Month: August 2009

The Smashing Book: Pre-Order Now And Save 20% | Events | Smashing Magazine "Although The Smashing Book won’t be published until late September, you can secure your copy today. Now, why would you do that? For one reason, you will get the huge discount: 20% off the regular price. If you pre-order now, you’ll pay […]

What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search) | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com "Until fairly recently, SharePoint was one of those businesses. But now that Microsoft’s SharePoint sales have passed the $1 billion barrier (they were $1.3 billion for fiscal 2009, which ended for Microsoft on June 30), what’s Microsoft’s next big thing? […]

Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » The Featherweight Watchers Program This has to be made up there is no other explanation. (tags: humor stupid darwinadwards) Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) "Perhaps more than any other corporate intranet innovation, social software technologies are exposing the holes in corporate communication and […]

StumbleUpon WebToolbar – Taking a Stand on Twitter's Auto-DM Policy #endautodm | Stay N Alive "I’m getting sick of the auto-dms. Chris Brogan is sick. Sean Percival is sick. Robert Scoble is sick. Jeremiah Owyang is sick. The list goes on and on, and we’re not the only ones. Starting today I’m taking a stand." […]

RSS Subscribers or Twitter Followers: Which Are Worth More? "As it stands, Twitter followers are at a significant disadvantage over RSS subscribers, because the former are less engaged than the latter. This isn’t to say Twitter accounts can’t be highly influential, just that they require a lot more skill on the part of the author […]