Steve Gillmor recently blogged about Twitter as earthshaker, calling it a communications platform that will blow right past everything except platforms that allow it to dominate. I wish he would've limited his post to 140 words (we won't force a blogger to use only 140 characters). ...
In my Best PR Blogs posts of a couple of weeks back, I included the PRWeek blog because it was everything -- fresh, lively, snarky -- that PRWeek the trade rag isn't. One of the main reasons that blog is/was any good were the contributions of former staffer Hamilton Nolan....
As we've mentioned before, the internet often looks ugly when you're trying to view it through your (non-iPhone) mobile phone. But Digital Inspiration via LifeHacker has an awesome hack that will allow you to use your phone to read any site that has an rss feed. Simply point your...
Microsoft Corp.'s official release tomorrow of the Windows Vista operating system, accompanied by Internet Explorer 7, will dramatically accelerate the adoption of RSS technology by consumers, businesses and content providers, according to NewsGator Technologies, the RSS leader. IE 7 is the first version of Microsoft's Web browser with native RSS...
If you can't get your cheap gear fix at , DealHack, or Woot, make sure to check out SlickDeals.net, which ProBargainHunter.com says has just become the most popular bargain site on the web. Part of the reason for that is the incredibly large user community the site has, which digs...
Ever wish you could find out what bloggers, journalists, and everyday folks are saying about your company -- what the "buzz" is? Sure, there are professional services that will track it for you, but why spend money when you can do the job yourself, free of charge? Marketing Pilgrim lists...
The much-ballyhooed set of tools known as Web 2.0 is the source of some controversy, with one camp, including Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, insisting that these products and services are no watershed, they've been around in some form all along, while the other side touts a sea change in how...
Adapting to the continually changing needs of the marketplace requires innovation, and at the moment, that means shifting strategies to operate within a digital framework. HarperCollins seems to be on the right track when it comes to leveraging technology to stay competitive. Samples from 14 new HarperCollins...
Now that you've got an RSS reader (right?), you need to make sure that it doesn't become another email-esque albatross that you check way too often and spend way too much time going through. That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that you need to cut down on the number of feeds...
A lot of the mail we get cluttering up our inboxes is stuff we don't need to reply to, like company-wide memos, daily recipes or jokes, etc. It's not that this stuff is unimportant or spammy though much of it is, it's just that it's hard to figure out what...
Drowning in e-mail, instant messages, RSS feeds, and other electronic communications? Web Worker Daily has a suggestion: limit yourself to once-a-day interaction with all these interruptive forces, thus freeing yourself to do actual work for the rest of the day.Author Leo Babauta offers eight rules for turning this crazy idea...
The reader of this paper will find out what 1,038 B-to-B marketers in software, hardware and technology services industries revealed to MarketingSherpa about what works for lead generation. The paper also includes 11 new data charts and 2007 data on lead nurturing using mobile email, podcasts and RSS; optimizing your...
Or if you don't use one yet, get one now. Really Simple Syndication is a really simple way to manage the articles, blog posts, and web searches that you want to keep up with—without actually having to take the time to go to each site. Web-based Bloglines has treated me...
NEW YORK -- JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, finds that 63 percent of large companies plan to syndicate content via Really Simple Syndication RSS by the end of 2006. According to a new report: "RSS Comes of Age: Budgeting,...
Thanks to everyone who's sent us an e-mail or posted feedback about the new BNET. We've built the site for you, and we always want to know what's working -- and what's not. We've had some great comments in response to our first couple of BNET Intercom posts explaining our...
As a benefit to the millions of Windows users accessing the Windows Marketplace the site recently announced the availability of RSS web news feeds as an ideal way for users to stay updated about new product releases, updates, and the latest technology and product announcements from leading Windows...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- KnowNow, Inc., a market leader in enterprise information management, notification services and RSS content delivery, today announced that it will speak on how applied RSS is solving real business problems at the upcoming Syndicate Conference in New York City, from May 15-17, 2006.