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The Nokia E61 experience, part 1/2

The Nokia E61 experience, part 1/2No Disrestpct to yuo or your ToyBut I ened up here following a link that clearly said that JFK documentaion was avilable online. Having read althoug not in it's entirety your lovey little story I'm still left wondering what happened to the link I wsa...

Tags: JFK, Regards Aaron, Nokia E61, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-06-13

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Google Chrome and the extension conundrum

Google appears to be on the extension bandwagon for its Chrome browser, but that also opens a Pandora's box. In an extensions document via Stephen Shankland and Aaron Boodman Google outlines its plan to build extensions for Chrome. Extensions are the most requested feature for Chrome. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .

I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Poverty, Bangladesh, Mr., Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Gmail expands to include voice and video

Gmail expands to include voice and videoYou can't blame them for trying.A Question.Exactly, Precisely , What is this Plug??Yet another spy gadget for google?AaronAt the same timeI don't think I will use it. I use Skype for IM and A/V calls. I haven't used Gmail Chat more than...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Corporate communications, Web browsers, Google Gmail, video

Discussion threads 2008-11-12

Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?

Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?M$ agents sabotaged the dealM$ agents infiltrated the DOJ and Wall Street to kill this deal and expand M$ monopolistic and corrupt power.Microsoft wants two things from Yahoo:... search share and content management. A deal which...

Tags: Real estate, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote – Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething — and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Read and recognize - 10 must-know social business bloggers

Read and recognize - 10 must-know social business bloggersThanksI'm blushing like only an Irish kid from Boston can right now. Thanks so much for your kind words, although I will state again that I simply was in the right place at the right time to intro you to all...

Tags: Blogging, social business blogger, business blogger

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

Read and recognize - 10 must-know social business bloggers

I read a lot of blogs. I mean, a lot of blogs. So the other day when David Grober, ZDNet's fearless leader, told us bloggers that we have the option to include a blog roll on our site, my little head started to spin. Who do I choose? ...

Tags: Blog, Social Media, Blogger, Maeve Naughton Maeve, Stuart Robertson Here, Stuart, John Cass John, Blogging, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Countdown - 10 social media lessons learned

Countdown - 10 social media lessons learnedWow!Jennifer. I am honored. You just trumped me in terms of paying tribute to someone. And you're right responding to your Tweet here, I am now 1,800 miles closer to you! One of these days we WILL meet in person. ;)Best,Aaron | @astroutincorrect linkYour...

Tags: Blogging, social media lesson, Countdown, social media

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

Countdown - 10 social media lessons learned

Aaron Strout, best known as the vice president of social media for Mzinga (and soon-to-be head of marketing for Powered), took a creative spin today on Twitter when he counted down to 10,000 tweets with his top 10 social media lessons learned. Here's a quick sample of some of my...

Tags: Social Media, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC

Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...

Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

TechCrunch50: Day 3

Photo by Steve Maller I've been covering TC50 for the past few days, and believe it or not, I'm still hungry for more startup pitches. 6:30 a.m. The final sessions of the conference are posted on BusinessWire: s Akoha...

Tags: Hollywood, YouTube Inc., Video, Photograph, Bojam, Truecar, Playce, Panelist, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-10

Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisition

Microsoft to bolster Live Search in Europe with Greenfield acquisitionReagrding MS Live SearchHas it occurred to Microsoft that a great many people, far more than they imagine absolutely can't stand Live search. Microsoft's foray into the new and improved is a disaster and should be withdrawn, or at the very...

Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, Europe-with Greenfield acquisition

Discussion threads 2008-08-30

Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?

The first computer I ever bought had a whopping six-gigabyte hard drive inside - far more storage capacity than anyone might have ever dreamed of using some ten years ago. Back then, no one was really downloading music or uploading digital photos, let alone streaming video or placing VoIP phone...

Tags: Innovation, Web, Bandwidth, Comcast Corp., Internet, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Social giving for charity begets social giving for community

Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...

Tags: giveaway, social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer

Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer.  From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

MindTouch Deki: Kilen Woods release

Today, MindTouch Deki announces Kilen Woods, its latest and biggest release. In conversation with co-founder Aaron Fulkerson I learned that Deki is rapidly transforming itself from being a smart wiki into what Fulkerson calls the 'connecting tissue' between applications. Others might call it mashup environment, still others a means of...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mashup, Aaron Fulkerson, Management Option, Wiki, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Enterprise communities: build or join?

Determining how a company should engage with or create an online community is a critical process. Aaron Strout, VP of social media for Mzinga authored this primer on what steps enterprises must take while evaluating their community engagement strategies. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Facebook, Community, Network, Social Media, Customer, Site, Social Networking, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-23

McCain's campaign team has no Facebook chops

You have to admire the chutzpah of the idea of convincing voters that they should vote for a candidate through an arcade game rip-off of Space Invaders, because it's simply ludicrous coming from a candidate who has declared he doesn't even know how to "use a computer." Aaron Jacobs-Smith of...

Tags: Facebook, Team, John McCain, McCain, Jacobs-Smith, Games, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-01

ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking group

ICANN and IANA's domains hijacked by Turkish hacking groupWindows is to blameI hear that the Internet is basically run on Windows servers so it is hardly surprising that this happened. If ICANN would only switch to OS X I'm sure that no hacker would ever be able to break in.As...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Domain names, ICANN, IANA, hacking group, Turkish, hacker, hacking, IP, domain

Discussion threads 2008-06-26