Breaking eBusiness and Search News Advertise | Newsletter | Sitemap | News Feeds   Part of the iEntry network   Gawker Media Launches Two New Blogs Nick Denton's Gawker Media is launching two new blogs today- Gridskipper, dedicated to travel ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 The Risk Of Loosing Business Focus When Blogging A warning for blog evangelists (like myself). We should "...proceed more cautiously when promoting to businesses in such blanket terms that they must have a blog ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 GM Executive Blog and the Role of PR General Motors' Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, is not the only one blogging The FastLane Blog, GM's executive blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Who Owns Your Blog Content? InformationWeek: People are starting Weblogs in growing numbers, but the owner of the content isn't always clear. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Skype Is Getting Very Interesting A few weeks ago, I joined the Skype beta testing program for their planned voice messaging service. It is good. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 The EU Commissioner Blog Now A "Real" Blog The blog of European Commissioner Margot Wallström is now a fully enabled blog. We find a feed, (moderated) comments and trackback. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 The Rise of Business Blogging The following is an article that I wrote on business blogging for the February issue of The Advertiser ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Danny Sullivan Not Impressed with Web's Biggest Danny Sullivan is clearly not impressed with the bold claims of the new search engine, Web's Biggest. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Teen Author Of Blaster Variant Sentenced The teenage author of a blaster worm variant, which infected thousands of computers, was sentenced last Friday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Did-It.com SEM Seminars The best of luck to Kevin and team's launch of new SEM seminars, but could someone please explain to me what in the world they have done to their website ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Want a Better Search Engine? Time to Open-up CNet reports on a topic that is near and dear to my heart, the future of search engine technology. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Arrested Development TV Show Plugs Ask Jeeves It seems name-dropping search engines on hip TV shows, is the latest rage. This time round Ask get's the nod from the producers of Arrested Development. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 How Microsoft Can Mobilize Biz Bloggers and Save the Tablet PC In case you haven't heard, the Tablet PC computing platform has a problem. Despite putting in a great deal of traditional marketing elbow grease, Microsoft can't seem to make a go of it. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 StarHub To Launch i-mode Internet Access Singapore's integrated info-communications provider, StarHub has announced the launch of i-mode Internet access, partnered with Japan's Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NTT) DoCoMo. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Exxon Mobile SpeedPass Hack via RFID Tired of paying for gas ... Are you a geek with a laptop, knowledge of the Texas Instruments RFID spec and live near an Exxon Mobile gas station equipped with SpeedPass ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Nvidia Sees Fourth Quarter Growth Graphics hardware company Nvidia, is slowly chipping away at competitor ATI's hold on the graphics card market share, thanks to a strong fourth quarter. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 P&G's Brand Buzz The Cincinnati Enquirer is covering P&G's acquisition of Gillette from most every direction. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Car Immobilzer Chips Cracked A team of students from Johns Hopkins University has successfully cracked the RFID (radio frequency identification) chips used in cars to prevent theft. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Google Employee Blogs In case you're looking for some Google employee blogs, here is a relatively comprehensive list ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Yahoo Employee Blogs In case you're looking for some Yahoo! employee blogs, here is a list. A link to a Google blog list is below. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Microsoft Ready to Prove Its Search Stuff Matt Hicks, eWeek's star tech journalist, keeps the reports coming, today looking at MSN's pending hard-launch of its new search engine. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 NextSearchSurvey Reveals Interesting Search Engine Data Sid Yadav reveals the results of a survey he has been compiling for months now. More than 3500 participants shared their views on the search engines. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 MediaBistro Debuts Media Blogs Frank Barnako reports that MediaBistro has launched five blogs about the media business. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Gateway Introduces New Laptop Line A new mobile computer line announced today from Gateway introduces what the company calls "its most diverse line of notebook PCs."A new mobile computer line announced today from Gateway introduces what the company calls "its most diverse line of notebook PCs." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Tivo's HME SDK Tivo has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for their broad-band connected Tivo units ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Scoble on the NoFollow Tag Scoble - one of the few guys who you simply don't need to mention his first name, everyone know who you are talking about ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 WeatherBug Blogs the Groundhog The great folks at WeatherBug, one of my firm's longtime clients, are off to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 MIT Professor Developing Affordable PC Nicholas Negroponte, the director and founder of the MIT Media Lab is developing a personal computer that costs $100. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Cell Phone Shipments Increase Reports indicate that the fourth quarter of 2004 was the best ever for mobile phone shipments, which saw a 24-29% increase during the quarter. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 CipherTrust Introduces TrustedSource 3.0 In an effort to further the fight against spam and spam senders, anti-spam company CipherTrust has introduced the newest version of their TrustedSource software. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Apple Introduces New PowerBooks A very busy month has finished for Apple with the introduction of their faster PowerBook models, which were introduced today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Apple Tops Google With Brand After two years in the top spot, Google is now second in the annual Brandchannel.com reader survey. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-31 Official's Comments Hint the Gov't Can Pay Bloggers The fallout over Ketchumgate continues. The New York Times reports that the Department of Health and Human Services said it had hired Michael McManus ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 YPulse Blogger Profiled Anastasia Goodstein, who writes the fantastic YPulse Gen Y marketing blog, is profiled today in the San Francisco Chronicle. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 Lots of talk about Napa New Communications Forum Arrived home late yesterday from the New Communications Forum 2005 conference in Napa, California. A truly oustanding event ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 Blogging Jump-Starts Your Relationships I had the great pleasure of meeting Christopher on Friday in Burlingame, California. This was the first time we'd ever met, yet it was as if we were simply extending a facet of a relationship we already had. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 Google No Longer Top Brand After two years in the top spot, Google is now second in the annual Brandchannel.com reader survey. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 Google Dumps Dictionary For Answers According to theunofficialgoogleweblog Google has completed the switch from Dictionary.com to Answers.com. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-30 The Editable Search Engine Ross Mayfield points to a new search engine called Webs Biggest. What makes it unique is that users can add/edit search results. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 The Mysterious eBay Note In My Cube I came back to my desk after 3.5 hours of meetings and presentations to find the following on a post-it note stuck to my laptop ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 Google Losing Hip-Factor? CNet raises the question that Google may be losing its coolness after popular nighttime soap "The O.C." plugged Amazon's A9 in a recent episode. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 Blaster Worm Maker Jailed Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, was sentenced to 18 months in U.S. District Court in Seattle for creating and distributing the a variant of the infamous Blaster worm. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 MySQL De-Wormed The MySQL bot worm that was attacking Windows was stopped dead in its tracks late Friday according to a report by Cnet. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 Five Way$ to Make Money with Your Blog The Washington Post breaks out five ways to make money with a weblog: Google Adsense, BlogAds, affiliate programs, tip jars and selling schwag. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-29 Google and FireFox Adding fuel to the rumors that Google is going to introduce a proprietary browser, Google Inc. has hired the lead developer of the Firefox web browser, Ben Goodger away from the Mozilla Foundation. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Journalists Evangelize Blogs as PR People Doze Off VC Jeff Nolan sat in on a panel discussion yesterday hosted by Burson-Marsteller with Business 2.0's ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Opportunity Knocks for Corporate Communicators A few immediate reflections on The New Communications Forum 2005 which took place in Napa, California over the past two days. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Crisis Communications Blogs - Use Them Cautiously Blogs have a role to play in crisis communications. In some ways those communication features we need in a crisis are inherent in blogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Panel discussion: Blogging and branding Highlight points from the panel - pictured, left to right: Anita Campbell, Evelyn Rodriguez, Dan Taylor, Andy Lark - moderated by Elizabeth Albrycht. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Worm Variant Targets Microsoft Servers Running MySQL Security companies have identified a variant of the Forbot worm that targets Windows servers with MySQL, an open database software package, installed. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Panel discussion: Blogging and journalism Highlight points from the panel - pictured, left to right: Dan Forbush, Tom Foremski, Jeremy Wright, Heath Row - moderated by Dan Forbush. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Lithuania Joins World of Corporate Blogging Welcome Lithuania to the world of corporate blogging. I enjoy to follow the spread of this tool, and it's always nice to be able to add a new country ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 ColdFusion BlackStone - Beta Is The New Black The Macromedia Blackstone project is currently in beta testing. For those of you that don't know, Blackstone is the latest version of ColdFusion MX. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Yahoo Provides Local Search Via Cell Phones Matt Hicks of eWeek looks at the different cell phone search options and Yahoo's expansion with local search features. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Open-source Solaris No-Lose For Sun? With the open-source community being embraced by the tech giants like never before, there have been questions about how these actions will benefit the companies that opened their patents up. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Wanted: One Enterprise Applications Blogger I was talking to Alorie Gilbert from CNet yesterday about the relationship between bloggers and journalists. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Searching For Searches Arik Hesseldahl of Forbes looks at recent developments in search, Jux2 and Firefox search add-ons. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Wiki-Based Search Engine Claims To Be Web's Biggest Eric Ward takes an in-depth look at the wiki-based search engine, modestly named, Web's Biggest. