Content summary: Neville’s in Germany; WordPress for Dummies review is up; a look at Google’s intranet; Media Monitoring Minute; CustomScoop launching Media Bullseye; the best PR for tech startups; Facebook’s Beacon; a report from Eric Schwartzman; a bad week for IT; a report from Dan York; IABC’s Gold Quill awards;…
I spent an interesting and enjoyable couple of hours at mobile operator 3‘s UK headquarters in Maidenhead last week in the company of a handful of bloggers and some executives from 3. Arranged by Parys Communications, one of 3’s PR agencies, the meeting was an informal get-together to exchange some…
I really am nonplussed about Virgin Media. In October, I jumped over hurdles and through hoops in getting online after my broadband net connectivity disappeared for almost four days. Most of the hurdles and hoops were to do with dealing with Virgin Media’s premium-cost telephone tech support. Truly, an absolute…
One of the most popular platforms for creating and managing a blog is WordPress. From its origins in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on hundreds of thousands of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. A…
One of the frustrating things about some websites, including many blogs, concerns printing. Let’s say you’re on a site reading an article or post and you want to print out a hard copy. It’s common to get a result that runs into pages, more than you actually need, and not…
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Content summary: Geeking out with the Nokia N95 8GB and the Marantz PMD-620; using seesmic for ‘visual twittering’; discussion: measuring social media; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Skype’s brewing PR problem over the withdrawal of SkypeIn 0207 numbers; the no-morals approach to YouTube marketing; Apple rejects conversation about Leopard…
I’ve been hearing more about some people’s unhappiness with Skype over the withdrawal of London 0207 SkypeIn numbers. I’ve not had any email from Skype to say my SkypeIn number is one of those that will be withdrawn. Is it safe to work on the assumption, therefore, that the number…
