Posted on November 1, 2004 10:28 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Most RSS feeds give you headlines for every new entry on a blog. Of course, the use of RSS outside the world of blogs is somewhat more sophisticated. The New York Times and Washington Post feeds don’t deliver every headline. You subscribe for feeds from various sections. Now Engadget has applied the same sense to its blog, allowing users to subscribe to…
Posted on October 28, 2004 8:40 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
This latest example of media convergence (forwarded to me by Bill Scully) is definitely cool. According to a SearchDay article, a new service is providing free nationwide directory assistance via SMS text messaging. Send a text message to 604.877.7627. “The search system attempts to interpret your request intelligently. For example you can search for services, people, products and companies by telephone area…
Posted on October 26, 2004 5:05 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
This was inevitable. Podcasting has been around for all of a few months and already a company has opened its doors to help products podcasts. Pwop Productions produces “audio talk-shows, newscasts, audio newsletters and telephone interviews,” according to its Web site. The company’s CEO produces and hosts .NET Rocks!, a podcast for .NET software developers.
Have any PR agencies begun promoting their ability to…
Posted on October 22, 2004 2:56 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to provide everyone in the city with free WiFi connectivity to the Net. A Reuters story quotes Newsom saying, “We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless Internet service.” The mayor made the remarks during his annual state of the city address.
I’ve reported here that several smaller towns in places like Minnesota…
Posted on October 22, 2004 7:02 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Social networks like LinkedIn and Yelp have great potential in business, but like so many other useful tools on the Net, they could be marginalized by the unscrupulous. The BBC reports that phishers can “attack could mine social networks, such as Orkut, to find out who knows whom and use the names it finds to create fake e-mails that look like they…
Posted on October 21, 2004 4:44 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
I got to my hotel room and, as usual, checked my e-mail first thing. One that caught my eye was from Stata Labs, the startup that makes Bloomba, the fabulous e-mail client I use. “We thank you for your support of Bloomba and SAproxy Pro and want to share some exciting news. As of today, we are now part of the…
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