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September 2007 - Posts
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Hugh posts about Dinosaurspeak today.
The cartoon I don't quite get, but the term - Dinosaurspeak - nails it 100%.
It's something I'll sign up for (ie killing it off). And I'm certain I'd be followed quickly by our thirty strong content Read More
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My own bubbleometer ticked up a few points yesterday when I read the FT's Richard Waters post on Crowdsourcing 2.0 from meeting participants at Demo in San Diego. Ideablob from Advanta particularly struck a chord.
Way back, the Library of Congress, Read More
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Today David Bradshaw commented in Ovum's Hotnews (its a great service, but needs a subscription, so no link) that the exuberant valuations being touted for Facebook are a good indicator that a 2.0 bubble could be about to burst. Unlike every other Read More
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Looks like the Halo 3 team hit its goal: to be the biggest launch day in the entertainment industry - that's the biggest game or movie. According to this Reuters report launch revenues exceeded Halo 2 and also Spiderman 3, the biggest movie, by quite Read More
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Simon Pegg recently diverted from promoting Run, Fat Boy, Run to explain to Jonathan Ross why he was happy to be a geek (and why he definitely wasn't a nerd).
Steve Rubel recently commented on the rise of the geek marketer.
Now BusinessWeek reports Read More
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The Wall Street Journal (here) and the FT (here) speculate that Microsoft is angling for an equity stake in Facebook.
Charlene Li gives context. Steve Clayton poo poos the story.
Obviously its all speculation. Curiously, the WSJ story is dated Read More
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Tom Merritt and Molly Wood noted on the Buzz Out loud podcast the rise of new Web 2.0 services and companies with names that end in "-le".
They also called for the death of the term "mashup". But what would replace it? Someone suggested "blendle". Read More
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Yesterday I was invited along to an e-consultancy roundtable on the future of B2B marketing. Other attendees included a few marketing service providers like ourselves and a variety of online marketers from blue chip organanizations like Sony, Canon, PwC Read More
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On Twitter:
gapingvoid: There should be a "Twitter This" on blog entries. Instead of leaving a comment, you send a Tweet to the blogger automatically.
debroby: but twittering instead of commenting on blogs closes the conversation.
gapingvoid: Read More
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The potential of Facebook to be far, far more than a social network site for students is becoming more tangible every day.
Forrester's Charlene Li has a great post here about Faceforce a third party application on AppExchange that enables integration Read More
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News that Hugh MaCleod's Blue Monster thingy (idea? activity? initiative? movement?) has evolved into a branded Stormhoek wine caused a run on FT servers this morning. I was greeted with...
Luckily the story is on GapingVoid too.
Tags: Blue Monster, Read More
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CubeVoice...okay, CubeVoice is like Twitter, except you identify yourself as an employee of your company and carry on text conversations with your colleagues and interested outsiders in public. These conversations are aggregated and displayed in a Twitter Read More
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At Satisfaction anyone can list a company, product, or service on the site. Then other users can post their questions, complaints, and suggestions. Support comes from the Satisfaction community, though ideally the company in question will Read More
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Dell has hired Andy Lark as its new VP Global Marketing & Communications.
My headline is a bit of an overstatement, I'm certain Andy wasn't hired just because he is a blogger, but given Dell's experiences in recent years it can't have been a disadvantage. Read More
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Tech PR copywriter The Friendly Ghost has created a "relentlessly functional" tool using free Zoho Creator online database software. The Friendly Ghost Social Media Resource tracks PR social media knowledge, both theory and proof, and the Friendly Read More
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The McKinsey Quarterly has published a McKinsey Global Survey - How Companies are Marketing Online - you can read the whole article here.
I found one table particularly informative - Exhibit six on this page of the report.
What interested Read More
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Is it possible for a company to be evil and also play cricket?
I thought I knew a lot about Microsoft but this Reuters story put a new spin on it (sorry).
Disclosure: Microsoft are both a partner and customer, so if anyone wants to read anything Read More
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TV and film directors don't very often get the tech industry right, but last night I stumbled upon Riot On! on BBC4.
Riot On! nailed it for me. It may strictly speaking have been about a mobile entertainment company - its the 'story' of Riot Read More
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We're doing more and more work in Silverlight and are part of the Microsoft Early Adopter program for this product. I think we're only just scratching the surface especially when you start to layer .NET functionality on top.
While talking to a potential Read More
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I've just got back from holiday and being British one of our national obsessions is the weather especially while away. I came across an interactive weather map on weather.com which I thought was really cool.
It allows you to zoom in and out viewing areas Read More
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