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Fortune.com has an extensive article on the slippery slope effect of relying on the “viral” linking aspect of blogs to promote products, as well as highlighting recent examples of the enormous impact of bloggers’ responses to instances of what they perceive as corporate misdeeds and the marketing of faulty products. Related article from the New …
Features include [See this link for more details]: Three search toolbars make searching quicker and easier Desktop Search finds things on your computer, fast Automatic form fill manages personal information and passwords Pop-up Blocker prevents bothersome advertisements Highlight helps skim through result pages Related Articles: Microsoft Launches Desktop Search, Microsoft Enters Desktop Search Fray, and …
Thanks to Paige, who alerted me to this article with details about Microsoft’s FlexWiki, a free, “experimental collaboration tool, based on WikiWiki. See also SourceForge.net’s Project: FlexWiki: Summary, and Enter the World of the “Wiki”
“EDUCAUSE has created a listserv for institutions to share experiences and advice about the impending Microsoft release of Service Pack 2 (SP2). Support and help desk staff, security officers, and others will be prime beneficiaries. You can subscribe to the listserv and access archives online.” Related resources from Microsoft: Windows XP Service, Pack 2 Resources …
The Four-Letter Word That Can Get People Excited About Your Products: “What do George Bush and John Kerry, IBM, and thousands of small businesses have in common? They all use a Web logor “blog” for shortto reach potential customers and get them interested in their products. But not all do so with equal success.”
Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use. Democratic campaign party websites are using open source apps, and the Republicans are using Microsoft. See also Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, (56 pages, PDF), a study by GW’s Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet.
From the Public Patent Foundation press release: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an Order granting the Public Patent Foundation’s Request for Reexamination of Microsoft’s patent on the FAT file system, which Microsoft concedes is “the ubiquitous format used for interchange of media between computers, and, since the advent of inexpensive, removable …
The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is now providing 22 RSS feeds for its developer centers. [therssweblog]
When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It’s Time to Bring In the Detectives.
Microsoft to launch new search tool. According to CBS MarketWatch, the new application will be launched as a beta, and “allow users to search for files and information across their PCs, in e-mails, on the Internet and from other sources.” See also Google Readies Launch of New Desktop Search Tool.
An article is today’s New York Times describes the new, apparently free, search engine tool, code named “Puffin,” that Google is preparing to introduce for use in locating files and text on your PC.
The Commission of the European Communities decision, April 21, 2004, is 302 pages, pdf.
