Archive for January 20th, 2006

Business Intelligence and Market Happenings

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Hyperion is lauded as the business intelligence leader, but with RSS and ego-searches, is there a need for offline businesss intelligence anymore?
Business intelligence is one area that business customers have consistently spent money on with the goal of giving employees tools to analyze corporate data and make better decisions.
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Sullivan said Hyperion’s size and its status [...]

Apple’s RSS is Flawed

Friday, January 20th, 2006

From Digg:
The Photocasting feature of Apple’s new iPhoto application violates numerous internet standards, dignitaries from the RSS community have pointed out. "It ignores 95% of RSS and Atom and gets most of the remaining 5% wrong," one developer stated.
It’s been a bad week for Apple in the blogosphere. This time their issue is RSS-related.
"Photocasting [...]

Successful Podcast Planning

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Think about your own TV/Radio habits, and tell me, are you an ambient listener?
Jeremiah brings up a good point:
I suspect that many podcast consumers are doing other activities besides listning, as a podcaster, how should you respond?
Write your podcast script or notes to match what your audience is doing. In my experience, they’re intently [...]

Successful Businesses Are Blogging

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Businesses are blogging, and they’re doing it on a global scale. France and the US lead in corporate blogging.
Interesting how Germans pride their privacy and that Spanish, although the second most popular ‘western’ language has so few business bloggers. I’ve been collecting some links of global blogging if you want to learn more.
Is the [...]

No Comments Please!

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Getting an online voice requires opening your company and yourself to criticism and negative comments. The Washington Post said, "Enough!" today to their own blog commentors by pulling the plug on all comments, site-wide.
Like so much this month, the development goes back to Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy [...]