Archive for March, 2006

Amazon adds more new features

I know I tend to report most of Amazon’s new features, but there’s a reason I pay such close attention to them. When Amazon adds new features, many many e-commerce businesses follow.

This morning I discovered several impressive updates:

RSS Feeds on Wishlists
That’s right, now you can subscribe to your wife’s wishlist via RSS.
Shopping Lists
As Amazon puts [...]

And the backlash begins…

You know you’re doing something big when the parody starts….

Check out the latest social networking site (sorta): isolatr.com

What’s "interesting"?

At SXSW, one of the audience members in one of the panels asked something like:

"If your company has a bunch of people blogging, but they’re not blogging about anything interesting, isn’t it fairly pointless?"

The simple answer: Not in the slightest.

The reality is that we don’t tend to see companies as groups of people, working hard [...]

Agencies and Customer Interaction

Even though I’m currently on the agency side of the fence, I love my client side brotheren. After all, it’s only been a few weeks since I made the transition. And since I still feel the love for you client side folks, I’m going to share a dirty little secret. You ready to peek behind [...]

More SXSW randomness

Continuing my run down of my notes:

Great quote: "Don’t blog what you don’t own" - meaning don’t talk about things that aren’t yours to talk about.
I hear that Dave Winer’s leaving the blogosphere. Can’t say I’m that upset. Maybe it’ll give him time to let his ego deflate a bit.

In [...]

SXSW random thoughts

So I didn’t want to miss quality content during the SXSW sessions, so I was doing it old school - pen and paper, baby!

Here’s a few of my random thoughts from my chocked full notebook. I’ll probably break this into a few posts, so check back for the next couple of days. No particular order [...]

Biz Blog Essentials Final Thoughts

OK, so maybe my last post about the Essentials of Business Blogging came off as a bit harsh. It certainly wasn’t meant to be. I think there was some great content shared, and I got the feeling that most people in the room were happy with what they’d learned.

I still feel like there’s a major [...]

SXSW podcasts and videocasts

Couldn’t make it to SXSW? Check out the podcasts and video footage from the 2006 SXSW Interactive Festival.

According to the SXSW site, they’ve recorded 85+ sessions, and they advise to continue checking the site as they’re continuing to add content.

Be sure to checkout the session with Doc Searls about Cluetrain Revisisted. Excellent session.

Business Blogging - more live blogging

More random thoughts -

Great quote: "Blogs are to cats what the Web is/was to physics documentation"

Sites mentioned:

Inflight HQ
GoogleAlert.com
FeedFire
Feed43

A audience member mentioned that there was thick fear in the room about blogging. Absolutely true.

People are asking a lot about how much ad revenue can be expected, or how to find bloggers to take to the load [...]

Essentials of Business Blogging

So here goes my first quasi-live blogging experience. I’m at the Essentials of Business Blogging seminar, and I have to admit that I thought this was going to be a much different event. I realized last night that this isn’t the Blog Business Summit that I heard such great things about from last year. Yes, [...]