ReadWriteWeb
According to a post on the Google Enterprise Blog this morning, there's a new tool for Google Apps users that lets businesses sync the user account information in Google Apps with the business's LDAP user directory system. If you're in I.T., you probably already know what that means, but if not, let me spell it out for you: (Read More)
Mixx: Google
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer paid “lip service” to a Yahoo! deal and cleverly set the stage for acquiring Facebook, during his keynote at the Digital Hollywood Media Summit.Yahoo!’s stock price shot up on the news of his comments, but I think the press and the markets are missing the big picture: Microsoft’s is using the “po (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Google's top designer Doug Bouwman quit the company to join Twitter. Mostly, Doug didn't like how much Google depends on data to make design decisions. He's written a blog post to explain more fully. It's not "sugarcoated," as they say:When I joined Google as its first visual designer, the company was already seven years ol (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear of an industry reporting an increase in spending on anything, much less on something as new as social media. Yet that's exactly what's occurring. According (Read More)
: interesting but not really clear who the survey group was. >250 employees could mean 250-100,000. a $100k budget for a fortune 500 company to spend on social media is nothing.
: "According to a new Forrester Research survey of 145 global interactive marketers in both B2B and B2C companies with more than 250 employees, the use of social media as a marketing tool is on the rise. What's more, Forrester reports that over 50% of marketers said they will be increasing their spending on social media marketing in the coming months."
Submitted by Judithgermain:
The most important thing you can do for your career is networking. I don’t mean social networking - I don’t believe you can build a career just by using LinkedIn. I’m talking old school. Virtually every job and opportunity in my 20-plus year career came as a result of networking. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Much is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive followings will somehow be able to pull in $1 million a year or more in incremental revenue, assu (Read More)