A Chronology of Brands that Got Punk’d by Social Media

Aug 17, 2008

Submitted by Scbalazs : A list of companies that were blind-sided by the internet, they didn’t understand the impacts of the power shift to the participants, or how fast information would spread, or were just plain ignorant. (Read More)

PuneTech » How social|median is developed out of Pune

Aug 12, 2008

Submitted by Louisgray : Jason Goldberg is a serial entrepreneur, who founded and headed Jobster, and who is now on to his next startup, social|median, a social news website. In a long article on his blog, he talks about what lessons he learnt from his first startup, and what he is doing differently in social|median as a result. (Read More)

Where T-Shirts, Denim and Tattoos Have Replaced Gray Suits of ‘Mad Men’

Aug 10, 2008

New York Times Those working at Madison Avenue advertising agencies are, not surprisingly, fans of the popular TV show portraying their predecessors. . (Read More)

50 Fastest Growing Niche Social Media Sites and Networks | Internet Service Deals

Jul 31, 2008

Submitted by Scbalazs : Everyone knows about social media sites like Digg and Reddit, but the fact is, they are incredibly hard to penetrate, and the traffic they offer is often superficial. For many bloggers, niche sites are a refreshing alternative to these behemoths, offering more targeted links and a much smaller base of competition. Read on t (Read More)

MySpace COO Explains Massive Music Marketing Expansion Plans - Advertising Age - News

Jul 28, 2008

Submitted by Gigglewonk : NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- NewsCorp's MySpace, which was recently eclipsed by Facebook as the world's largest social network, is massively expanding its music services. (Read More)

How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?

Jul 28, 2008

All about Microsoft In March, Microsoft’s External Research Team put out a request for proposal (RFP) for three-year research projects in multicore computing. On July 28, the opening day of its annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft announced how and where it will be spending its grant money.Seven academic research projects will share (Read More)

Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts

Jul 29, 2008

Windows Vista Team Blog Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus.  Today we are excited to share the results with the public. For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago. We interviewed and polled 120 participants in San Francisco, in hopes of (Read More)

Seth Godin’s Top 7 Tips for Becoming a Master Networker | On Money Making.com

Jul 27, 2008

Submitted by Hyperkinesis : Okay, I lied. Seth has never written a book or detailed blog post about how to become a master networker. He’s written volumes on marketing though, and in my opinion, the two aren’t really that different. Networking is about finding people that can help you (the customers), figuring out a way to get their attention (the int (Read More)

Microsoft Services: Windows Is the Hub

Jul 27, 2008

Microsoft Watch News Analysis. Microsoft's chief software architect surely isn't its chief orator. Ray Ozzie's sentence construction makes his speeches great generalizations bereft of real details. . (Read More)

Microsoft Prepping Vista Ad Campaign

Jul 27, 2008

WinInfo A year and a half after it first started selling Windows Vista, Microsoft is prepping a multi-million dollar ad campaign aimed at dispensing lingering doubts about the operating system. The campaign will tackle inaccuracies flaunted by Apple's infamous. (Read More)

Netflix for Vista Media Center (and Xbox 360)

Jul 27, 2008

Windows-Now.com ThereÂ’s no need to wait for Netflix and Microsoft to officially ink an Xbox 360 deal. Yesterday, Lifehacker posted details of a new add-in for Vista Media Center, called vmcNetflix, that brings a plethora of Netflix features into Media Center, and consequently your Xbox 360. ItÂ’s the same concept I wanted to build for Hul (Read More)

Flickr Founder: I Wish Microsoft Would Have Bought Yahoo

Jul 28, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider Stewart Butterfield co-founded Flickr with his wife Caterina Fake, sold it to Yahoo in 2005 and left the company this summer. He's happy to be gone, and he'll tell you about it if you ask. ZDNet did:"I felt like the biggest problem while I was there [was that] that management was oriented a little bit too much towards the q (Read More)

The Talk About Rules for Social Following Is Getting Out of Hand

Jul 21, 2008

louisgray.com As the world of online "friends" is getting increasingly blurred, and many of us are joining social network after social network, expanding our realm of friends to mean much more than just those we know in real life, artificial rules of etiquette are being created for when you follow someone or add them as a friend, and whe (Read More)

The clouds are coming

Jul 21, 2008

Gojko Adzic I attended CloudCamp last week in London. CloudCamp was a mini-conference for people interested in cloud computing, and turned out to be quite interesting. Simon Wardley’s presentation on the trends in cloud computing was very interesting, both in terms of content and presentation style. He ran through a bit more tha (Read More)

New York Times rejects McCain essay

Jul 21, 2008

Submitted by Martina Stewart : (CNN) -- The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy. The piece was in response to an op-ed from Sen. Barack Obama that was published in the paper last week. In an e-mail to the McCain campaign, Opinion Page Editor David Shipley said he could not accept the piece as w (Read More)