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 ClickTracks Launches New Optimizer Tool ClickTracks has launched a new mid-range analytics product, ClickTracks Optimizer. Designed for consultants and search engine marketers ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Reactions To Windows Genuine Advantage Program The other day, Microsoft announced their Windows Genuine Advantage Program, which was designed to reduce piracy of the Microsoft's operating system, would be mandatory if users would like to continue to receive Windows updates. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Searching for Search News There was lots of search engine news this week. There's news about Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and much more. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Teen Sentenced In Blaster Worm Trial A Minnesota teen found guilty of authoring a variant to the Blaster worm which infected almost 50000 systems, was sentenced today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-28 Adam Curry to Launch Podcast Network Lookout MTV, later this winter podcasting pioneer Adam Curry and partners plan to launch a podcasting network ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 New Communications Forum: Day 1 From my own perspective, the first day of New Communications Forum 2005 has been an enlightening experience. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 500 Years Of Blogging History... You think you're an early adopter because you're using blogs to be heard? Forget it. Martin Luther, Thomas Paine, George Orwell were all way ahead of you. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Pew Internet Search Engine User Study Data Pew / Internet released a report January 23rd about internet search engine users. The title of the report is Internet Searchers Are Confident, satisfied and trusting - but they are also unaware and naive. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Podcast Movie Reviews A clever idea - movie reviews that are delivered via podcast ... Reel Reviews Syndicated On DVD Talk Radio. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Wikis Pose a Threat to Costly Media Directories One tool that PR professionals rely on daily is the trusty media directory. The leading company in this space ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Email Security Vulnerabilities Stong for Small Businesses Postini released an annual report on the state of email security that points to dramatic vulnerabilities for small businesses. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Yahoo Leading Local Search? From Technology Review magazine comes a post about how Yahoo has the biggest head start in the local search field as well ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Google Blogger Back Online After Mark Jen's blog was apparently pulled off the web due to the new Google employee revealing a little too much about the company ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Become Crawler Info For Webmasters A few days ago I told you about the new Become shopping search engine and gave you a glimpse at what you can expect from it. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Microsoft To Pirates: No More Windows Updates Citing the need to combat growing software piracy, Microsoft has introduced its Genuine Microsoft Software program, designed to authenticate whether or not Windows has been pirated. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Amazon Brings Yellow Pages to Life Amazon's A9.com has launched A9.com Yellow Pages featuring "Block View" technology which shows a street view of businesses and their surroundings. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Mac Mini Colo Rack Ever dream about building a cluster of 5 mini-itx computers to run the world's smallest search engine ,,, Well I have. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Amazon's Plan to Add Pics to A9 Local Search CNet has details of A9's plans to add images to local search results. The online retailer's search unit, A9.com ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Insights on GM Executive Blog If you've been wondering who was behind The GM Fastlane Blog, General Motors' step into the public blogosphere by executive blogger Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Is Google Inflating Index Size? Jean Véronis has some interesting research that he suggests raises questions about the accuracy of Google's index count. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Google Makes AdWords API Available So Google played dumb and we all went along with the official statement, that there would be "no comment" on rumors of a ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Podcasters Hunt for Conference Sponsor with eBay Auction My down under blog buddies Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic, who produce the ...... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 The Microsoft Anti-Piracy Plan Microsoft has announced that it will now require Windows users to verify that their copy of the OS software is genuine before they can receive updates and security fixes. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-27 Sun Decides To Join Open Source Patent Move Technology giants continue to embrace the open source community by releasing a number of patents on their products. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Do You Know The Bloggers You Read? Hans Henrik raises an interesting question: How much do you need to know about a blogger to actually feel you know him or her ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Nooked - SimpleFeed Competitor? I saw an AdSense listing on my blog the other day about a company called Nooked. At first glance they appear to do the exact same thing ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Apple VP Marketing Tunes Into Podcasts Apple's Vice President of Marketing, Phil Schiller, is apparently wild about podcasting. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Unionized Blogging Here's a novel idea, a union is blogging to get it's message out. The L.A. Daily News reports that a major city union this week ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 The Super Bowl Ad Blog See Spot. See Spot Build Buzz ... Intelliseek's Super Bowl Ad project is ramping up and I am joining the fray. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Google May Have Pulled a Corp. Blogger from Its Web Index Searchwatcher John Battelle notes that Google Blogoscoped found a blogging Googler who was posting openly about the company. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 iPod Shuffle Doesn’t Support On-Demand Playlist 2005 has been quite the busy year for Apple, and it's only 26 days old. Already, Apple has introduced, to much fanfare, the Mac Mini and the iPod Shuffle. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Bacon's Approach To Blog Tracking Some blog research conducted on Media Map has me curious about Bacon's approach to blog tracking. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Is it Real or Is it Memorex? Mark Glaser asks the million dollar question in his thorough analysis of Apple v. Citizen Journalists ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko is Blogging - Sorta A world leader has joined the blogosphere - sorta. Viktor Yuschenko, who was recently sworn in as Ukraine's president ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Alabama Spam Ring Broken Up By EarthLink Internet sevice provider EarthLink has claimed a victory over two men accused of using EarthLink's service to send large amounts of spam. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 JupiterResearch Blogs Reap Business Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler writes that since the company's analysts started writing blogs two years ago ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Contextual Ads - Are They "Search" or Not? Danny Sullivan has a summary of his recent keynote at SES Chicago. One interesting thought he has... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Bloglines' Rapid Growth Gives It Great Power Using publicly available data from Bloglines, Infoworld's John Udell analyzed the subscription trends of several major tech blogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Comparison Shopping Search Engines In the latest issue of Catalog Age, our very own Heather Lloyd-Martin not only provides insight on advertising on shopping comparison sites, but she also manages to get her face on the cover. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Germany: Blogs On Their Way To Media Things are happening in and around the German blogosphere according to BlogInitiativeGermany. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Ask Jeeves Developing Wireless Search Service Catching-up on this story. Ask Jeeves talks about its plans to launch a wireless search service for cell phones. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Google Set to Provide AdWords API Matt Hicks at eWeek delves into the rumors that Google is about to open up access to AdWords. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Blogs In Crisis Communication I'm sitting in Shel Holtz' session on "The Blog's New Role in Crisis Communication." Some highlights ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-26 Old Video of Steve Jobs Introducing the Mac A link in SearchBrains.com that led to a blog post by Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research linked to a restored video of Steve Jobs introducing the Macintosh for the first time. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Google Launches Video Search Beta Fast on the heels of Yahoo's introduction of their video search tab, Google launched the beta version of Google Video Search. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 iTunes Sales Continue To Boom Yesterday, a report released sales figures for Apple's iTunes music service. With over 250 million songs sold, iTunes continues to solidify its parent company's position in the Internet industry. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Google Video Search Implications The Kelsey Group has brought to light some interesting implications regarding recent advancements in the video search world and I think they need to be read. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 CNET: All Glory No Guts CNet announced that it's providing TrackBack support for all of it's news stories now. However, they didn't say anything about linking to relevant sites from within their stories. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Let The Google Browser Rumors Begin Again Towards the end of last year, it was rumored that Google would be, by partnering with Firefox, entering the browser section of Internet technologies. All parties categorically denied this talk. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Google's Per-User AdSense Tweaking As reported by Inside Google: Google is testing out a new functionality for AdSense ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Globus Consortium To Promote Business-based Grid Computing Power players from the technology industry have joined forces to form the Globus Consortium. The purpose of the group is to promote grid computing within the business sector. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Samsung Soups Up DRAM Samsung has begun production on what it considers the fastest DRAM chip available. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Pepsi Challenge: Consumers Hack Their Promotions One of the most interesting developments in the golden era of transparency is that consumers are sharing all kinds of information to hack/circumvent traditional promotions such as coupons, contests and giveaways. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 CNet Trackback Spam Is Now Well Underway I told you people were going to start spamming it. We'll see if CNet's new trackback policy is worth the IT headaches it's going to cause. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 A fireFOX in the Google Hen House Google's hiring of the lead Firefox engineer has started the rumor mill rolling. Is this a prelude to the purchase of Firefox ... First here is what Ben said in announcing his new gig: Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-25 Early Bloggers Show Way To The Corporate Tipping Point Gapingvoid talks about the corporate tipping point, "...the point where blogging stops being the supposed realm of freaks, weirdos [...] and starts being ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Boeing's VP of Marketing Launches a Blog Randy Baseler, VP of Marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has started a blog called Randy's Blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Enterprise Blogging In Practice Coté's Weblog gives us interesting insights about internal blogging in the case study Enterprise Blogging in Practice. