Bringing in a new agency can be fraught with pitfalls, but the most common seems to be the creation of “silos.” Your other agencies can cut out the new guys from key conversations so your social media marketing team can’t properly integrate their work. Read More »
Archive for July 2010
Here’s a seemingly obvious but strangely overlooked mantra for the smart grid: Much like the Internet, in order for the smart grid to work, it will have to be distributed, collaborative and voluntary, says “Father of the Internet,” Vint Cerf. Read More »
T-Mobile wants Apple, Google and other companies offering mobile video and music services over their networks to pay up. René Obermann, CEO of T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom, said in an interview with a German business magazine today that these kinds of services should be “priced differently.” Read More »
The release of Apple’s iPhone 4 upped the ante with the launch of its FaceTime app for mobile video chatting. And while Andoid phones don’t have a competing app yet, that could soon change, as Adobe Flash Platform evangelist Mark Doherty shows in a video demo. Read More »
The media industry may be in upheaval as a result of the web, but having the government step in isn’t the right response, Google has told the Federal Trade Commission. The search company’s comments are a response to the FTC’s proposed policy changes to support journalism Read More »
None of the next-generation technologies are a silver bullet when it comes to helping utilities meet peak demand — when people are using lights, heating and cooling and appliances at the same time — according to a report out from Lux Research this morning. FAIL. Read More »
According to a new report released today by DoNanza, — a search engine that aggregates project postings from online freelance jobs markets — demand for HTML5 skills is soaring, noting a whopping 474 percent increase in demand for HTML5 in Q2 this year. Read More »
Trada, a marketplace for paid search consulting, has a special investor in its new $5.7 million third round of funding: Google. Google Ventures is largely independent from its parent, but this portfolio company strikes awfully close to Google’s core business in search advertising. Read More »
Jive Software has raised a $30-million round of financing from legendary Silicon Valley venture capital funds Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital, which the company says will help it take the concepts of social media and Web 2.0 and integrate them into the enterprise. Read More »
Apple’s excruciatingly boring conference call for the third fiscal quarter has come and gone, but if you didn’t listen, or couldn’t stay awake, here are the top 10 items of interest (to me). Record Mac sales, antennagate and record revenue were some of the highlights. Read More »
Writer Diablo Cody is using her hiatus from the Showtime series United States of Tara to interview her famous friends inside a Gulf Airstream trailer. The first episodes of the web series feature Adam Brody, Chelsea Handler, Jason Bateman and a recurring Robert Pattison doll. Read More »
Research firm iSuppli raised its prediction for the number of iPads that Apple will ship this year from 7.1 million to 12.9 million. The higher number of predicted iPads to ship in 2010 is due to increased production at Apple’s Asian suppliers. Read More »
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