India’s 15th general election is fast approaching, and Google’s determined to help anyone wanting to either participate in or monitor the event. The search giant launched the Google India Elections Centre in both English and Hindi to facilitate the spread of information.
Cutts, Google Defend And Promote Knol
It seems that Google didn’t miss Knol by accident when the company was killing Dodgeball, Jaiku, and other services two weeks ago. Matt Cutts has stepped forward to defend the would-be Wikipedia competitor, and a new contest aims to spark a bit of interest in it.
Companies Come Together To Promote Mobile Broadband
A group of 16 major IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to promote mobile broadband.The companies include Dell, Ericsson, Lenovo, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone. The group’s goal is to help people easily identify laptops that have built in access to the Internet via high-speed networks. The marketing initiative is worth more than $1 billion over the next year.The group will label laptop computers that meet their standards for mobile broadband access with a badge that identifies the laptops as ready for mobile broadband connections.
Malaysian Grandmother Goes Online To Promote Campaign
An 89-year-old Malaysian grandmother is running for parliament in Saturday’s general election and is using the Internet to promote her campaign and to reach voters.
Ford Manipulates Forum Posts To Promote Mariner
If nine out of ten people prefer cookies over rice cakes, gum over chewing tobacco, or champagne over sulfuric acid, haven’t you always wondered who the oddballs are? Well, Ford’s found them, and is now using their online forum posts to promote the Mercury Mariner.
Fox Goes Aggressively Viral To Promote New Show
In what it calls "an unprecedented cross-divisional marketing initiative," Fox is about to flood every medium at its disposure to promote its new comedy "The Winner" starring Rob Corddry, formerly of "The Daily Show."
Seth MacFarlane and Ricky Blitt, the same guys responsible for "Family Guy," are at the helm of this show too, at they are looking to build up as much buzz as possible.
Bloggers Help Promote Vanished Blog Post
Damian Mulley posted a lengthy complaint about alleged spamming by Thinkhouse PR, and that post has evidently disappeared from Google.
Using Blog PR To Promote Your Site
The recent trend of using the press release to promote an online business has emerged with good reason – good press costs very little and can do more for a business than thousands of dollars of marketing.
Creating a PAD File to Promote Shareware
Creating a PAD file to promote shareware is one of the most popular ways that shareware professionals use to promote their software on the internet.
Companies Promote Open CAD Platform
One of the chief stumbling blocks in industries that make use of CAD programs is that data produced by those programs can only be read by those programs. Interoperability is becoming a costly concern as manufacturers increasingly decentralize by outsourcing projects.