Oct 19, 2009

Submitted by Marialachapelle: The Russian leadership, hardly believing its luck, needs no interpreter to understand that when the Obama team clownishly rushes in bearing gifts and "reset" buttons, there is nothing ulterior, diabolical, clever or even serious behind it. It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. (Read More)

Oct 19, 2009

Power Line Early last week, I wrote a post about President Obama called "He Cuts Quite a Figure, Part One." The topic was Obama's jaunts around the world "giving flowery speeches in which he apologizes for America while, in the interest of balance, he suggests that we're not the only nation that has sinned." I focused especially on (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

louisgray-com There are a select few Web 2.0 companies who have suffered such a roller coaster of peaks and valleys the way Technorati has. Once a clear industry leader for blog search, statistics, and individual site "authority", Technorati's influence withered away thanks to an aggressive push by Google into the blog search arena, stat (Read More)

Oct 16, 2009

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Oct 16, 2009

The Guardian Advertising regulator fields claims that hard-hitting Act on CO2 TV ad is misleading and excessively scaryThe advertising regulator has received more than 200 complaints that the government's latest TV campaign on climate change is misleading.The Department of Energy and Climate Change launched the £6m campaign, in which th (Read More)

Oct 15, 2009

Submitted by Marialachapelle: A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Speaking to a friendly group from the Society of Environmental Journalists in a land fit for polar bears (Wisconsin), the former U.S. vice president, Al Gore, tussled with Irish journalist, Phelim McAleer, regarding the inaccuracies cited by a UK panel in his political film, A (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

Submitted by Mogston from blog: We promise to refrain from any cynicism about the survey results we receive. That said the surveys are sometimes misleading, looking for a public relations hit. Hope that isn't too cynical but the results of a Citibank survey about small business use of social media makes us wonder... (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

The Future Buzz At Online Marketing blog, I explained why subscribers are a vital element of your site’s growth strategy.  The reasons listed in that post include:The ~11% of web users who know to use RSS include the users savvy enough to be web publishersYou’ll become a go-to area to link toSubscribers are your “sneezers”A base of well-co (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

Silicon Alley Insider The uber-geeks who run Google don't like to think about the messy world of law and politics. But it can't be avoided. The latest example: A Bear Stearns manager done in by a GMail account he thought was closed.Matthew Tannin may have shut down his account, but Google keeps backups, and the company provided government prosec (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

Submitted by Marialachapelle: President Obama on Friday scolded business groups that have fought his plan to create a new federal agency to oversee mortgages, credit cards and other consumer financial products, casting the debate as a battle between his administration and Wall Street. (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

TechCrunch Ever since StumbleUpon spun itself off from eBay last April, it’s been reinventing itself at a rapid pace. In June, it launched Su.pr, its own URL shortening service, but that was just an interesting new product. Today, it is starting to roll out a major redesign that recasts the service as a social search engine “somewhe (Read More)

Oct 10, 2009

Wise Bread From Wisebread...It's Time to Purchase Like It's 1999. (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Submitted by Marialachapelle: According to a new study, an overwhelming number of homeowners who face foreclosure do not have legal help in protecting their rights. As a result, people are losing their homes who do not need to. (Read More)

Oct 08, 2009

The Inquisitr In the semi-annual CTIA Wireless Industry Survey there were a lot of interesting facts and figures but of them all it has to be the fact that some 740 billion text messages were sent in the first half of 2009 in the United States alone. This works out to 4.1 billion daily SMS messages winging their way around the US each a (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

readwriteweb If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social circles of key influencers a powerful business practice online. A new class of tools intended to s (Read More)

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