Just before I launched this blog, I noted that my Technorati ranking had disappeared beyond the solar system as I started from scratch here. As inbound links started coming in as the blog was discovered by people (before I said anything about it), I began to question my trust in…
News that the US Patent Office has granted a patent to a software developer that gives him the rights to charge license fees for any application development that uses AJAX has not been well received by developers and others with an interest in this set of technologies. Scores of blog…
If you’re a TypePad customer and you’re toying with the idea of switching to a different blog platform, Emily Robbins has written a useful comparison of WordPress and TypePad based on her own experience that you might find helpful to your thinking. Emily’s post interested me because I’ve just made…
Alex Ostrovsky is one lucky fellow. He was the purchaser and downloader of the billionth song from Apple’s iTunes online store and has won the Apple promotion which ended yesterday. Drool over his prizes: One 20-inch iMac Ten 60Gb iPods (5 black/5 white) One $10,000 iTunes Music Card Total US…
If you travel a lot (or even a little) on business, it is well worth your time reading the stories of business travel – mostly horror but with some real positive gems and lots of irony – posted by my podcasting co-host Shel Holtz on his excellent Road Weary blog.…
Content summary: New Communications Forum next week; GlaxoSmithKline’s grassroots PR initiative; GM seeks customer input in solving image problem; a report from Dan York; the evolution of the press release; Google launches the Google Page Creator; Neville’s new site launches; listeners’ comments discussion (WELS press release, the origin of ‘synod’,…
“NewComm Forum” One Year Later: A Q&A with Albrycht & McClure Blog Herald doesn’t understand why full-text feeds work David Pogue: Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box eBay Gets Serious About Skype EU proposes technology flagship Google Names Head of Philanthropy Google’s ‘thumbnails’ infringe copyrights L’Oreal eyes…
Yet another new service from Google, this one aimed at anyone who wants to create a web page (not a blog) with the minimum of fuss and absolutely no exposure to anything techie: We’re testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a…
