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Google is at your service

Most everything Google does is given away, yet it makes a ton of money. That's the open source principle in action. The reason it makes money is that it gives great value for time, and that's what credibility comes down to -- value for time. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Credibility, Dawson, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Credibility in online health care

One reason readers here respond so strongly -- both positively and negatively -- when I mention Google lies in how it finds things for you. (Picture from AlignedStrategy.Com.) The PageRank algorithm, at its heart, is a popularity contest. If all the popular sites point to you then...

Tags: Credibility, Tech, Health Care, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Sales Tools, Branding, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Are sales pitches reality?

Groklaw has unleashed a blogstorm against Novell, based on a sales pitch being used to push clients toward Novell's SUSE Linux and away from Red Hat. (Picture from Repmanblog.) The claim is bogus on its face, and Matt Asay fisks it good. The idea that one Linux...

Tags: Credibility, Novell Inc., Groklaw, Open Source World, Linux, Sales Strategy, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Countering Web Spam With Credibility-Based Link Analysis

This paper introduces the concept of link credibility, identifies the conflation of page quality and links credibility in popular Web link analysis algorithms and discusses how to decouple link credibility from page quality. Their credibility-based link analysis exhibits three distinct features. First, they develop several techniques for semi-automatically assessing link...

Tags: Credibility, Web, Analysis, Channel Management, Engineering, Marketing

White papers 2007-08-15

Small Business Webcast: Sales and Marketing 101: How to Boost Recognition, Improve Credibility, and Develop Customer Trust (Level 100)

The presenter of this webcast runs a New York-based publishing house and is the co-author of the acclaimed book Microsoft Small Business Kit. Her vast knowledge on search engine marketing, direct mail, and brand building will help to discover ways that a user can help boost his company's recognition, improve...

Tags: Credibility, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Recognition, Search, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Sales

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Google goes all-in with an open source cloud

RE: Google goes all-in with an open source cloudGoogle is redifing the marketplace each day with calculated innovation to set the table for their advancement and domination in the future. I can't for the fight that is coming with MS Office next year and Google docs.another nail in M$...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Windows 7 market share, Google Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Paying for what does not work remains popular

We are already there, DanaYou said "But at some point your neighbors, who are paying for your excess, whether in the form of insurance or in the form of taxes, are going to start asking these hard questions"We are already there. I agree with you that many of us...

Tags: Insurance, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, prostate cancer, job

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Niacin best for raising good cholesterol

i'm a pharmacist...and this article is a rubishDO NOT trust this type of cheap propagandaI'm also a pharmacist...agree!The "study" consisted of only 300 or so "patients"...not large enough to be statistically significant. Not only that, it was funded by a competitor to Zetia/Vytorin!Now, I'm not saying niacin...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, cholesterol, Health Care professional, CEC, Costco, pharmacist, Dana, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Asia-Pacific leaders: no final deal in Copenhagen

Here Harry, take this tylenol.You're way too excited.The end of US freedomsWelcome to the new world where you are going tobe taxed and wealth transferred to other countries.2010 Vote them out.2012 Vote him out.Here's some better newshttp://www.climatedepot.com/a/3515/Prominent-Russian-Scientist-We-should-fear-a-deep-temperature-drop--not-catastrophic-global-warmingThanks to solar cycles, there's more to fear from COOLING than warming.Harry is such...

Tags: Government, leader, global warming, rich nation

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

My First Week With DROID

The DroidI am curious-do you feel an application is coming along that will allow you to do to email what the Blackberry is already doing? Perhaps a software upgrade by Google? Having the ability to pull all your email accounts into one app is much better than what...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, E-mail, ROI/TCO, Droid

Discussion threads 2009-11-15

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Linux to your grandma this Christmas

finaly:)RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasEldy is definetly a great piece of software, works on windows and linux and it's absolutely free of charge and ads freelong live the no profit European Associazione Eldy!RE: Linux to your grandma this ChristmasNot a viable option. Grandma already has enough problems trying...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, value-add, Linux, grandma, Eldy

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Microsoft whittles away at Oslo; now plans to fold it into SQL Server

Let's wait for PDC09 firstOk, it's a fact that the Oslo umbrella has little left of the glory it once had. On the other hand, the original plan would never have yielded a stable, full-featured product or a set of products in v1. If the new direction results in shipping...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, OK IT, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?

ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

In Smartphone Wars, Darwinism Triumphs Over Intelligent Design

OT, but what the heck.The remark:"...even the mechanism called Natural Selection referred to in Evolution, bears the mark of underlying intelligence, since the only way such a sophisticated mechanism could be implemented, is via a highly sophisticated and capable intelligence."flies in the face of established creationist beliefs. The creationist...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Handhelds, Smart phones, Intelligent Design, deity, Microsoft Windows Mobile, theory, Smartphone

Discussion threads 2009-11-08

Pre-Copenhagen climate talks end in Barcelona

Who could he be talking about?How about the 57% of people in America who don't buy carbon emissions causing global warming?Looks like the other "vested interests" needs to step up their re-education regime, er, I mean, need to do more "raising awareness."Lies told to control populationOh yeah, look at Al...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Kevin Rudd

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The iPhone is one of the best phones in the world, carriers with it are the problem

far from perfect indeedIt's a great gadget...until it freezes and you have to wait several minutes while you reboot it. That is if you know how to reboot it, the first time is always accompanied with panic because you think the thing went dead. Don't blame the carriers,...

Tags: Smart phones, iPhone Screen, BlackBerry Tour, Apple iPhone, phone, carrier, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype

Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30