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June 2006 - Posts
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from the Qumana blogeBay Canada have introduced member blogs to their community section. With a bit of further digging these are also available under the .com address, http://blogs.ebay.com, and there is a link on the UK site, http://blogs.ebay.co.uk, Read More
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As Microsoft blogger Quentin Clark eloquently put it, "Wow."At the recent TechEd conference in Boston, Microsoft previewed the Beta 2 release of the next-generation Windows file system (WinFS), which the company said would be available "later this year". Read More
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Fluffy news piece in the Metro today about companies tapping into 'ancestral wisdom', using Chinese Feng Shui and the Indian philosophy of Vaastu (or Vastu) Shastra to design better websites.
Vaastu is an ancient Indian science of Read More
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Congratulations Fred Reicheld.
Reicheld's book The Ultimate Question published by Harvard Business School is now the number one best selling business book in both the Wall St Journal and USA Today lists.
Like all such titles you need to be discerning Read More
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Remember 2000 and the steep, steep curve on those e-commerce adoption graphs touted by analysts at the time? I get deja vu every time I look at the curves on online advertising graphs today. (Yes, its better underpinned but that's a whole different blog...) Read More
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Jeremiah has a post about the Supernova conference he recently attended. In this he talks about a question that was asked of Jonathan Schwartz the CEO of Sun.
"should CEOs blog?"The notes on his answer are
"John, refers to CEOs 5 years ago not Read More
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Artist Christian Nold's Bio Mapping project uses galvanic skin response detectors, the Global Positioning System, and Google Earth to create maps that link physical locations with levels of emotional arousal."The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to Read More
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Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger links to a post about the difference between being 1st and 2nd on Google for a particular search term.
"I can tell you that our site receives approximately 30k of visits on average per day from Google, Read More
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Commenting on Virgin Mobile giving away free kebabs at events, a colleague remarked, "Whatever next in advertising – Microsoft giving popcorn away at cinemas?"I think that this is a FANTASTIC idea. And not that far-out, considering what I fetched from Read More
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So the travelling army of Dutch football fans have been ordered to cheer on their national team in their pants by joyless FIFA executives.
In by far the best story to have emerged from the early stages of the World Cup, Dutch brewer Bavaria (which Read More
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The Church of the Customer Blog has a post about putting Mentos into Diet Coke.
I read about this the other day but it's interesting the responses from the two companies.
Mentos: "We are tickled pink by it," says Pete Healy, vice president Read More
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I once wrapped up a presentation about blogging and podcasting thusly: "What I've described to you isn't the future. Blogging is what people are doing right now. It's important to grasp this phenomenon as quickly as possible, because at the current rate Read More
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B L Ochman has an interesting post which links to the Logic+Emotion
site and talks about how "blogs are what connect the community
clusters". One of the things that the post includes is this
diagram where the green dots are the interaction between Read More
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Steve Makofsky from the Platforms Incubation group at Microsoft recently asked a good question in his blog: Are products better because of blogs? Sure, blogging evangelists talk up the benefits of transparency, openness, conversations with your customers, Read More
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Via Slashdot, a New York Times article about the culture shock that results when young people - used to sharing the details of their lives with the world through their blogs - enter the workplace, where the laundry is kept inside, thankyouverymuch. (Link Read More
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Being slightly reclusive by nature, last week's Microsoft Worldwide PR Summit was one of the few times I spend much time with counterparts from other PR agencies. Microsoft has a strong hand of agencies supporting it, so its interesting to compare notes Read More
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New Scientist reports that Pentagon's National Security Agency, or spooks to put it simply, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. Scary big brother stuff - but are we Read More
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All the hyperbole and diatribe surrounding Web 2.0 and Social Media is reminding me of uni days studying media theorist Marshall McLuhan. It seems that the digital revolution has made McLuhan relevant again. I mean, the guy practically invented Read More
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Lifehacker have a great post about the Cooking for Engineers site
Now my wife is a chef, she went to Le Cordon Bleu,
and I'm and engineer, my degree is in Information Systems Engineering
and Management, and it's very rare that I cook but the way Read More
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One interesting consideration occurs to me while I'm here at the Microsoft Worldwide PR Summit.
During the week there's been alot of discussion about how we as PR practitioners interact with and manage, new and emerging channels for Read More
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