Google’s throwing a wrench into the IE vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera browser dynamic with it’s own offering, Google Chrome. They explain their reasoning behind the project in a very slick comic drawn by “Understanding Comics” creator Scott McCloud, in which they state they’re looking to create a browser for the way people use […]
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Google to release own browser, “Chrome”
Published by September 1st, 2008 in Google, Technology and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsMetallica invites bloggers to listen to new album, won’t let them write about it
Published by June 10th, 2008 in Blogs, Music, PR Disasters, Social Media and Web 2.0. 2 CommentsUsually, when a company invites the media or bloggers to an event to offer an exclusive early look at a product, the goal is to encourage said media or bloggers to write about that product. When Metallica invited bloggers to listen to its upcoming album, reviews inevitably popped up on the Web; reviews which Metallica’s […]
Office survival kit: PortableApps
Published by May 26th, 2008 in PR Practice, Personal Productivity, Technology and Workplace. 0 CommentsYou probably have one or two USB drives floating around. Although these were fairly expensive little gadgets in the recent past, now they’ve become common promotional giveaways and one or two GB drives can be had for less than the cost of a few drinks at the bar.
Most people use these to transfer files […]
On occasion, I have to make a decision that I’ve struggled with my entire life – do I go with my brain, or do I go with my gut?
For most people, the brain is their rational, analytical side. It tells people to be cautious, to take in all of the factors before making a […]
Do we need a new way to “spray thoughts across the web?”
Published by April 16th, 2008 in Blogs, Social Networking, Web 2.0 and Weblogs. 0 CommentsToday Six Apart announced the release of its “Blog It” application for Facebook, which allows you write a post within Facebook and then broadcast it to up to ten different blog and mini-blog services. And the more that I think about it, this just seems a bit like backwards thinking. If we lived in an […]
An opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal alleges that health insurance companies are like a mafia protection racket. It’s quite an accusation - one that’s nearly guaranteed to get a lot of discussion started.
In a perfect world, I’d like to see most people paying for routine health expenses out-of-pocket from a health savings […]
iPhone competitors trump Apple’s features, but it won’t matter
Published by April 2nd, 2008 in Apple and Technology. 0 CommentsSamsung announced a new phone called the “Instinct” at CITA (wireless industry) show going on in Las Vegas. It’s a nice looking device with some impressive features – large, sharp screen, 3G capabilities, haptic feedback (so you can feel when the device registers your touch), built-in GPS and microSD slot, among others. On paper, people […]
If (traditional) media companies saw the writing on the wall…
Published by April 1st, 2008 in Blogs, Mass Media, New Media, Social Media, Web/Internet, Weblogs and Workplace. 0 CommentsImagine if, 25 years ago, a time traveler from the present day appeared to newspaper, television and radio executives to outline the media landscape in 2008. He’d tell them about how the Internet has dramatically increased the number of media outlets and how it’s enabled everyone to opine or present news via text, audio or […]
Pharmaceutical companies have become vilified by the American public and politicians, on par with “big oil” and companies like Wal-Mart. Although they sell products that literally save lives and have enabled humans to live to ripe old ages, they are thought of as the bad guys.
This reputation comes, presumably, because drugs are expensive to […]
Did you delete your MySpace profile today?
Published by January 30th, 2008 in Social Networking, Sports PR, Web 2.0 and Web/Internet. 2 CommentsI’m routinely met with a barrage of e-mails from fake MySpace profiles requesting I add them as friends. These profiles are usually fronts for “camgirl” operations that are - ahem - “less than work safe” - and yet they continue to exist on MySpace. Things that also exist on MySpace: ugly layouts, pages that crash […]
