Yahoo! has puchased some fabulous Web 2.0 companies lately (Flickr, Del.icio.us, OddPost). Unfortunatly, earnings were a penny short of estimates and the great buys just weren’t enough to please Wall St.  From the Internet Stock Blog:
More important, Yahoo’s guidance for Q2 was below the Street’s current consensus: Yahoo guided to net revenue of $1.04-1.1 [...]

One of the best way to get someone’s attention is to comment on their blog.  Likewise, when someone comments on your blog you should give them the courtesy of a reply.
1. On the blog2. By email3. Possibly by visiting their blog
Of course, this assumes you don’t get hundreds of comments a day.  I suppose you [...]

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 the content vital to survival:

Update it often with helpful informationKeep it current for maximum use.  There’s [...]

After Monday’s Technorati story, and the latest gripes, Technorati is feeling the heat of their users:
Randy: I’m asking for zero new features. All I want is the existing features to actually work. Without my results being infested with splogs. Without bogus results from months past. You know, current non-spammy results.
Bloglines as well is weathering a [...]

The ministore, Apple’s new feature-turned PR disaster has been modified to reflect blogosphere concerns.  From BoingBoing:

The MiniStore was switched on by default, without any notice that this service was collecting your information, nor which information was being collected, nor what Apple did with this information.
The new version of the iTunes 6.0.2 installer pops up [...]

Following on from yesterday’s post, here are some more tips for creating a great first impression:

Be gentle: Remember that many of your readers will come to your site from search engines. Don’t assume they know who your company is or what you do. Ease them into getting to know you with your writing and a [...]

Easton has produced another helpful blogging list.  In fact, there’s only one thing I’d add to it.
If you really want to be noticed, cultivate your relationships.  Comment, link, podcast, join groups, just take part in the conversation. 
You’d be surprised how many really well traveled blogs are visited by people who ‘connected’ with the author [...]