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Reactions to the Pew Study on Search Engine Users I'm seeing some amusing reactions to the just released Pew study on Search Engine Users. Disclaimer ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 IBM To Launch 64-Bit Linux Server IBM today announced it will offer a new, low-priced IBM POWER5 processor-based server running the Linux operating system. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Bropia Worm Uses MSN Messenger A mischievous worm has been making the rounds, with help, in part, from Microsoft's instant messenger client. Called the Bropia worm, the virus uses MSN Messenger buddy lists to propagate itself. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Is Google Preparing VoIP Services? Weekend reports indicate search engine Google may be preparing a free voice-over IP service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Blogs and Email Go Head-to-Head at Microsoft Kevin Briody, who manages Microsoft's academic developer effort to reach US college students, is trying ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Users Confuse Natural and Paid Search Engine Results So information from a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, suggests that only 18% of search engine users can tell the difference between paid and natural search engine results. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Why Isn't Ketchum Blogging? So, did I miss anything while I was in New York? Wow. Jay Rosen sets off a flurry of posts that prove out Blog Power. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 As Sites Add Tags, Tagtextual Advertising Will Follow Here's new evidence that 2005 will be the year of folksonomies - commonly known as tags. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Google Loses French Trade Mark Case According to Out-Law.com, Google France has lost a trade mark action brought by hotel chain Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 PeopleSoft Job seekers Try eBay After a team of in-house creatives was displaced following Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, the group turned to eBay to try and find work ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Blogs Come of Age as a News Source SF Chronicle: Weblogs Come Of Age As a News Source, "Scott Rafer, chief executive for Feedster, a San Francisco search engine for blog entries, foresees a day when more people make money from their blogs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 iTunes Announces 250 Million Sales Today, Apple-owned iTunes announced successful financial numbers concerning the sale of music from its service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Become Shopping Search PreLaunch When I talked about Michael Yang's new search engine I didn't give much detail as to what it would do, how it was put together, what made it unique and so forth. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Amazon Opens Up Expanded Web Services To Canada, France Amazon is allowing access to tools used during the development of web applications used the company's e-commerce site. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Yahoo!: "Blog" Keyword Searches Up 10% Over Past Week The Yahoo! Buzz Index reports that blogging continues its march on the mainstream ......... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Blogs Make Perfect Aids To Learning BBC News: Blogs are increasingly being used by academics and students. Until a few months ago, the attention paid to web logs, or blogs, focused mainly on politics and the media business. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 What did Online Retailers Learn in 2004? The E-Commerce Times takes a look at the lessons learned by the online retail industry in 2004. Search was, obviously, the biggest lesson learned. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 New WebTrends 7 Offers Tools for Search Engine Marketers WebTrends has updated its analytics software with more features for search engine marketers (SEM's). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 VoIP Service Coming from Google? Some say that Google is getting ready to launch a free internet telephone service in the UK. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Is Google Ready to Offer AdWords API? I sure hope that the rumors are true. I'd love to be able to confirm or deny them, but Google simply gives the "no comment at this time" response. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Blog Post Rekindles Google Browser Rumor Ben Goodger, the lead developer on Firefox, announced on his blog today that he is joining Google. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Yahoo Adding Video Search Tab Yahoo announced in their blog tonight that it is integrating video search into tabs on the Yahoo front page. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-24 Me Want Mac Mini Mac Mini is such a cute name for a computer that it makes you wonder if this Mac is just a childs toy. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-23 Firefox Nation There is no greater example of the power of blogging and open source marketing than the rise of the Firefox Web browser. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-23 Web Users Confuse Search Results and Ads Here's a not-to-subtle reminder that not all online users are as savvy as we may think. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-23 Tracking Overture Campaigns with Google AdWords This is really interesting. As Candida writes on Silicon Valley Watcher: Check out Google's latest ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Bloggers Bust ABC News Over Planned Inauguration/Military Funeral Story Cybercast News Service reports that on Wednesday bloggers were quick to pick up on a message posted on the ABC News website ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Top 10 Words Used in a Blog's Name Elliott Back has put together an analysis of the top 100 words used in a weblog's name ......... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 What's your favorite Flickr group? There aren't many contributors, but the stuff that shows up there really appeals to my sense of desert scenery. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Top 100 RSS feeds Blogging service Radio Userland has a very useful list of the top 100 most subscribed-to RSS feeds. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Podcasting Goes Corporate Two signs point to rising corporate interest in podcasting. First, Frederik Wacka points to the ...... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Linux: A Very Different Business Model For its 31 January edition, Business Week has an intriguing story online about Linus Torvalds, the Finnish creator of the ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Scoble Calls Off Microsoft Legal Eagles An update to my prior post. Jason Calacanis writes that Robert Scoble introduced him to the folks in the Windows Mobile ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Google Dramatically Increases Word Limit ResearchBuzz is reporting that Google has raised their previous 10 word search limit to 32. That's quite a leap. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Firefox Success Stirs the Microsoft Haters Any news that goes against Microsoft seems to enliven the anti - Microsoft crowd. This weeks news that FireFox is gaining ground on IE was no different. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 The Apple of Apple's Eye Keeps Churning Out News Nicholas Ciarelli, publisher of ThinkSecret and a Harvard University student, who is currently facing legal threats from Apple ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 Firefox Up, Explorer Down The browser wars are back. Over 19 million people have downloaded Mozilla Firefox and this is starting to put a dent in Internet Explorer usage. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-22 CNN News Alert Could Be Email Worm Emails with CNN Breaking News as the subject may be infected with a malicious worm. The virus community has created the Crowt-A worm, a file that arrives attached to contaminated mailings. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Sony PSP Shipments Now At 800,000 When the Sony Playstation Portable was readying for release in Japan, many wondered whether or not it would be a success. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Bloggers Rate Super Bowl Ads The Merc: A convergence of factors - the near-religious fervor in which Americans identify with, and talk about, their favorite products ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 GM Teaser Campaign's Secret Message When I read Tig's post about there being a hidden message in GM's outdoor billboard campaign, my brain switched into Ralphie ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Hidden Dangers with Public Wi-Fi It's becoming a common thing to see people sitting in public places - train stations, airports, the local Starbucks ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Risk Of Becoming Too Peripheral Academic bloggers, Therese at Emerging Communications writes, "...often choose not to blog about issues that are 'right on' when it ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Firefox Continues To Gain On Internet Explorer Although some may argue that the numbers don't quite add up, it appears we have an honest to goodness browser war brewing. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Link Condoms Reduce the Risks of Unsafe Linking And you thought nofollow was the solution to all your linking woes ... Not so ... The new ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Ethics and Citizen Journalism The Wall Street Journal today published a curtain-raiser article (no sub. required) previewing this weekend's ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Weblogs Inc. Sends VW Ad Packing Congrats to Jason Calacanis ---- our winner of the week. One of his blogs, autoblog ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Microsoft Gags Tech News Bloggers Reported on Neowin this afternoon: After an exclusive story here at Neowin.net regarding future Windows Mobile Technologies ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Negative Reactions To Outlook Hotmail Service Microsoft offers a spiffy new service called Microsoft Office Outlook Live and what do people do ... complain of course. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Target.com Offers Mac Mini In what can be viewed as a response to customer demand, Apple has allowed Target.com to sale Mac Minis to their retail audience. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-21 Microsoft Introduces Office Outlook Live Combining the abilities of Hotmail and Outlook, Microsoft has unveiled Office Outlook Live. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Pinging Builds Blog Traffic, But Risks Abuse The common practice of "pinging" enables you to alert major blog indexes like ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 The Blogging Community Look Like Idiots This International Bloggers' Bill of Rights makes the blogging community look like idiots. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Google Search and Picasa: Where to Now? Google's known for developing great services without necessarily knowing how they're going to monitize them. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Bloggers Blasted For Ignoring Pay-For-Promotion US press critic and writer Jay Rosen takes a hefty swipe at PR bloggers, with a blanket accusation ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Creative Communication Not For Everyone Producing interesting or compelling content is creative work. So who is able to do that ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Rosen Blasts PR Bloggers The esteemed Jay Rosen from NYU writes that the PR bloggers failed to show up in commenting on ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 New Yawkers Say "We Love 'dem Blogs" Early this morning - as part of my planned "Manhattan Project" - a friend of mine and I ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Eeek! Beware of the Blogs! Eeek! Beware of the scary bloggers! That's what Dellahaye is saying with the title of their ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Student Sued By Apple Finds Pro Bono Representation Nicholas Ciarelli, the student who was sued by Apple, will be receiving Pro Bono representation from Terry Gross, a lawyer from the San Francisco-based firm Gross & Belsky. