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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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- EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites
- During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de, started reporting that parts of the web sites are unreachable due to malware warnings appearing through the EyeWonder interactive digital advertising...
- Tags: Web, EyeWonder, Malware, Web Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routine
- Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?' comedy routineJust like those "technical" articles......coming out on Indian web sites that have copied Microsoft or others articles verbatim except the author is the Indian web site owner. Lots of credibility there....RE: Satyam: PWC's version of the 'Who's On First?'...
- Tags: Indian Web site, Satyam, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?Is this any different than Java?There are positive reasons to have someone hold the patent, mainly, that there is only one captain of the ship. I support open source, but the hitorical problem with it and UNIX has been forking. Some propeller head messes with...
- Tags: .NET, Programming languages, C#, Stallman C#, Stallman, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Blu-ray's Blo-tards bite back
- Blu-ray's Blo-tards bite backI own a BR player and have 3 BR movies ....Only movies worth the extra bucks and that is a very small number will make me think about purchasing a BR movie. For all other, upconverted DVD is good enough.If the BR movies were about the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, HD DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-06-26
- Michael Jackson dies: Twitter's good luck
- Update: title changed to reflect developing news. Michael Jackson has died at aged 50. Yes, yes and yes. The difference between citizen journalism and professional journalism is relatively simple: one isn't paid to report what they see and hear, and the other is trusted and paid accordingly...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Twitter, Michael Jackson, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Death of the Principle of Voluntarism?
- Much of the corporate sustainability and responsibility agenda has been propelled since the '90s by the idea that voluntary action on the part of corporations is more effective than regulation. It has been a celebration of market dynamism over moribund regulation, the latter of which would provide only for the lowest common denominator. At...
- Tags: Initiative, Diamond, Kimberly Process, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Vista Toolbar Icons 2009.5 (Windows)
- Vista Toolbar Icons provide a remarkable collection of stock icons carried out in Vista style. The fine-looking icon set will reshape your interface by giving it a modern and reliable view. You will feel the difference of your new interface right away as it will start looking respectable and shine...
- Tags: Toolbar, Microsoft Windows Vista, Icon, Aha-soft, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-06-25
- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran
- Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...
- Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- WSJ: Jobs had liver transplant two months ago
- A new Wall Street Journal report has just surfaced on the paper's website stating that Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee "about two months ago." He has been on leave since January for "an undisclosed medical condition" and been rumored to return soon. ...
- Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Wall Street Journal, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Will someone pull out the IE life support machine?
- Will someone pull out the IE life support machine?Add-onsFor me, the big plus of Firefox is the add-ons. I simply love Adblock Plus, NoScript and MediaPlayerConnectivity.Firefox isn't very fast anymore, these days. Possibly partly because of my add-ons. I can live with that. Sometimes I use Epiphany as a browser,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
- Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference
- Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...
- Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- 10 ways to raise the credibility of your IT group
- Your IT department can't succeed or contribute value to the organization unless you have the respect and trust of the executive team and your customers. Here are some strategies that will help you build a solid reputation for your IT group.This download is also available as an entry in our...
- Tags: Information Technology, Calvin Sun, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2009-06-17
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'
- Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Ubuntu aims at healing Linux's 'paper cuts'Papercuts? More like deep stab wounds that require major surgery.You can't polish a turd. It still has linux underneath it. The problem is there is no fixing linux. Its inner workings of being a mesh of...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Google could take a lesson from Bing on porn
- Google could take a lesson from Bing on pornMissed it by THAT much...That's great and all, except it gives a false sense of security. If Microsoft's filters of explicit content was perfect, there'd be no reason to block a "domain"... one would just need to use Microsoft's filtering. ...
- Tags: Bing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., domain
- Discussion threads 2009-06-13
- Poll: Is Microsoft's Windows 7 E a stroke of genius?
- Poll: Is Microsoft's Windows 7 E a stroke of genius?I think you need more options.I think it's a brilliant move on Microsoft's part. But I wouldn't be surprised to see the EU reject it. I think they want to force MS to install other browsers (one who's name shall not...
- Tags: Web browsers, MS obviously, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Microsoft Windows 7 E, Microsoft Windows 7, stroke, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
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