TiVo Users Soon Can Search for Ads
Deal With Several Agencies — Will Allow Viewers to Look — For Commercials of Interest — The same device that helps TV viewers skip commercials will now be prodding them to search for ads. — Ti...
An introduction from Steve Rubel, VP, Micro Persuasion Practice at CooperKatz
On October 6, 2005 I issued a call to action on my blog for the PR community to go the distance. Specifically, I believe that as an industry we are way behind where we need to be in our understanding...
Happy 3 year Birthday, Technorati!
Wow, it has been 3 years since the public release of Technorati, which I described in this blog post on November 27,2002. I'm frankly surprised to be doing what I'm doing with such a great team. Nia...
Tags Sort Out Music Mess
Five or six years ago, when I started using my PC to store and play songs in my music library, organization seemed like such a simple thing. Rip a CD or download a track, open my jukebox program and ...
Supreme Court: We'll review eBay's patent case
update The U.S. Supreme Court will review a patent infringement case against eBay, granting the online auctioneer's petition on Monday. — The matter under review is whether to allow MercExchange, th...
The Return of Monetized Eyeballs
By late 2001, anyone hawking a business plan that depended on selling online advertising would have been laughed off Sand Hill Road. After all, the idea that Web traffic could be converted into ad do...
Google vs. the Venture Capitalists
VCs looking to fund startups and flip them to Google (GOOG) are facing an unlikely rival — Google. The Mountain View, Calif., search giant has started buying companies on the cheap, before they even ...
Linux fridge rats on your drinking habits
Improving Open Source popularity — A BLOKE has invented a Linux fridge that will tell you who has been drinking your beer and post it to a web page. — Mike Wakerly has designed his Robotic Kegerat...
Nintendo makes its Wi-Fi move
Darren Smith has waited a long time for Nintendo to go online. He's spent years at the company tinkering with online features, only to see Nintendo sit out the first round of Internet-based gaming wh...
Fall 2005 Tablet PC Buyer's Guide
It is exciting to see that this year we have more Tablet PC choices than ever! There are so many in fact that it can be downright frustrating for the consumer to find the right model to fit his or he...
Competitors Challenge MapQuest
DENVER (AP) - Initially, the great thing about Internet mapping programs was their swiftness and ease for obtaining directions, printing them and driving the course you plotted. — Now those Web maps...
For Some Technology Companies, 'Beta' Becomes a Long-Term Label
Few people would fly on an airline that advertised its planes had untested engines, or swallow a pill from a drug company that admitted the side effects were unknown. Yet when it comes to software, i...
XBOX 360 as distribution model?
In yesterday's Variety, Ben Fritz speculated that internet-enabled game systems such as the spanking-new Xbox 360 and the much-anticipated PS3 could turn out to be the distribution systems of the futu...
Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere?
Web-based commentary sites usually written in a first-person, conversational manner—to connect with customers online and advance corporate communications and marketing goals.
John doesn't want everything to be full-text
Disclaimer, John Roberts works for CNET, which doesn't provide full-text. Today he wrote that he disagrees with me about full-text feeds. — I really try to avoid non-full-text feeds. I deleted man...
Great for Craigslist but Not for Newspapers
The number of users of online classified advertising services increased 80 percent this year, according to a report released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project based on data gathe...
XBox 360 rip-off!
The XBox 360 is nearly upon us (in Europe) and guess what? It's a rip-off! — Why is that? Vendors who took pre-orders estimated the price to be around €410 for the 360 with the hard-drive and extr...
10 Things that make Ubuntu a Neophyte's Distribution
Ubuntu is fast on its way to becoming a peoples OS. I have always wondered what is it that makes people embrace Ubuntu over other Linux distributions. After some pondering, it struck me that the USP...
Parents Weigh When Kids Should Get Gadgets
Debra Scott's daughter had a birthday wish list typical for kids turning 11 these days. She wanted a cell phone, an iPod, a PlayStation 2 and maybe a new laptop. — Likewise, Scott's dilemma was typ...
Response to IVR Industry Comments
The IVR Cheat Sheet has become so popular that IVR companies are forced to respond. I find it hilarious that one provider even buys ads on Google when you simply search for my name "Paul English" and...
Spreading the Word
Corporate evangelists recruit customers who love to create buzz about a product — When Google hired Vint "Father of the Internet" Cerf last September, it gave him the ecclesiastical-sounding title o...
Women in Podcasting: 40 New Shows Listed
Now that I've relaunched the Women in Podcasting list as an OPML outline (which is much, much easier to maintain), I can finally start catching up on my considerable backlog of suggested shows. — I'...
Entrepreneur Launches Web's First Tag Directory to Raise Money for His Wedding
Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. — A 37-year-old Canadian entrepreneur wants to pay for his wedding - and walk away debt-free - by selling listings on his del.icio.us account fo...
BT dials up free mobile phone calls service
BT is to take on leading mobile phone operators such as Vodafone and O2 by enabling customers to make free calls on their mobiles. — The service has been under development at BT for the past 18 mont...
Roland's Sunday Smart Trends #86
Here is my weekly selection of articles that were not mentioned here — except if I missed them. — Advertising Moves to RSS — RSS, the rapidly proliferating process for syndicating web sites, wins ...
Wishyouwerehere.com: Blogs From the Road
READING an online travel blog will perhaps never have the romance of receiving a dog-eared postcard in the mail, but intrepid travelers armed with digital cameras are finding that keeping a blog on th...
About 25 million people have used the internet to sell something
Some 17% of online American adults have used the internet to sell things. That amounts to approximately 25 million Americans. — In addition, internet traffic data show that visits to classified ad ...