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Definitive Blog Book Gains Traction Things are beginning to move with The Red Couch, the collaborative work on producing what could be the definitive business book ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Boeing Starts An Executive Blog Following the General Motors executive blog earlier this month, another Fortune 100 company takes a step into the blogosphere ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Apple, Microsoft Lawyers Get Busy With Bloggers This is shaping up as the year of suing/sending cease and desist letters to bloggers... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Re: Firefox The IE Killer I got the following email from someone that doesn't like FireFox. Honestly, I had to pick myself up off the floor because I was laughing so hard. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Correction To The internetnews.com Story In Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam, Susan wrote the following based on an interview with me yesterday ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Corporate Podcasting There have been reports about it before, but mostly from a marketing perspective. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Sony CEO Howard Stringer - Future Blogger? Sony CEO Howard Stringer quoted on CNET News.com.... Q: You're a former journalist. What do you think about blogs and their impact ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-20 Killing Blog Comment Spam Steve Rubel posted today about a technique Google's supposedly testing out that will remove the incentive for comment spammers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 We Need New Business Blog Stars ClickZ explains how a brand blog can be measured (via marcomblog). I wanna be enthusiastic about this. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Panix Hijacking Blamed On Australian Registrar The recent domain hijacking of Panix.com, the Internet presence of Public Access Networks, has been blamed on Australian domain registration company, MelbourneIT. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Legal Online Music Downloads Booming The Internet music business appears to be booming. After overcoming the "Napster" stigma, online music stores have seen a dramatic increase in customers and sales/downloads. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Toshiba Develops PC Remote Control Software Giving users the means to access their computers via a mobile phone, Toshiba has introduced new mobile software that turns phones into a computer remote control. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Analog Search To The Rescue Wired Mag reports on the most popular methods of searching employed when people's lives are on the line. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 iPod Shuffle Has 4 Week Waiting List Apple's new, flash memory based media player, the iPod Shuffle, has had such an impressive demand rate that those looking to purchase it are facing a potential 4 week waiting period. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Google Tag To Help Prevent Comment Spam Lots of comment in the blogosphere overnight about the new anti-spam comment tag that Google announced yesterday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update Oracle has released a group of critical security patches for a number of the company's products. These patches mark the first time Oracle has released security updates after deciding in 2004 to do so on a quarterly basis. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Omniture Introduces Search Engine Bid Management and Optimization Omniture, the largest provider of on-demand web analytics, today publicly announced Omniture Search Engine Manager, a true breakthrough for search engine bid management and optimization that represents the next phase in the evolution... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Peer-2-Peer Trial Nets Convictions A trial against P2P operators has garnered a pair of convictions today, the first of its kind in the United States' fight against the file sharing industry. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 ATI Launches X700 Graphics Processor Graphics hardware company ATI has brought PCI Express graphics to the notebook industry with the introduction of its X700 PCI Express graphics processor. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Blogosphere Population Tops 8 Million PubSub reports that it is now tracking 8 million weblogs. More than six million new blogs have popped up just in the last six months. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 IBM, Dell Release Notebooks With New Centrino Chip Quickly capitalizing on the Intel/Centrino Sonoma update, Dell and IBM have released notebooks that feature the new chipset. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Reactions To Google’s Picasa Update Yesterday, Google launched Picasa 2.0, an updated version of their acquired digital image management software. Reaction to software seemed quite positive, especially those concerning the price tag. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-19 Blogging, Journalism and Credibility Webcast Jon Dube points to a group of bloggers and journalists who are gathering at Harvard on Jan. 21 and 22 for a conference ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Google Going after Dark Fiber CNET News.com reports that Google is making a push for Dark Fiber. A recent job posting states ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Google Updates Picasa Today, Google released Picasa 2.0, an updated version of their digital photo software. The free package allows users to organize, edit, and share digital photographs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Another Internet Explorer Hole Found? Security experts from Symantec and Finjan have posted information about a new vulnerability that affects Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, even versions that have the Service Pack 2 update. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Microsoft Issues NT4 Critical Updates Although they indicated support would cease, Microsoft has issued two critical updates for their NT4 server software package. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Oracle Unleashes Army of Developers Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced the release by 2008 of "Project Fusion," the company's next-generation information- oriented application architecture and application set. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 A Widening Spectrum Of European Professional Blogs I've been following the expansion of corporate and organizational blogging in Europe for a while now. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Yahoo Comments On Comment Spam Yahoo joins Google, MSN, Apart and WordPress in approving a new technique to fight comment spam. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Google Introduces NoFollow Tag Google had a lot to say in its blog today. Google sees blog comment spam as negatively effecting its Blogger.com asset. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 MSN Joins Battle Against Blog Spam Ken Moss, the General Manger of MSN Search Dev & Test announced in the MSN Search WebLog their support of the new NoFollow tag. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-18 Bloggers Break Big Apple, HP Scoop Watch this space. It's relatively empty right now, but it will fill up with dozens of news stories over the next few days. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Former Yahoo Employee Blogging From the Jungle Kalyan was one of the early employees of Yahoo's Software Development Center in Bangalore, India. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Online Ad Market In Europe Set For Shake Up New York Times: A motor scooter in Manchester, an apartment in Amsterdam, a poster in Paris. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Blogs Enhance Search Engine Raking If you want to know why the relationship between blogs and search engines is important, here's a good place to start. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Reference Tracking Via Technorati, Feedster, and Bloglines I was listening to the Jan 14th Gilmor Gang a little while ago. This is the first time I've listened to the show. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Tsunami Help Wiki for Broadcasters Launched Launched yesterday - Broadcasters-Tsunamihelp, a new wiki-based portal that aims to ensure there is coordination between broadcasters and non-governmental organizations ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Symantec's Confusing Anti-Virus Alerts My company notebook apparently has Symantec AntiVirus installed, 'cause it just popped up an odd dialog box. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 FTC Shuts Down Porn Companies Over Spam With the goal of curbing pornographic spam, the FTC has won an injunction that allows them to shutdown operations of six adult-orientated web sites because of CAN-SPAM violations. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Enterprise Linux 4 Preparing For Launch Red Hat is readying themselves for the Enterprise Linux 4 launch, which is scheduled for release next month. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Microsoft Makes Avalon Available Citing a response to user requests, Microsoft has offered the public a downloadable preview of Avalon, a new graphics and presentation engine designed for Windows. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Bloggers Fact Check CBS Yet Again The New York Times reports that after an independent panel published its findings on CBS' use of unverified documents ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Google Goes Live In 11 More Countries Eleven new countries - territories now have their own version of Google. Google now has over 100 country or region specific Google's. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Panix Domain Hijacked Panix, an Internet service provider for the New York area, was the victim of a domain hijacking this past weekend. The attack has put the ISP in a recovery mode as they effort to restore the domain back to normal. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Firefox Spike Re-igniting Browser Wars The Yahoo! search blog made a post about the sudden rise of Firefox. The possibility of a new browser war is interesting, but ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Comcast Increases Bandwidth For High Speed Customers In what some are considering a shot at DSL service providers, Comcast, the nation's largest broadband provider, has announced they will be increasing the speed of their broadband service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Spend 70 Minutes with Robert Scoble Seventy minutes. That's all you need to get a solid overview of just why blogs will be so important to marketing and PR in the 21st Century. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Co-branded Broadband from Yahoo and Verizon Verizon and Yahoo are partnering to deliver a co-branded broadband offering to subscribers to Verizon Online's DSL and new fiber-based FiOS services. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Texas Files Lawsuit Against Spammers Joined by Microsoft, the state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against what they term as "the world's fourth largest spammer." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Centrino Update Coming From Intel Intel has announced an update to their mobile computing technology Centrino is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. It's during this update that Intel is expected to unveil the new Sonoma line, which is expected to target the home consumer. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Phishers, Email Viruses Exploit Tsunami Disaster Adding insult to injury, virus writers and online phishing scammers have started exploiting efforts for the Tsunami aid for malicious means. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Student Who Was Sued By Apple Seeks Legal Aid Nicholas Ciarelli, the student who was sued by Apple because of a leak about the Mac Mini that appeared on his web site, is in need of legal assistance. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Hewlett-Packard To Launch New Server Line Looking to improve their standing in the enterprise section of technology, H-P has announced they are preparing to introduce a new line of servers and related software. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 FeeBay: Spinning the eBay Price Increases I've always wondered what journalists have to put up with when trying to write a story about unpopular corporate decisions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam On the surface, when Dave Winer put up a placeholder post this weekend on the Bloggercon site ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Earthlink Debuts Corporate Blog Earthlink, a major ISP, today debuted its first corporate weblog. The TypePad-powered ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-17 Get Folksy with Folksonomies One of the most important social media trends to watch this year is the increasing influence of tags, also known as folksonomies. