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I like Best Buy's idea to create Remix , an API for Best Buy product line information and price data. Basically, third parties can now incorporate the data into their own service offerings, extending the reach of Best Buy into new channels and services... Read More
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Thanks to Guy Clapperton for pointing out this great post on the Online Journalism Blog. The consistency with which UK newspapers forbid links to their sites is amazing. I'd guess the in-house lawyers were all out on a libel case when the Internet... Read More
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Here is a new site Metia has built for Microsoft Dynamics which has just gone live. It's a great looking site, the team and - most importantly - the clients are all very happy. It's also - we believe - the first Microsoft website to be built and... Read More
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Another virtual launch event held for Microsoft, here for OCS R2 - that's Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2.0. Joe Wilcox at eWeek's Microsoft Watch published some good feedback about style and tone, some positive, some negative. We... Read More
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Word is that Gartner has now cancelled it's flagship Vegas and Barcelona Symposiums (Symposia?). Similarly, Salesforce.com has cancelled it's Dreamforce event. Not surprisingly big ticket events which incur substantial risk for hosts (venue, hotels, flights... Read More
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If you are taking a holiday in one of the 27 EU states, then the European Environment Agency's Eye on Earth initiative enables you to checkout the water quality of the beaches or inland waterways near to your destination through its Water Watch site... Read More
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Belatedly catching up with the news that apparently its now official - there is no profit in Web 2.0 and social media isn't a licence to print money. Isn't Web 2.0 a bit like rock bands, one or two become superstars, a few can earn a living at... Read More
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A couple of recent articles caught my eye: "Marketing is the new finance" according to Google's chief economist in this AdWeek article . Google has a chief economist? VC tells agencies to get some serious tech creds, article in AdWeek again - creativity... Read More
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Courtesy of an AOL video sharing site, here is a Microsoft UK promotional video - Stay Ahead in Your Own Way - used to promote their recent Virtual Launch Experience (VLE). It's good to see how different parts of Microsoft are promoting the VLE to their... Read More
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Not Google, who launched Google Health Beta on Monday this week. Check it out here . eHealth Insider has a report . Mashable has a review too . Would I trust Google with my records? Sorry, no. Probably not Microsoft either, who have their own approach... Read More
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As Twitter ends a creaky week of sporadic downtime, BusinessWeek has an article on Why Twitter Matters and explores the potential for it to emerge into a 'social media powerhouse'. The piece comes complete with its own Twittered back story too... Read More
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OK so everyone hates the 2.0 attachment, but also everyone knows what we - loosely speaking at least - mean by it. A couple of articles on the subject of enterprise 2.0 caught my eye in the past day or two. Bill Gates took time in his last CIO Summit... Read More
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Steve Rubel recently commented that The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites . He's right but that's not the point of this post. His headline helped me draw together a couple of related thoughts. Namely, that The Future is Interactive, Not Online... Read More
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OK, so that's a deliberately misleading headline. But Steve's post on how to find free Wifi in London via the Londonist's Google Maps based site came hot on the heels of discovering our own client Wifi reaches into the Starbucks branch alongside... Read More
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Google's Social Graph API aims to automatically map the relationships between 'friends'. According to a Blogoscoped report , Google are claiming to crawl publicly available data on social networks or blogs (blogrolls and friend lists) which can then be... Read More
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