Google Gears took two steps today to make a lot of people’s lives less complicated. First, we’ve all been encouraged to skip six keystrokes and just call it "Gears." Second, its work with a certain social network should make MySpace messages much easier to sort through.
Just noticed this post on the Windows Live Messenger Blog:
We here at Windows Live love to create software that makes keeping in touch with your personal community fun and exciting. If you love to chat on Windows Live Messenger, use Windows Live Writer to post to your Windows Live Spaces page and post photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery then we have just the community for you.
“It’s no longer sort of easy for the small guy to have a great idea and just send it out to the public.” Those are the words of Steve Trollinger, a partner at J. Schmid & Assoc. Inc., in an interview with Mike McDonald at the 25th Annual ACCM conference in Orlando. With postal rates on the rise, Steve explains that small-to-medium-sized businesses need to look beyond their “good idea” and focus on developing their website, brand, and PPC campaign. Watch the WebProNews interview for more advice from Steve Trollinger. (more…)
Rok Hrastnik shares his company’s interesting story with Mike McDonald at the 25th Annual ACCM Conference. Studio Moderna began publishing email newsletters about mattresses but quickly found they were losing readers. People got tired of hearing about how their mattresses helped them sleep better, so they decided to go beyond their brand and create content people actually wanted to read. These tactics have apparently worked well since Studio Moderna is now the largest television shopping network in Central and Eastern Europe. Watch the WebProNews video f (more…)
OpenSocial gained a new convert today. AOL is officially joining the initiative to standardize social-networking apps, Google VP of Engineering David Glazer announced today at the Google I/O event. TechCrunch’s Mark Hendrickson liveblogged the entire session, which just ended. From his notes:
AOL joins OpenSocial today. Their suite of products will support the […] (more…)