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-16 Blogging or 'Horrendous Journalism' My post last Friday with caveats about Microsoft AntiSpyware has drawn the ire of one person who read that post here as well as the one republished by WebProNews. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-16 Howard Dean Paid Bloggers More evidence we're living in a new media world with few rules. David Akin notes that The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, "...that the Daily Kos and another blog received $3,000 a month for four months from the Howard Dean campaign." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-15 Oracle Layoffs Confirmed A few days ago I went on a rant about Oracle having layoffs and that some of my friends would probably be losing their jobs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-15 Where Will You Store Your Data? Over on SiliconBeat, I ran across their How big is Bloglines? story. Before I get into what I really wanted to say ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Should Google Buy Technorati? Russell Shaw of The Industry Standard thinks Google should buy blog-tracker and search engine Technorati. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 10 Reasons Why Marketers Should Blog Blogs are a cheap, convenient and enjoyable form of PR and marketing that should be part of every business plan in 2005, writes Bob Cargill, senior creative director of Yellowfin Direct Marketing. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Caveats With New Microsoft AntiSpyware I've been using the new free Microsoft AntiSpyware tool released in beta last week. What impressed me in particular is it's real-time preventative approach. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Google May be the Favored Tool of Hackers in 2005 ZDNet predicts that Google will be increasingly used by hackers, looking to find their way into your computer. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Windows Mobile, Flickr, MapPoint, AT&T, and Photoblogging This is interesting. The Windows Mobile team has combined Flickr's moblogging capabilities with the location data from the AT&T network to produce an interesting technology demo. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Using Blogs To Get Global Awareness Elizabeth Albrycht has written a terrific article about business blogging, just published in IABC's online member newsletter, CW Bulletin. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-14 Staying Power of the Friendster Post I've noticed a recent spike in hits to my famous Fired for Blogging post, in which I broke the story of Friendster's stupidest move and tracked the growing coverage for a few days. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 My Blog Will Soon Be Superfluous Chris Locke asks a question I've asked myself a couple of times: "...this is just a thought, but I'm going to say it here anyway, even though I'm a little afraid I might get yelled at ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Corporate Blogging At The Security Awareness Company Greg Hoffman: "The company has been around for 15 years but blogging has helped brand our company as the premier Security Awareness team in the industry; all while saving us time and money." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Extoling the Virtues of Blogging Yesterday the PRSA Westchester/Fairfield chapter was kind enough to invite me up to Greenwich, CT to give a lunchtime talk about blogging's impact on PR. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Google Claims Gmail Bug Fixed According to published reports, Google has repaired a serious Gmail bug within 24 hours of its discovery by HBX Networks. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Online Ad Spend to Grow by 30 Percent This Year This is great news for all of us in online marketing... "Marketers will increase online ad spending by as much as 30 percent in 2005 ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Google Not Allowing Slang in AdWords The NY Times - ever ready to write an article on any topic, as long as there is a connection to Google - today looks at the high standards Google places on AdWords advertisers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Google Small Business Search This is awesome. Google has released a search appliance geared towards small businesses. From Reuters ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 J-Bloggers Still Revolve Around the Mother Ship Adam Penenberg at Wired News has a fascinating story about the challenges journalist bloggers face ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Yahoo Baby Not sure what to think about this one but I guess a couple has decided to name their baby Yahoo. I don't think they're using the "!" so it shouldn't be a trademark infringement :) Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Google Taking Too Long With Beta Testing ZDNet looks at the dark side of Google. The dark side? Yep, they're bad boys for not getting the products out of beta. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Google In the Clear Over Playboy Spread No penalties for Google's interview with Playboy... Now, if Page and Brin had done a center spread, I'd be calling for billions in damages. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Yahoo, MSN Close Gap, Google Still Tops A survey has revealed Google is still the number one search engine; but MSN and Yahoo are closing the gap. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 eBay Raising Fees eBay announced that it is going to be raising fees by as much as 60% in some areas. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 Advertising Pros Say The Kid's Alright Over at imediaconnection, Scott Witt, Group Director, Digital, SMV Group, and Adam Boozer, Sr.Creative Director, IQTV, analyze iPod lover and teacher George Masters self-created online campaign for Apple iPod. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-13 A Blog Only Media Diet Something has been bugging me since I started this blog last year and I want to try to get to the root of it. The year 2004 was a major milestone for blogging. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 The First 106 Miles A bit over an hour ago I got home from the first meeting of 106 Miles, which Joyce describes as: a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers in Silicon Valley. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 iPod Shuffle: The new Official Cool This could be a no-brainer decision for anyone (like me, for instance) contemplating getting a digital music player - get an iPod Shuffle. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 NASA Preparing Deep Impact Launch With a scheduled launch time for today at 1:47 PM EST, NASA is preparing to send a multimillion-dollar satellite into the heart of a comet. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 The Yahoo Problem If Dave can call something the "Yahoo Problem" then I can call it the Dave Winer Problem. It's good way to make sure we see each other's stuff, huh? :-) Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Porn Industry To Figure In DVD Standard Selection With the fight between Blu-Ray DVD supporters and HD-DVD backers starting to take shape, the adult entertainment industry may have a decisive say in determining the outcome. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Microsoft Releases Three Security Patches Microsoft has released three patches for their Windows operating system earlier today. Two of the patches are considered to be critical security updates. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Sophos Details New Mass Mailing Worm Security company Sophos has released a warning detailing the new email worm, Wurmark-D. The mailing presents itself as a Happy New Year greeting, containing images of nude men and women spelling the salutation out. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Apple Aims to Take Desktop Search Crown Apple CEO Steve Jobs has fired a warning shot across the bow of Google and MSN, claiming that the new desktop search product for the Mac, named Spotlight, will be an industry leader. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Why You Shouldn't Lie to the SEC You'd think some people would learn - you don't try to circumvent SEC rules. You'll likely get caught and the penalty will be much more than any gain you may have achieved. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Scraping Google To See What Happens John Battelle points to an act of rebellion by Google nemesis, Danial Brandt. Brandt has created a tool that scrapes the Google results so they can be stripped of all AdWords ads. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 BusinessWeek Launches Tech Blogs BusinessWeek Online yesterday launched two tech-focused blogs as part of its redesigned tech and science channel. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Samsung Introduces Motion Sensitive Phone Mobile phone innovations continue to arrive at a rapid pace. Being no stranger to said innovations; Samsung has introduced a motion sensitive mobile phone. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Improve Shareholder Relations Via Blog There's a an extremely good report on IR Web Report, published yesterday, on why corporate boards should blog to improve their communication with shareholders. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Apple Mac's Spotlight May Be Holy Grail of Desktop Search I've been speaking to some journalists about desktop search and they all want to know what desktop search means for the search engines. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Russian Rockets Responsible For Child Illness A Russian rocket site in Kazakhstan is being blamed for higher children sickness rates in the surrounding residential areas. The culprit is thought to be unburned fuel being sprayed out when the rockets launch. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 New Apple Products Cause Site Slowdown Yesterday, Apple announced the release of a number of new products to their line of computers and media players. The introduction of these items has caused an increase in traffic that has caused their site to experience slowdowns. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 SEMcares About Who? SEMcares; right sentiment, wrong implementation. The Tsunami was devasting, people should give generously, bragging about it is in bad taste. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Can Desktop Search Find Profits for the Search Engines? Gary points to an article by Ben Elgin of Business Week. He takes a look at the recent desktop search offerings and closes with some ideas about how the search engines can make some money from desktop searches. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Samsung Introduces New Digital TV Receiver Chip Although it may not have had quite the impact of Apple's new product introduction, Samsung has introduced two new products today, one in the mobile phone arena and the other for digital television. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Serious Bug Found In Google Gmail HBX Networks has discovered a bug in Google Gmail that hackers could take advantage of to access private emails. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 My Mastermind Group This week I just completed reading listening to Jack Canfield's new book - The Success Principles ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-12 Apple To Unveil Plans For 2005 While fighting to keep a lid on leaks, Apple is preparing to introduce their list of upcoming items to be released this year. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 AMD Officially Announces Mobile Processor Turion Looking to compete Intel's Pentium-M mobile chip, AMD has introduced its Turion processor, a 64-bit chip designed for mobile-based technologies. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Yahoo Desktop Search Superior To Google & MSN Late yesterday, Yahoo announced the launch of their desktop search application that will compete directly with offerings from Google and MSN. At first glance, YDS appears superior in features and performance to Google and MSN desktop search apps. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 IBM Releases 500 Patents For Open Source Community With one of the largest embraces of the open source community ever, IBM has announced that it will be releasing 500 software patents to open source developers, establishing a platform for increased innovations. