How to Choose a Content Mill
I read the Freelance Writing Jobs blogs every day. They get sent to my reader, so I don’t have to navigate the ever-growing list of blogs in the FWJ community, yet I still get…
Netflix: Make More Customer Magic with Your People and Your Data
By Meri Gruber
I’ve often thought my older relatives should try Netflix. But they don’t have a computer at home and I just didn’t see how it could work for them. They use the library computers in…
Is Groupon Really the Herald of a New Major Trend?
By Jeff Nolan
Groupon is getting a lot of attention for their latest round of funding, which values the company “above $1 billion”. Groupon features a daily deal with a huge discount on a wide range of…
Why is WPP Drumming Up Fear Over Facebook Ads?
By Tom Foremski
Tim Bradshaw at FT.com reports (sub. required) that Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world’s largest marketing and communications group, has doubts about mixing advertising with social networks, such as Facebook. Sir Martin…
Cisco Completes Tandberg Deal
By John Furrier
Cisco announces the completion of the Tandberg deal. I’m adding the entire press release. Video is hot and Cisco gets to work intergrating this into their overall mix. We hope this doesn’t cause any…
Google Under Siege – Reason: Jealousy – The International Letter To Google Over Privacy
By John Furrier
Privacy officials from 10 countries Monday sent Google a letter demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its products and services. This is another signal around the international tension over Google’s…
Microsoft Launching a New Language; F# is for Multi-Core
When I look at an announcement like the one I saw today at the Register for Microsoft’s new programming language, it makes me realize just how long I’ve been writing and coding for the…
The Found iPhone 4
Gizmodo put out exclusive photos and videos of their iPhone 4 prototype scoop today, and it’s crashing servers, apparently. Not only are their video serving platforms overloaded, but apparently the volume of comments on…
Dear Foursquare: Sell Out Now. To Yahoo. Right Now. Please. [Recursion Error]
This morning, Mike Arrington posted an impassioned plea to Foursquare not to sell out to Yahoo in a post called “Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo”: It is becoming alarmingly apparent…
Datacenter Trends – HP Reorganization Walks The Talk On Convergence
By John Furrier
HP announced some organization changes (thx Larry Dignan). I guess you can say that it’s now the HP “converged datacenter group”. HP is rolling out a HP Networking brand, under it which it will…