Even as its Media Rating Council audit goes forward, comScore announces their newest service: comScore Marketer.
BT Publicizes Search Marketing Service
BT Web Clicks, a newly announced search marketing service, aims to help small British businesses by putting sponsored links on search engines. What’s more, the service offers “guaranteed results*.”
MTV, RealNetworks Partner On Music Service
RealNetworks, MTV Networks and Verizon Wireless have partnered to create a digital music service that users can access using their PC, portable music device or mobile phone.
Google Starts Shared Storage Service
Google users can boost their available storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums to as much as 250GB for an annual fee.
Amazon Flexes Payments Service Beta
This latest addition to an infrastructure lineup of S3 and EC2 (data storage/transfer and distributed computing, respectively) enhances Amazon’s strength as a powerful destination for developers.
Google Maps Gets Used For Oracle’s Field Service
The word “oracle” has a number of definitions, and they generally relate to knowledge provided by one or more deities – this would, in theory, be some solid intel.
But the Oracle company has recently turned to Google in order to get people on the correct path.
MySpace China To Launch IM Service
MySpace may soon launch a new instant messaging service, but to use it, you’ll probably have to watch what you say. And you may have to speak Chinese, as well – it’s MySpace China that plans to do this deed.
Instant Messaging For Myspace
According to a Reuters article, “News Corp.-invested MySpace China aims to launch an online messaging service ‘as soon as possible,’ its CEO said on Wednesday, as the venture fights for a bigger share of the world’s second-largest Internet market.”
Local.com Launches Mobile Service
Google and Yahoo issue press releases on a daily basis, but it’s been a busy month for Local.com, as well. The local search engine launched an advertising program, appointed a new Vice President of Product Management, and, earlier today, made a new mobile service available.
Open Source: It’s The Service, Silly
While the stock market has minted a few tech people as billionaires, including the richest geek on the planet, the most successful in the open source movement probably won’t touch the same level of wealth.
PR Should Have a Hand in Customer Service
I’ve had two customer service encounters today that have me pondering—again—the link between PR and customer service. If public relations is the management and maintenance of relationships between organizations and their core audiences, customer service should be considered a linchpin. Customers have to be considered a vital audience, and in today’s world, word-of-mouth from customers is worth more than dozens of expensive, traditional PR, advertising, or marketing campaigns. Yet many companies continue to blow it on this most fundamental of activities.