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 MBA Launches Blogger Legal Defense Project As bloggers increasingly face the ire of corporate lawsuits (witness Apple's recent maneuvers) and until the courts set a precedent, there is an opportunity for the legal community to rally to assist bloggers in defending themselves. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 New SMA-NA Continue to Gain Traction MediaPost takes a look at the newly forming SMA-Na - a North American association that will represent the interests of SEO providers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Blog News Round Up Here's a round up of blog related and other interesting tidbits I picked up over the last few days .... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 I'll Pass On Yahoo Desktop Search Another entrant into the crowded desktop search market debuts today - Yahoo Desktop Search, available in beta for download now. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Oracle Laying Off Friends Usually I don't post stuff that's off topic but this calls for it. For those of you that don't know, Oracle is merging with PeopleSoft and there are going to be massive layoffs on Friday. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Is SEMPO Dead? SMA-NA Says You're Fired! There's a new kid on the North American search engine marketing block and it's has a target painted on the back of SEMPO. Several folks are talking about the story. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 New Craigslist Real Estate Listing Fee In a story from MediaPost, CraigsList is considering charging a fee for real estate listings. Here are a couple blurbs from their story. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 McAfee Launches SiteDigger 2.0 Using Google's search index has a tool, McAfee has launched SiteDigger 2.0, a utility designed to locate human error information vulnerabilities that can show up in search engines. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Why Corporate Boards Should Blog The IR Web Report provides a long list of reasons for boards to start blogging and 10 thoughts, debates, myths and issues boards might discuss in the hope they won't need to blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 New Cell Phone Virus Discovered F-Secure, a Finnish Internet security company, has discovered a new cell phone virus called Lasco.A. The virus spreads via Bluetooth technology and by attaching itself to files contained on mobile phones. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 Apple Introduces Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle Today at the MacWorld conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced new products for the Apple family that has left Mac supporters salivating. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-11 A Worthy Checklist For Presentation Planning Seth Levine, a Principal at Mobius Venture Capital in the US, posted a handy guide on putting together an effective presentation when you're calling on VCs to pitch your wares. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Corporate Blogging A Failure For Tower According to the stillhq.com blogger ... his company's test of internal corporate blogging has been a failure so far. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Companies Blog to Establish a Dialogue The Minneapolis - St. Paul Business Journal reports that companies are starting to blog for sales and to establish a dialogue. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Google Riches Cause Tension Typically, a story about new-found wealth of employees, after an IPO, would not be worth writing or reading. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 New IE Flaws Get “Extremely Critical” Rating Three new security vulnerabilities have been found in Internet Explorer 6, they could allow hackers to execute spyware and dialers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Why Did Google Let The "Google Store" Trademark Lapse? File this under "I didn't know that, but didn't really care anyway". The Industry Standard looks at a trademark application, that Google let die ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Blog Program Nominated for PRWeek Award PRWeek this morning revealed the short list of nominees for the 2005 PRWeek Awards. I am proud to announce ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 SEMPO Threatened by SMA-MA Just when you thought SEMPO had inhaled its last breath and quietly slipped away, we hear that they're not only still around, by very much scared of the newly created SMA-NA. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Blogger Claims He Predicted Indonesian Earthquake I am going to have to channel Nostradamus to get to the bottom of this one. Apparently, Dan Sherman, a blogger ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 The New Face of Advertising A 20-year-old US man is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on eBay, BBC News reports. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Internal Blogging More In Focus - Blog Consultants Beware Internal blogging is discussed more and more. It doesn't surprise me. If we compare to web communication in general an intranet is for many companies more effective in terms of ROI than an external site. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 Venture Capitalists Gaga Over Online Advertising 2005 Consumer Electronics Show had VC companies singing the praises of online advertising, according to MediaPost. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-10 New Skype for Windows Released Skype has launched version 1.1 of its internet phone application for Windows: "Skype launches v1.1 for Windows and introduces the new Chat feature ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 The Inadequacies of Current Copyright Laws So bloggers are firmly among the guilty in the area of ignoring copyright: "… Bloggers, in general, have little respect for copyright laws and tend to snatch and grab anything out there as "theirs". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Checkmate for Microsoft? I was checking out our new SearchBrains.com site which crawls articles from numerous blogs related to the search engine industry and links to them minutes after they are posted. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Putting the Mac Aside in 2005 Something has been bugging me for the last few months. Though I got my nice new Mac and switched to using it has my main personal desktop/laptop machine, it's been a frustrating experience at times. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Tsunami Agony For Sweden Continues While pledges for financial aid continue to mount in the aftermath of the Asian earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago, the nightmare continues for millions of people in South Asia ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Tapping into Tags Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion (also published in WebProNews) gets it. He's telling folks to watch Flckr tags for their products and such... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Fishing For Podcasts I've been listening to quite a few podcasts during the past week, especially since Shel Holtz and I started our weekly podcast a week ago. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Apple's Legal Moves May Force Blog Closure Jason Calacanis wrote an open letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, saying that he may shut down Weblogs Inc.'s unofficial Apple blog because he wants to avoid getting sued. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Watch Out For Tsunami Relief Email Scams The millions of dollars donated by individuals to relief efforts in Southeast Asia have brought criminals and scammers out of the woodwork, US government agencies and private anti-fraud groups warned last week, Internetworld.com reported. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Me And Bill Living In Different Worlds What do you say about this ... Bill Gates in a Gizmodo interview: "Almost everything that's being published on the web now has RSS notification on it ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Apple Getting A Bit Saucy Apple, over the years, has enjoyed better press than probably any other company on the planet. Well, that hasn't stopped Apple from going on the attack when it feels stung. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 The California Death Storms The Sierra Nevada received its biggest snowfall since 1916, only the latest in an onslaught of storms to hit California. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Yahoo Travel is Hiring! If you've ever wanted to work for one of the largest and most popular on-line travel sites, now's your chance. Yahoo Travel is hiring in a number of areas, including: Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Blogs are the New Journalism O'Reilly and Associates: Blogs are the new journalism and "this blogging thing" is starting to look interesting. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Understanding Copyright Law Is The Hard Part In the past two weeks I've posted two commentaries about copyright - copyright myths and the inadequacies of copyright laws. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-09 Blogging a Replacement For Journalism and PR? Recovering PR pro Shel Israel and my good friend, Microsoft super-blogger Robert Scoble, are co-writing a book via blog called The Red Couch. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 New BlogJet Version Released BlogJet is a very good offline editing application for your blog. I've been using it for some months (I reviewed it in comparison with ecto for Windows, which I also use, in September). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 More Details of Kraft's Google AdWords Snafu Yesterday, Danny Sullivan pointed to a story that highlighted a recent complaint Kraft had with its AdWords ads showing up on a white supremacy web site. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 Snide Remarks About Microsoft Anti-Spyware Foray Microsoft's recent entry into the anti-spyware business has sparked a number of interesting (and often sarcastic) responses by the media, competitors and others. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 Donations Pouring In For Tsunami Relief News about fundraising efforts for victims of the the tsunami disaster tends to be focused on what's happening in countries like the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, the EU as a whole, etc. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 Microsoft Ramping Up Search Engine Use Oshoma Momoh, General Manager of the MSN Search Program has announced that MSN will be directing more of its search traffic through their beta engine. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 Using mod_rewrite against stupid comment spam bots... You'd think the comment spammers would be a bit smarter, but apparently not. Over 80% of all attempted spam hits on my site provide no HTTP Referer data. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-08 Blu-Ray Versus HD-DVD - Beta/VHS Revisited? This year's Consumer Electronics Show has been filled with a number of highlights. However, the battle for High Definition DVD recording may just be taking center-stage.s Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Blog Ads On Rough Times? I Don't Think So! MediaPost ran a story about one blogger [Evan Coyne Maloney] who's having a difficult time getting ads he feels are "meant for his conservative audience" ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Google Changes Stance on Affiliates in AdWords After much speculation, Google has announced that they will be changing their Affiliate Policy for AdWords. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Kraft's Google Ads Shown on White Supremacist Site Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch points to a story about Kraft's AdWords ads showing up on a web site promoting white supremacy. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 eBay And Others Begin Recycling Program In an effort to stem what's being referred to as e-waste, a coalition formed by eBay is looking to improve disposal options for obsolete computers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Can Wikimedia Revolutionize Journalism with Open Source News? Can Wikinews revolutionize journalism the way Wikipedia did encyclopedias ... CNET interviews Wikimedia co-founder Jimmy Wales to find out. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Microsoft Aiming At Spyware A beta version of Microsoft's new anti-spyware tool has been released, signaling the company's official attack on the malicious web-based programs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Tap Into the Flickrgeist Consumers are replacing Consumer Reports. We are increasingly turning to blogs and other forms of consumer generated media to gather the information we need to make informed purchasing decisions. