Archives for December 2006
Fortune 500 Slow To Blog, Faster To Embrace Other Social Media
About a year ago today, Chris Anderson and Steve Rubel posted on the four percent (20) of Fortune 500 companies that were blogging.
Steve predicted “the Empire - e.g. large corporations - will strike back in a big way in an effort to make sure they don’t lose the online word of mouth game to the [...]
links for 2006-12-29
Full disclosure… « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
Robert Scoble has been invited to help John Edwards announce his presidential bid in New Orleans on Thursday.
(tags: scoble edwards presidential election)
The Barkan Dawg
I’m outing GCI Atlanta’s Jon Barkan — he blogs. He’s a great writer who covers a lot of territory, from Coughlin to Croce. [...]
links for 2006-12-28
Laughing Squid » Microsoft Sent A Free Laptop With Windows Vista
Microsoft is courting bloggers and on-line influencers for its Vista launch. A number of A-listers received Acer laptops running Vista Ultimate for their use (and I assume review). Microsoft said there are no strings attached and is 100 percent transparent, but some bloggers [...]
“MySpace” Meets Healthcare
There’s a good article on social networks in healthcare in The Wall Street Journal today: “The Informed Patient: Social Networking Comes to Health Care — Online Tools Give Patients Better Access to Information And Help Build Communities” (subscription required — thanks, Rachelle, for the heads up).
In 2007, I believe we’ll see a surge in [...]
links for 2006-12-27
Verizon to Allow Ads on Its Mobile Phones - New York Times
Beginning early next year, Verizon Wireless will allow placement of banner advertisements on news, weather, sports and other Internet sites that users visit and display on their mobile phones.
(tags: mobile marketing)
Mini Friday About
A virtual world for smart phones…
(tags: mobile marketing)
Social Networking Awards - The [...]
links for 2006-12-24
Crown Roast of Pork
Our Christmas dinner recipe for Jen.
(tags: jen)
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google, Times Online
This is interesting news. In my view the Wikipedia founder already started a rival to Google: Wikipedia. Not sure he can top it.
(tags: wikipedia google)
The seven top mobile and wireless trends for ‘07 | [...]
links for 2006-12-21
PRESS RELEASE Nielsen//NetRatings Announces November U.S. Search Share Rankings
Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Google is still on top but Ask is growing faster.
(tags: search research)
Genuine VC: Why I Like Our ExpoTV Investment
I met with ExpoTV in NYC last week. They have an interesting model. Here is one of their investor’s [...]
Cisco’s Judo Move (and Apple’s Ouchy)
(Sorry for the no-text feed — I originally posted this from my phone and it did not work. I’m way late on this story, but it’s a case worth looking at so here it is.)
There is a martial arts move where you use your opponent’s momentum to your advantage. This is exactly what Cisco [...]
links for 2006-12-18
GigaOM » Forget iPhone, Think Google Phone
You may be planning to rush out and buy Apple’s iPhone tomorrow. Google is providing just enough info to make some phone geeks wait.
(tags: iphone google mobile phone)
Where to Go in 2007 - New York Times
This is cool. NY Times has a Google Maps mash-up that suggest [...]