Earlier this week, I visited the IBC 2004 Exhibition at the RAI Exhibition Center in Amsterdam. Quite an event (see my earlier post for description). In my wanderings around the 11 exhibition halls, I snapped photos here and there of exhibition stands that caught my eye. IBC 2004 Exhibition Photo Album
Month: September 2004
If pets could blog…
Found at Joana Filipa’s personal blog.
Unreliable Blogrolling
Something’s clearly wrong at Blogrolling. Following my post on Friday re my blogroll not appearing on this blog, it’s doing the same again today. Trying to connect to the Blogrolling website just now produces a ‘connection refused’ error message. This is such a shame as it’s a very good service. But I’ve seen increasing numbers […]
Firefox passes 1m downloads
From Spread Firefox: In just under 100 hours, we have smashed through our one million download campaign – with 6 days still to go! This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release. This refers to one million copies of Firefox 1.0 Preview Release downloaded between its release […]
Amazon’s cool A9 search engine
This looks very, very nice – the new A9 search engine from Amazon. Wow! Features galore to customize how it looks and feels and how it searches. It’s closely connected with Amazon, so if you already have an account with Amazon, you can log in and personalize your A9. Description from A9: A9.com is a […]
Challenges and optimism for internal communication
I’m cautiously optimistic about the future of internal communication in Europe following Driving Business Performance Through Employee Engagement, the two-day conference on internal communication I spoke at that took place in Amsterdam on 16 and 17 September. About 80 senior communicators participated from organizations across Europe, from more than 18 countries: from Norway to Italy, […]
How to get your blog noticed: 3-step alt method
Robert Scoble’s post yesterday on How your blog will get discovered provides some helpful tips on what you should do with pinging, Technorati, etc. Then there’s Shelley Powers rejoinder This is Wrong on Oh So Many Levels that provides some extremely sensible advice focusing on content and actual writing. Bloggers, pay no attention to such misguided […]
Net security threats growing fast
More than 30,000 PCs per day are being recruited into secret networks that spread spam and viruses, a study shows. According to a BBC News report today, it’s too early to say whether the Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP will make a positive difference to the numbers of PCs being compromised. The report […]
Difficulty in commenting on Blogger blogs
I find it really irritating that if I want to leave a comment on someone’s blog, and that blog is hosted on Blogger, I’m presented with a log in dialog before I can comment. If I have a Blogger blog, then I log in. If I don’t, I can’t leave a comment, or I have […]
Great communication, Blogrolling – not!
While my Blogrolling blogroll seems to be working ok today (unlike over the weekend – see post), I see from the comments in the breaking news page on their website that there are an increaing number of very unhappy users, especially those who have taken up the paid Blogrolling service. What’s driving the unhappiness seems […]
Brand extension best practice
The creator of one of the world’s most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in the UK today – Kalashnikov vodka. Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov, who invented the AK-47 after being shot by German soldiers during World War II, said he wanted to continue “the good name” of his gun. Reuters | […]
Rescuing relationships for Blogrolling
The frustrations of the past four days for Blogrolling users – me included – look like coming to a positive conclusion. Last night, there finally was a detailed explanation from Blogrolling’s Ross Rader on what happened re the planned migration to a new server – and what went wrong over the weekend and why there […]
Amazon delivers with Star Wars DVD
As always, Amazon.co.uk delivers (pun intended) and exceeds expectations. This morning, I received delivery of the Star Wars DVD box set. That’s great in itself (so no guesses on what I’m going to be spending time on tonight, no matter what!) My expectation was exceeded primarily because the package arrived much earlier than I expected. […]
New Sony blog service?
This is a time when I wish I spoke Japanese. There’s a Japanese-language website called So-net blog with a copyright notice at the bottom saying ‘Sony Communication Network Corporation’ and the only English word you can see in the help page text is ‘blog.’ Is this another consumer blog service Sony is launching in Japan? […]
Have something worth talking about
Seth Godin posted a list of 10 lies to protect the status quo. The one I think is especially spot on is lie #10: Who you know is more important than what you do. This is how Seth expounds #10: When your idea is gaining traction, the easy and obvious and natural thing to do […]
RSS: Orange not blue
Those little orange XML buttons you see on blogs and websites are becoming more prolific. They signify a link to the site’s RSS webfeed. So a quick right-click and it’s easy to add a feed, a new channel, to your RSS reader (I use FeedDemon and it’s dead easy). For some time, I’ve had this […]
The fun new business model
From gapingvoid: The corporate business model of the (very near) future is childishly simple to understand. Nike, Dell and Coca-Cola already use it, and most big companies are gearing up to implement it asap. The company is divided into two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A is much, much smaller than part B. […]
Blogging policies on the horizon
It’s just a matter of time before companies will implement policies or guidelines on blogging by employees. A report in Fortune magazine on 21 September discusses the benefits to companies of employees blogging, citing Sun Microsystems (about 100 employees) and Microsoft (about 1,000 employees) as leaders in this area. The article’s highly positive focus includes a […]
The monolithic monopoly game
Stuart Bruce is seriously unhappy with Royal Mail in the UK. Stuart has started a new business and recounts a sorry tale of dealing with an organization that supposedly provides an essential service to businesses, yet which seems wholly incapable of understanding simple business/service concepts, never mind actually wanting a customer’s business: The Royal Mail […]
Windows XP SP2 CD is everywhere
On a visit to my neighbourhood news store this morning, I noticed that the rack with all the computer magazines is chock full of mags sporting a cover-mounted Windows XP SP2 upgrade CD. What’s interesting about this is that these magazines aren’t just from The Netherlands – in addition, there are mags from Germany, France, […]