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 DoubleClick Rebounds in Fourth Quarter The Fool asks an interesting question, is DoubleClick still for sale? A few months ago, the company lowered earning guidance for Q4 and hooked up with investment firm Lazard Freres & Co to explore a sale. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Gearing up for the New Communications Forum 2005 Planning proceeds apace for New Communications Forum 2005, the twin conferences taking place in the US and France, the first of which is scheduled for 26-27 January in Napa, California. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 There Must Be a Better Way To Deal With Comment Spam During the past week, I've had a trickle of comment spam on my blog. Nothing that I'm overly concerned with (not yet, anyway) ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Internet Telephones Are Aiding Consultants Adopting new technology can be challenging for any company. Small and mid-size business owners in particular often do not have the resources or support to move ahead with new business tools. This hesitancy, unfortunately, often puts them at a competitive disadvantage or holds them back from fully realizing their dreams of success. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Had A Good Night's Sleep At The PR Dept...? Say you buy a Motorala A1000. If you're like most people you tell your friends what you think. If you're an ordinary blogger you maybe mention it, or even write a review. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Potential Flaws Identified For Mozilla, Firefox Mozilla, direct challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, is experiencing something familiar to IE: potential security vulnerabilities. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Link Reform To The Rescue Okay, I can't wait any longer. I've had this in the works for a couple months and now that Andy started a similar thread I am forced to release my findings. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Collective Blogging More Suited For Vortals Than Portals Breaking News Blog could be a good idea. It is "a collective of bloggers who each focus on a niche news topic". You can read a bit more about it at ProBlogger and public (mind). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Gates Gives Blog Interview I believe this is a first. Bill Gates gave his first blog interview - to Gizmodo. Huge score for Nick Denton and company. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 China's Search Engine Market Expects Strong Growth China is expecting strong growth in its search engine industry. Yahoo News: "The market is expected to growth at an annual speed of 60 per cent-70 per cent to hit 2.6 billion yuan by 2006." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Linux Users Get Opera 8 Yesterday, Linux users were greeted with another browser to benchmark. Opera released version 8, available to the Linux platform in beta format. However, a lacking feature has left Linux users "speechless". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-07 Image Processing Search Engine Not Far Off According to Wired, it may not be too much longer before your next image search turns up more accurate results. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Blogs As Project Management Tools Cutting Through - A live case study: "Blogs aren't just for marketing - there are many areas of the business where they can help improve information flow ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Skype To Introduce Voicemail Skype, the company behind the flourishing internet telephony network, has begun to experiment with a voicemail service ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Confirmed: Six Apart acquires Live Journal As I said in my article yesterday, things are moving fast in the business of blogs. Strong rumours yesterday, confirmation today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 I'm with Tim on Podcasting I was reading Tim Bray's take on Podcasting a few minutes ago and realized that he's done a good job of saying what I've been trying to figure out how to say for a while now. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Has Anyone Heard of Microsoft Moonshot? Brian Morrissey, over at DM News, digs a little deeper into why Microsoft is hiring PPC experts. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Tsunami May Have A Profound Effect On Blogs A very good analysis in the Guardian newsblog on the role blogs have played in the Asia tsunami disaster and the long-term catalyzing effect this will have on the significance of blogs in the future ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 iTunes Customer Wants a Bite of Apple Thomas Slattery of California has filed a lawsuit against Apple claiming that it is not fair that he has to use an iPod to listen to iTunes songs. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Role Reversal: Blogs Start Advertising In an interesting twist today, MarketingVox [an online blog covering the advertising and media buying industry] rand an ad in the eMarketer newsletter. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Bill Gates Has Eventful Presentation At CES At the Consumer Electronics Show, an event where the big technology companies show off their upcoming wares, Bill Gates was there to deliver the first keynote speech and highlight future Microsoft products. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Microsoft has Eyes for Sony Microsoft has expressed interest in a partnership with Sony to compete with Apple in the online music industry. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Hitachi's Five Hundred Gigs Hitachi plans to pitch its Deskstar 7K500 hard drive to digital video recorder makers who crave larger amounts of video storage. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Sony Developing TV-To-PC Software Consumer electronic giant Sony has announced their plans to release software that would allow television broadcasts played at home to be accessed by notebook computers, via the web. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Webinar: Lobbying For Your Search Marketing Budget Mark your calendars for January 13th. That's the date that KeywordRanking will be sponsoring a FREE webinar presented by Search Engine Watch's Chris Sherman. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Bill Gates Quizzed on Blogging In a wide ranging interview with CNET News.com, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates answered a couple of questions about blogging. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Holy Saturn, GM Exec Bob Lutz is Blogging! Holy Saturn, Batman. GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is blogging over at GM's new FastLane Blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 New Wireless Kodak Camera Is Email Capable The hits from CES keep on coming. With a slew of tech toy announcements upon us stemming from the Consumer Electronics Show, Kodak was not one to stay silent. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Howard Stern Is a Fan of Yahoo Gary points to a transcript of a Howard Stern show, where he talks about search ... Well I never ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Revived Spyware Bill Could Crunch Cookies ClickZ reports on a new anti-spyware bill that, while a good idea in principle, could cause havoc in its current written state. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Blinkx To Be Available For Mac Next week, Blinkx will introduce their acclaimed desktop search utility for the Macintosh environment. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Corporate Governance Fuels Boom For Enterprise Software Vendors Business Week reports on the success of enterprise software vendors and their 'corporate governance programs' to fix internal accounting problems ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Holographic Storage Come True InPhase Technologies has developed a computer storage medium that has the potential to store over a terabyte of data on one disc. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-06 Which Search Engines do Search Engine Employees Use? Some interesting data about which search engines are used by search engine employees. Not surprisingly, a lot of Yahoo and Microsoft employees use Google. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 AOL Partners with Pure Networks AOL and Pure Networks announced a partnership to extend a customized version of Pure Networks' home networking software solution to AOL members. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Playboy To Offer iBod For The iPod With Apple's iPod firmly grasping the non-communication-based, top tech toy mythical ranking, more and more accessories (both electronic and non) are making their way to the market. This is not limited to leather protectors and speakers either. Because of iPod's storage capacity, more and more non-music based applications and accessories have become available. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Update: Six Apart Purchase of Live Journal Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad and publishing platform Movable Type, is about to acquire Live Journal for an undisclosed amount ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 eBay Turns In Its Passport In a humiliating turn of events for Microsoft, eBay announced that it has dumped the Microsoft Passport user authentication system. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 HP's Next Phase of Digital Entertainment HP kicked off the next phase of its digital entertainment push by announcing a set of products and partnerships. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 News 2.0: The Empire Strikes Back Over at Business 2.0 Om Malik sees a new news network rising, powered by individuals ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 10,000 tourists still missing Ten days after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Western governments are still struggling to produce precise figures for their missing citizens, BBC News reported today. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Pioneer To Offer Accessories For iPod, Sirius Electronics giant Pioneer has announced their plans to offer accessories for Apple's iPod and Sirius Satellite Radio. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Samsung: 80 Inches and Growing In May, Samsung announced plans for an 80 inch plasma TV. However, at CES in Las Vegas this week Samsung is displaying a 100 inch plasma model ... easily blowing away the competition. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Inflation Sucker Punches Stocks The year is not getting off to a great start for Wall Street. Inflation from the Federal Reserve has been unsettling to many investors. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Adobe's New and Improved Acrobat Adobe has released the latest version of their famous PDF software, Adobe Acrobat 7.0. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Motorola Will Rock You Motorola is unleashing on society a snowboarding jacket that incorporates the technology of portable music and cell phones. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Anal Retentive Apple Sues to Stop Leaks What happens when you're a company who has thrived practicing anal retentive PR and you now find yourself in an extroverted open media world ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-05 Apple Ships Xsan Apple has begun shipping Xsan, an enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per client and per server. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Fox Teams with DoubleClick DoubleClick has signed the online arm of Fox Broadcasting Company as a DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART Motif client. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Yahoo Teams with AutoTrader.com AutoTrader.com and Yahoo Autos announced a new strategic relationship that makes AutoTrader.com the exclusive provider of used car classifieds on Yahoo Autos. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 The Silent Blogging Believers Deep inside some of America's largest, most well-known companies is an army of hundreds, perhaps thousands of influential blogging believers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Microsoft Will Never Catch Google One reason Microsoft will never catch Google in the search race is because Microsoft isn't a verb. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Google Hiring an Ad Agency? A few months back we reported on rumors that Google might be looking for an ad agency. According to the New York Post, those rumors are gaining ground. