’t Handle Search Engine Marketing, What’s A Small Business To Do?
A recent online news article entitled “Five Reasons Why Ad Agencies Hate Search Engine Marketing” struck a responsive chord in the search engine marketing (SEM) community. Lots of posts, both critical and supportive, showed up in online forums. The article made some points that I have noted myself in previous articles. The most important ones are that good SEM is labor intensive and expensive, that profitability is hard to achieve, and that the search engine companies keep moving the goal posts. I think it’s worthwhile considering the extent to which these problems also impact localized search engine marketing.
How To Handle Leads Safely
One of the many questions readers have submitted is:
Q: “I have one list that is comprised of people from a lead company. In view of the spam laws, can I market to these people or not?”