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- URL Scraper 1.2.2 (Windows)
- If you have ever built backlinks to a website you know how important it is to find high PR websites that allow do-follow links back to your website. The URL Scraper software helps you find these links. Powerful pre-filter control, granular control over result output fields, sorting and merging complement...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Site, SlowSmart, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- KFC UNThinking at the UN
- Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...
- Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- PR Google Wave: When opportunity meets overkill
- Common Sense and Good MannersJennifer ? just as desktop publishing made it easy to produce really bad newsletters, social media enables lazy or inept PR people to pollute ?In? boxes and social sites. Technology evolves and methods change, but common sense and good manners never go out of style. Peter...
- Tags: Enthusiastic Employee, POM Wonderful, public relations, Google Inc., social media
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- PR + Google Wave: When opportunity meets overkill
- Is this a time when the PR and marketing industries need to police themselves? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Google Inc., Public Relations, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- What's next after SpamWaves, WavePorn?
- No sooner than a week after using Google Wave did I get my first unsolicited Spam Wave. First, there was e-mail spam. Then there was spam forum posts and spam talkbacks. And then spam Twitters. Click on the "Read the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Obviously Wave Etiquette, Public Relations, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Oracle Fusion - a damp squib
- Earlier in the week I speculated that Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle would make a monster announcement about Fusion apps. I was wrong. According to Sam Diaz, it's worse: Ellison spent some time talking about new Fusion applications coming down the pipeline. But first, Ellison said he recognized that companies...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Jim, Revenue Recognition, Team Management, Public Relations, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Financial Services, Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess
- This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...
- Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess
- Over the weekend it emerged that a server crash at Microsoft/Danger had caused significant data loss for Sidekick users on the T-Mobile network. Yesterday T-Mobile released a statement which caused further anger and confusion amongst Sidekick users. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: T-Mobile, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan
- First of allThe Phillies will eat the Dodgers starting pitching for lunch, and any person or computer that can't see that doesn't deserve to be talking about baseball. Also it is worth noting that a computer cannot predict the heart, desire, and most of all patience of a real champion...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, public relations, Phillies, Yankees, World Series, baseball, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Kindle DX international edition: Are the rumors true?
- We heard the news earlier this week about Kindle's new international edition, but rumors of a Kindle DX with global capabilities is still unconfirmed. The rumors are flying though, so we thought you should know what's going on. The Kindle DX was launched...
- Tags: Rumor, Spokesperson, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- How open source defends itself in the PR wars
- Run by the muppets?NominomDoo do do dootnominomdo do do doI think you mean manamanahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynjIoymWHvUI was thinking Nominem was founded by a working mother who wanted to remain anonymous. Mom and them. Or anon and them.
- Tags: public relations, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- How open source defends itself in the PR wars
- I offered snark in reaction to Nominem's attack on BIND as legacy freeware. But it did not take long for the DNS community to offer more by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Domain Names, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- AP Stylebook for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)
- AP Stylebook for iPhone is an essential tool for writers, editors, students, and public relations professionals. It provides fundamental guidelines on spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage and journalistic style, with special sections on reporting business and sports. This app lets you to search listings across all chapters, create your own custom...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Associated Press, Public Relations, Smart Phones, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?
- $150,000. That's how much Amazon has agreed to pay the kid whose Kindle ate his homework. Sure, he's donating the money to charity after paying his legal fees, but really? $150,000? We get it already: Amazon still owns the books we all thought we were buying. ...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Litigation, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Google Docs keeps getting better in Ed
- A reader of my post yesterday on online education suggested that I not teach any of the classes if I open my own "education aggregator" school. His fear? That the only course I could teach would be Google 101. Although I hate to validate his fears, I have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Public Relations, OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Newton engineer returns to his Apple roots
- Apple today re-hired one of its original Newton developers and it may be one of the best sign yet that an Apple tablet actually exists. The New York Times reports that Michael Tchao joined Apple on Monday as vice president of product marketing after an absence of...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Michael Tchao, Tablets, Public Relations, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watch
- helios == hot air for PRJust move on people, M$ does not even expect to sell it.As the name suggests a gassy substance, I expect that M$ tried the 15 minutes worth of fame with it.RE: Helios: Another Microsoft operating system project to watchLinuxGeek:Microsoft didn't TRY to get any PR...
- Tags: Operating systems, Helios d.d., operating system, Microsoft Corp., NT-kernel, Singularity, public relations, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Blogging competitors to death
- I've noticed a trend in which big organizations have their corporate blogger post something really challenging about a competitor. To make sure that analysts, journalists and consultants see this little attack, the company often has their PR firm send out an Email asking the question "Did you see this?" by...
- Tags: Competitor, Public Relations, Blogging, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)
- Not a big surpriseThe EC is a protectionist tool extorting technology and money from the creative genius of the US and other countries outside the EU. If you are successful, you are a target.RE: EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)Well that says it...
- Tags: Intel Chip, Intel Corp., page decision, PR War, public relations
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)
- The European Commission has an answer to Intel's contention that it made a bevy of errors in fining it for anti-competitive behavior against rival AMD: It published all of its evidence. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Intel Corp., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
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