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Legal Pitfalls of Employee Blogging Very good article on BBC News Online today on the pros and cons of blogging in the workplace. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Matt Cutts On Google Suggests Today I used the new Google Suggests tool to perform a vanity check on my name. When typing in "Jason Dow" I soon realized that the results ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 GuruNet Dumps Enterprise Search Model, Launches Answers.com After unsuccessfully trying to tout its wares in the enterprise search market, GuruNet is back, this time with a free web-based information source. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 SEM New Year's Resolutions The last time I linked to one of Shari Thurow's articles, it was because I didn't really agree with it. The email I received from Shari, made it clear she was none too pleased. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 IABC webinar on blogging and RSS Not sure when this was first advertised, but I just noticed on the IABC website that IABC is holding a teleseminar (webinar?) ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Google Scandal On 60 Minutes Jason Kottke is reallly hot under the collar after the 60 minutes piece on Google last night. He's upset because 60 minutes used the following quote from John Battelle... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 I Learned About Web Marketing From Gas Stations From time-to-time, our expert staff find the time to write some fantastic articles. We try to suppress this by giving them more work, but they sometimes slip through. ;-) Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 iPod Needs Satellite Radio USA Today reports car electronics manufacturers are rushing to create an adaptor that lets folks listen to their iPods in the car using their car stereo controls. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Online Holiday Spending Up BIG The latest holiday eSpending report indicates that online shoppers in the U.S. spent $23.2 billion during the 2004 holiday season, excluding travel. This is 25 percent above 2003 spending. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Expedia's New Travel Search Technology Expedia has unveiled unique technology that allows, within a single flight search, business travelers to search multiple airports, beyond just airports that are naturally in the same metropolitan area. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Blogs Moving To The Front Pew Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, indicate that, "by the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture". Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 MCI's Private IP Service Grows Significantly MCI's Private IP service tripled its number of customers and network connections in 2004, and expanded its reach into India, China and the Middle East. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 MSN's New Health and Fitness Channel MSN has launched MSN Health & Fitness, an online destination for people looking to improve their well-being with up-to-date and easy-to-access information. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Quick-fire Search Engine Empower Search announced the success of the launch of its new quick-fire search engine service. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 GuruNet Has the Answer GuruNet announced the release of Answers.com, a site-and-software combination providing instant reference answers rather than lists of search engine links. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 MSN Search Staffs-up for PPC Product I received an interesting email. Apparently someone thinks I would make an excellent Account Executive for MSN Search's new paid search product. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Blogs Give Rise to So-Called "Little People" Variety: Blogs have given a megaphone to assistants to stars and execs, personal trainers, script readers and others who before were only anonymous sources in Page Six. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 A Guide To Media Monitoring with RSS Jrhallett at the hyku blog has put together by far the best guide for using RSS to monitor media that I have ever seen. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Steve Rubel Coming to a City Near You During the first half of 2005 I will be out and about evangelizing blogging and/or community marketing at a number of different events. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Google Is A Cool Place To Work, Just Ask Them Apparently, it's getting a bit harder for Google to attract the talent it needs to continue its amazing success ... at least that's the impression I get from this Google blog post ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Top Yahoo Searches of 2004 One of my regular web stops is the Yahoo Search blog. Today they made a post listing the top searches on Yahoo in 2004 ... definately worth a mention in WebProNews. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 US Shutters Military MD's Blog Knight Ridder reports that a U.S. military doctor says the military has forced him to shut down his blog. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Six Apart Buying Live Journal Business 2.0 journalist Om Malik once again uses his personal blog to break a pretty big news story - Six Apart will buy Live Journal merging two major blogging platforms. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Microsoft Enhances Small Business Financial Management Microsoft announced the availability of Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials North America Edition. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-04 Blogs Take on the Mainstream The BBC has an interesting story on blog proliferation - with at least an estimated five million on the web and that number is set to grow. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Dan Gillmor’s New Year, New Role Dan on his new project and walking the talk: As many of you know I'm going to work hard on a project to inspire, enable and create what many have been calling a new kind of journalism. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Google Featured on CBS' 60 Minutes I enjoyed the layman's look under the hood of Google, on 60 minutes. Lots of interesting factoids and inside videos. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Firefox Downloads: 14 million and counting Asa Dotzler, mozilla.org Staff Member/Driver, has posted a graph and write-up of the Firefox web browser download numbers. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck? I'm a not a big fan of Wiki technology, mostly because I find the markup annoying and the random nature of Wiki changes difficult to follow. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 BlogAid pledge to support the Asia disaster UK blogger Andy Budd has come up with an outstanding initiative to focus the support of bloggers in a very tangible way on the Asia earthquake/tsunamis disaster. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Search Engine Generates Funds for Tsunami Relief To generate funds for the Southeast Asian Earthquake/Tsunami relief effort, PPC search engine ReliefSearch.org has launched with all proceeds going toward the cause. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Pew: 27 Percent Read Blogs AP reports that blog readership grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Interchange to Expand Paid-Search Business Interchange has completed the sale of 822,000 shares of its common stock to institutional investors for $18.25 per share in a private placement transaction. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Blogging for Business - an Overview Electronic Business looks at the potential uses of blogs in business - both for knowledge management and PR. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Denial and Television 2.0: The BitTorrent Effect If you're at all interested in copyright, the movie industry, BitTorrent, or Bram Cohen (its creator), I recommend reading The BitTorrent Effect from the January 2005 issue of Wired. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Web To Play Bigger Role In Public Offerings The Wall Street Journal reports that communication among investors, Wall Street stock underwriters and issuers are in for major modernization ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Blog Awards: You Won't Get My Vote There are things in life you notice with constant surprise, that you don't understand all the fuss about. To me all competitions and awards in the realm of marketing, advertising and PR are such things. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Yahoo Users Raise Millions in Donations In the wake of the disaster in South Asia, Yahoo has seen an extraordinary level of generosity from its 325 million users worldwide. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Talking To Consumers + Blog Mining Does talking to consumers plus blog content mining equal a new effective way to conduct market research ... I think so ... Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Microsoft Lawsuit Against Hosting Company Dismissed A federal judge dismissed a long- running suit filed by Microsoft against the Texas- based hosting company. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Napster on Nasdaq Napster is set to begin trading on Nasdaq under its new ticker "NAPS" after opening the exchange in a ceremony at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Verisign Releases Holiday e-commerce Data VeriSign released e-commerce data showing that the 2004 holiday shopping season yielded a total of $8.8 billion in online shopping purchases, a 24 percent increase as compared to the same period last year. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Skweezer and Copyright Infringement A lively discussion is bubbling on Jason Calcanis' blog on the issue of how others use content you have produced where copyright enters into the picture and, in essence, what's right and what's not. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 62% of Internet Asks "What's A Blog?" No surprises below from The Pew Internet and American Life Project. But it is always helpful when a reputable, well-known research firm publishes easy to digest facts and figures. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 AMD’s New Alchemy Overshadowed By Fake Chip Scandal A shop in Taiwan has been shutdown for producing fake AMD processor chips. Investigators discovered that the warehouse falsely labeled an estimated 1 million processors with AMD stickers. News of these fake chips has curbed the hype surrounding AMD's announcement of their new Alchemy processor. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 AOL's Self-Help Program America Online announced the launch of the AOL Coaches program powered by Better Life Media, featuring a series of top-selling authors. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Intel CEO to Speak at Consumer Electronics Show Around the globe, millions of consumers are living their own "personal digital lifestyles." Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Google Removes Trojan Spyware Ads Interesting development. It looks like some hackers have been using Google AdWords to send spyware to the computers of those who click on certain ads. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 CGI Holding Continues Internet Marketing Acquisitions I broke my Christmas blog silence to post the press release announcing our letter of intent with Proceed Interactive (formerly Meandaur). Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Search is Critical to Microsoft According to Seattle PI, Microsoft needs its newly launched search products to be a success. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Netflix Fourth Quarter Earnings Webcast Netflix will host a webcast to discuss its fourth quarter 2004 financial results and business outlook on Monday, January 24, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 eBay Gets New Senior Vice President and CTO eBay announced that Chris Corrado has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Corporate Chief Technology Officer. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-03 Blogs Can Help Keep the Awareness Alive This morning, I was reading Evelyn Rodriguez' latest posts in Crossroads Dispatches following her safe return home. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-02 Back to Copernic Desktop Search For the past couple of weeks, I've been using the new MSN Toolbar Suite of search tools since it was released. Directory: > News > eBusiness News Date: 2005-01-02 Advertisement TOP NEWS WebProBlog The official blog of WebProNews. 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