New York City was the place to be last night to get a sense of what Microsoft is calling the most signficant product launch in the company’s history. This was the global launch party for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, both of which go on sale to consumers worldwide…
Content summary: New Media Release podcast posted; using citizen journalists to cover mainstream news; Adobe wants to make the PDF file format an international and open standard; cybersquatters taking over abandoned blogs; comparing Google Analytics, Statcounter and FeedBurner; Lee Hopkins reports on YouTube, race hate and crisis communication, Edirol R-09,…
Logging in to Second Life earlier this morning, I noticed in the grid status information that the number of registered users has now passed the three million mark. The growth in numbers of people who are registering an account to use the virtual world is accelerating. In October 2006, the number…
What guides your decisions on whether you link to another blog or website from a post or article you publish on your blog or website? That’s one of the questions arising from Robert Scoble’s rant that his Intel video interviews were largely ignored by gadget sites and mainstream media even…
If there’s one thing Stowe Boyd has achieved through his robust posts during the past week concerning the concept of the social media press release, it’s that of helping focus the discussion. What’s this about? you might ask. Here’s how I sum it up. According to Stowe, PR people don’t…
I’m not a big fan of country music although I do like some songs by some country singers. Iconic songs like Crazy as sung by Patsy Cline and Willie Nelson (who wrote it). Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette. Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry. Stretching the genre…
The government of Sweden plans to open an embassy in Second Life. News from Swedish friend Fredrik Wacka says they’re investigating how to build a 3D copy of the Swedish embassy in Washington. Formal negotiations have started with the architect for the real building and the state authority managing official…
Here’s a nifty add-in for Internet Explorer 7 from Microsoft’s IE RSS team – Feeds Plus: [… Feeds Plus] adds two features to the Windows Feeds experience: aggregation and notification. […] Feeds Plus, running in the background, can combine multiple feeds into a single, river of news-style feed. All the…
