Archive for January 2nd, 2006
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Microsoft has another security issue. This one is particularly nasty:
This isn’t a vulnerability so much as it is an ill-advised feature that was included by Microsoft in every version of Windows since 1990. Basically, as part of the design, Windows Metafiles were given the ability to run scripts in case of an error. Now someone [...]
Tags: customer-service, microsoft, patch, SP2
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
One of today’s top stories is Yahoo!’s plans to unveil their video strategy at CES this week.
The idea isn’t new. Music videos, Victoria’s Secret fashion shows and the C-SPAN public affairs channel have been available online for years, including on Yahoo.
What’s different now is the convenience. A proliferation of high-speed connections has made downloading [...]
Tags: itunes, MSM, online-media, rss-advertising, rss-technology, television, vidcasting
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just to remind you how popular portable media is and it’s effect on society, here’s the latest from FT.com on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List:
British-born Mr Ive, senior vice-president of design at Apple Computer, the iPod’s Silicon Valley-based maker, was made a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of The British Empire. The honour [...]
Tags: apple, iPod, podcast-services, podcasting, portable-media
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
One of the most important parts of optimizing the processes your business relies upon daily is clear, efficient communication across all process users in the organization. Whether as a part of regular use or during times of reorganization, internal enterprise RSS is a powerful technology to leverage for ensuring that everyone is on the same [...]
Tags: BPM, enterprise-rss, knowledge-management
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
If you truly want to have your internal blog read, you can’t simply set
it up and assume your employees will gravitate towards it. A strategy
must be undertaken to make it a daily must-read. Continued from Part One.Make your internal blog plain but appealing.
Choose no more than 3 colors to accent it.If it’s ugly they won’t [...]
Tags: blog-layout, corporate-RSS, enterprise-rss, internal-blogs
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
As the blogosphere returns to work, the Bloglines database has a meltdown.
Considering that the last few weeks have been slow, as far as blogging goes and that the heaviest blogging/reading day is on Monday, I’m not surprised this happened.
But, it raises the question (again), do bootstrapped startups have the ability to scale? These companies that [...]
Tags: bloglines-down, outtages, typepad, web-2.0
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
A key part of any business’s blogging strategy needs to be answering the "what happens when employees start to blog?" question.
Opera, a small web browser company, has decided that the best way to control what their employees blog about is to simply trust them to do the right thing and be smart.
Their blogging policy is open [...]
Tags: blogging-policies, business-blogging, employee-blogging, external-blogging, internal-blogging
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