Customers to Dell: Give Us Linux!
The troubled computer maker sought input from users, but complying with the most popular online suggestions could worsen its woes. Thousands of computer buyers have weighed in on a site Dell set up Feb. 16 to solicit opinions on everything from product design to marketing to technical support. The resounding response: Give us more software and other features based on open-source code, including the Linux operating system.
Source: Aaron Ricadela, BusinessWeek, February 26, 2007
An Ad Upstart Challenges Google
Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far. But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links that run adjacent to related articles online — both companies are facing a challenge from a tiny but growing adversary named Quigo Technologies, a New York-based ad service that bills itself as an alternative to the giants.
Source: Louise Story, The New York Times, February 26, 2007 (Free registration, permanent link)
Olive Riley has has been declared the world’s oldest bogger, having begun to bog at the ripe old age of 107.
[Note: here is a link to her blog, The Life of Riley.]
Source: The Inquirer, February 26, 2007
Adobe to take Photoshop online
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company’s chief executive said Tuesday.
Source: Mike Ricciuti, CNET News.com, February 28, 2007
Homeland Security offers details on Real ID
Hundreds of millions of Americans will have until 2013 to be outfitted with new digital ID cards, the Bush administration said on Thursday in a long-awaited announcement that reveals details of how the new identification plan will work. The announcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers a five-year extension to the deadline for states to issue the ID cards, and proposes creating the equivalent of a national database that would include details on all 240 million licensed drivers.
Source: Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com, March 1, 2007
Italian minister buys Second Life island
Antonio di Pietro, Italy’s infrastructure minister, announced the purchase of the island last Wednesday, appropriately enough, on his personal blog. “I have decided to open a space for Italy of Values [the party he founded seven years ago] on Internet in Second Life,” he wrote. “For the moment I have bought an island and planted an Italy of Values flag on it. The island will soon be equipped with offices, conference rooms and information points regarding the initiatives of Italy of Values.”
Source: Philip Willan, IDG News Service, March 2, 2007
Google unit signs NBA, BBC, Sundance Channel, and other video sources. Without specifying how many of those deals have been signed since their site was acquired by Google last fall, YouTube officials say they are adding more than 200 mostly small media companies or sites a quarter, according to the New York Times.
Source: Reuters, via Red Herring, March 2, 2007
Comments
@ 00:45
So I go to the Quigo site and see lots of marketing aimed at the Advertiser. And absolutely nothing aimed at the Publisher.
Advertising is a three cornered stool. Advertiser, Agency, Publisher.
So why won’t anyone think of the Publisher?