Reuters Newsblogs tells the “Tru story” of a press release from TextTrust, a web site spell checking company. The release listed the ten most commonly misspelled words on websites (e.g., “independant” instead of the correct “independent”).
Jul 262006
Jul 192006
A few days ago, we published speculative news on tjhe rumored Argo music player from Microsoft. Now, we have additional support for the existence of such a device. In MTV chief confirms Microsoft’s iPod killer, Reuters Newsblogs quote MTV CEO Judy McGrath as saying that she has seen the wee beastie. McGrath’s comments were made at a cable TV trade show.
Jul 192006
The Reuters Newsblog notes in “India bans some blogs” that India is directing ISPs to ban access to specific blog hosts, including the popular blogspot.com.
Jul 122006
When French soccer (football) star Zinedine Zidane ended his playing career in the World Cup final by delivering a powerful headbutt to Italian opponent Marco Materazzi, shocking spectators and viewers around the world. And while Materazzi was quickly back on his feet, Zidane’s ability to market himself as a global brand may have been dealt a more lasting blow.
Jul 112006
In Microsoft’s “Argo” / Xbox wireless portable media player, Engadget publishes a photo of a possible configuration for the long-rumored device. It’s a flat, iPod-like configuration with what appears to be an unusually large screen. The larger screen would be particularly useful for viewing videos, playing games, etc.
Jul 102006
In WebmasterWorld’s BestBBS v4.00 – Now LIVE, founder and head coder Brett Tabke announced that a major software upgrade had been implemented at the web community. BestBBS forum software is written in Perl, and uses a flat file database structure.
Jul 072006
How do you rank the Web’s top brands? What does it even mean to be a leading brand on the Web? The Futurelab 100 Online Brands is one company’s attempt to answer those questions. They have put together a set of quantitative measures, like the number of pages found by Google and Baidu that mention the brand, the number of blog posts naming the brand, inbound links to the brand’s main site, Alexa rank, Google PageRank, and more.
Jul 052006
The Digital Micro-Markets blog at ZDNet.com Corporate marketers to 48 million Internet users: ‘share your stories’ describes how staid corporate marketers are beginning to embrace the Social Web: Continue reading »