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- Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone
- Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Are you Twittering?
- Ive been using Twitter for a while now and must admit that it has stuck in a way many social tools have failed to for me. Part of the reason, I suspect, is that its very low effort. But more to the point, many of by online buddies are using...
- Tags: Blogs, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Defending the press release
- Steve Rubel, senior vice president at Edelman, “the largest independent global PR firm,” aka MicroPersuasion, is spared Nicholas Carr’s verbal thrashing the likes of which “instant journalist” Andy Abramson withstood last week (see “Instant journalism: Who needs grammar?”). Bummer. I found Carr’s linguistic acrobatics in defense of linguistics quite entertaining....
- Tags: Media, Advertising, Blogs, Brands, Marketing, Edelman, Rubel, public relations
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Edelman blogs: Exclusive country clubs?
- In “Golden age of PR?” and “Does Edelman need a PR rep,” I note how Edelman’s public blog faces are at risk of becoming two-faced:As all good public relations tradesmen, Edelman President & CEO, Richard Edelman, and Edelman blogger extraordinaire, Steve Rubel, are known for their loquacious and piquant prose....
- Tags: blog, Edelman, Rubel
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
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- FriendFeed is not a killer, says co-founder
- FriendFeed is not a killer, says co-founderYou're Right: FriendFeed & Twitter Are DifferentInsightful, clarifying post. FF & Twitter are different concepts. I think the comparisons have to do with the fact that both services have a lot more under the hood than what meets the eye at first.But Steve Rubel...
- Tags: Twitter, FriendFeed
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Analytics in rich Internet applications and measuring success
- Via InsideRIA I found a blog post by Robert Hoekman Jr talking about some of the common myths of analytics today. It's a pretty good look at what people really want to accomplish when it comes to "success" on the web. If you're a news site then page views is...
- Tags: Advertisement, Analytics, Rich Internet Application, Site, Financial Planning, Finance, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- News to know: Ubuntu; Microsoft's Albany; Google; Safari flap
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First look: Hardy Heron Beta. Gallery: Installation. Screen shots: OS tour Mary Jo Foley: ‘Albany': New Microsoft ‘home office' in the works? Michael Krigsman: Is IT becoming extinct? Garett Rogers: New Google Mobile feature...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., CEO, MSM, Internet, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Wireless LANs, Operating Systems, Wireless, Open Source, Software, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, GNOME, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Acer Inc., Channel Management, Virtualization, Internet, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...
- Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Report: 16GB iPhone to be announced tomorrow at Macworld
- According to a posting on Wikipedia, and believed by usually High-Gain B.S. Antenna'd Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion, one Mr. Steve Jobs will announce a new 16GB, $499 iPhone tomorrow at Macworld. Steve may be believing this, but others are infinitely less sure....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Address Book, Update, Twitter, Macworld, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Google Docs mobile now available?
- About a week ago, there was an interesting discussion going on in the Blogoscoped forums about what appears to be a mobile version of Google Docs. Today, Steve Rubel noticed that when he goes to Google Docs on his iPhone, there is a link at the bottom that pointed...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Productivity, Marketing, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Lawgarithms Links for 8/20/07
- Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:California court invalidates Alienware arbitration provision in online terms and conditions, from Internet Cases by Evan Brown"Among other things,...
- Tags: Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Google News to allow source comments
- Are you a subject or a participant in a news story that has a beef? Perhaps you were misquoted. Perhaps the reporter was clueless. Perhaps you just wanted to add more context. Well Google News has a deal for you. Google is taking its Google News experiment and adding personal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google News, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Social networks could reveal journalist sources
- Journalists rely heavily on their contacts to tip them off about news stories. Those contacts take a lot of time to make, and are based on trust, trust that the contacts won't get into trouble.With social networks such as LinkedIn and FaceBook, a journalist's contacts could be easily checked. What...
- Tags: New Rules, Media/Blogging, Culture
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Gmail now renders PPT
- Gmail is now rendering PowerPoint slide decks as a playable slide show. I've found a few files it's choked on (seems to be graphic density but that's very unscientific data so YMMV). It's very fast and quite useful when it works. I get a lot of PPT files and this...
- Tags: Google, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?
- Om Malik sends out cease and desist warnings. Dont Giga anything if you know whats good for you. "Steve Jobs is my hero, and the other night, when I was thinking about Steve, I thought, yes, I should sue too... Steve is an incredibly inspiration," said Mr Malik. Dave Winer...
- Tags: Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Google adds themes to personal home page
- Caught this via Steve Rubel this morning. Google has added a theme engine to their Personalized Home Page offering that allows you to skin the page. I dont recall Google ever making it possible to move away from their standard white space look in any of their...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- My Yahoo: Isn't the goal to go beyond geeks?
- Steve Rubel asks whether "anyone among the tech influential spend any significant time on Yahoo anymore?" And then talks about how My Yahoo abandons the geeks. Isnt that the point? Yahoo wants growth. There arent enough geeks to fuel that growth. Perhaps catering to...
- Tags: Yahoo, General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Podtech.net is a dark horse of Silicon Valley's new media pack
- I recently popped in on John Furrier and team over at Podtech.net, in their new HQ on Page Mill Road, right next to the Wall Street Journals Palo Alto printing plant.Its a perfect contrast of new and old media distribution models. Podtech is very much a media company of these...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-03-03
- Is Gmail your productivity hub?
- In “Google displaces Microsoft, already” last Friday, I put forth the Gmail centric productivity philosophy behind Google Apps Premier edition:Kevin Gough, product manager, Google Enterprise: Really what we did was pick that the email inbox is the hub of a productivity tool and with Google Apps that’s what we’ve focused...
- Tags: Google Apps, Gmail, Search Advertising, Metrics, ROI, Google Software Applications, Enterprise, Google, Search
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
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