Customers Fight Back
This is a really extraordinary story about how average people are empowered through the Web’s ability to connect people. Autoblog has been reporting on problems with Toyota’s big pickup, the Tundra (yeah, Toyota isn’t all green) and problems with sheet metal separation on the tailgate.
Toyota has been fiercely protective of their brand image, specifically [...]
The Blogosphere Reacts to Facebook and Microsoft
In case you hadn’t noticed, Microsoft is acquiring a stake in Facebook…. kind of makes one wonder what unique angle all these blogs are covering.
Mining Sharepoint Gold
NewsGator announced last week our Social Sites product that bolts onto Microsoft’s Sharepoint. I’ve been using this product and think it’s PDC (pretty damn cool) because it leverages something that Sharepoint is really good at, presenting content in a personalized portal frame, with something we do really well, manage RSS content and the social interactions [...]
Can I Be Cool Too?
Apparently not, you have to work for Intel… this from Intel’s recently launched Cool Software website. Also of interest are the most popular tags. That makes a statement.
Technorati Tags: Intel
How Do They Do It?
“I’m quite pleased with the pace of new operating systems every 12 to 18 months for the foreseeable future,” he said. “We’ve put out major releases on the average of one a year, and it’s given us the ability to polish and polish and improve and improve.”
Donchawish Microsoft could roll out [...]
Mashup Camp Ireland
This looks like a good event, John Musser from ProgrammableWeb and Chad Dickerson from Yahoo! will be keynoting. What a good pairing. Check out the MashupCamp site for more details and registration information.
Tags: Mashup Camp
Fly the Unsafe Skies
Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
I feel a lot safer now that NASA isn’t telling me what their survey revealed. A [...]
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StubHub – Where Rockies Fans Need to Go
Check out this screenshot from the Denver Post today, you can’t get much better ad placement than that!
Monday Night Book Giveaway
Okay, so I missed last week (just completely forgot about it) so tonight I’m posting something special as my penance. If you ran a poll about the one book from the last 20 years that was most influential in the software business surely Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm would be in the top 3, if [...]
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