by Andy Brudtkuhl on March 31, 2009
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Need WiFi for Skype on iPhone? Share It From a Mac in < 5 Minutes
For our call this morning, I shared the Internet connection from my Mac to my first-gen iPhone by setting up a WiFi network. It’s drop-dead simple and since I’ve already received a few emails asking how to do this, here are the simple steps on a Mac. I don’t have a PC with me so I can’t detail exactly how to do this in Windows, but it’s not any more difficult on that platform.
tags: getanewbrowser, skype, iphone
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Yahoo Sideline: An Open Source Desktop Twitter Keyword Monitor
Sideline, announced on the Yahoo user interface blog, is a desktop application that displays real-time mentions of specific keywords, brands, or names. It is capable of custom search groups, advanced queries, and refreshes the application with new mentions automatically. How does it do this? It pulls keyword mentions from Twitter, of course!
tags: getanewbrowser, twitter, onlinereputationmanagement, ORM
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on March 30, 2009
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Internet Ad Sales Rose in ’08, but at Slower Pace
Internet advertising rose in 2008, according to a report released Monday, but the growth is starting to flatten.
tags: getanewbrowser, advertising
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Fargo uses social networks to fight floodwaters
Kevin Tobosa checks out a Facebook page after he arrived to help with a dike leak along the flooding Red River Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Fargo, N.D. Tobosa established the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Volunteer Network last week to spread the word for volunteers via Facebook.
tags: getanewbrowser, fargo, hyperlocal, socialmedia
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The Future of Twitter: Social CRM
Twitter has two of the three key features of a CRM system
First, let’s break down why Twitter is going to be a Social CRM, let’s start by analyzing what entails Customer Relationship Management:
tags: getanewbrowser, twitter, crm
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Future of PR: When Agencies Represent Communities –Not Brands
With communities in the driver seat over product, a shift will happen as communities can define the spec of future products and therefore multiple brands will bid for their business. As a result, we should expect the agency model to flip over, where PR agencies start to represent communities of customers –rather than brands.
tags: getanewbrowser, web strategy, community
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Skype Brings Cheap Web Calling to Mobile Phones
Skype, the Internet calling service that has more than 400 million users around the world, is aggressively moving onto mobile phones.
The Luxembourg-based company, a division of eBay, plans to announce on Tuesday that it will make its free software available immediately for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch and, beginning in May, for various BlackBerry phones, made by Research in Motion.
tags: getanewbrowser, skype
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by Andy Brudtkuhl on March 30, 2009
Quickbooks ONLINE doesn’t support Macs – and only supports IE6+ on PC.
Oh nevermind, looks like there is a Firefox Beta!
by Andy Brudtkuhl on March 30, 2009
To get straight to the point – I want a Roku-like box that runs Boxee/Netflix/Amazon OnDemand. I want to buy it for $99 and I will pay $20/mo to use it. I want the ability to use multiple boxes throughout my house on the same subscription plan. The box should also be able to pull content off my network (via NAS devices or from PC/OSX shared folders)
Will someone just build it please? I promise you will make money!
I will post more feature requests at a later date!
by Andy Brudtkuhl on March 30, 2009
Don’t get me wrong – I love Vista. It was a huge upgrade from WinXP. Unfortunately the media has turned it into a monster – which had drastic effect on sale and helped to boost sales of OSX and Apple hardware. The problem is not the software itself – it runs great, fast, and has many killer differentiating features.
The biggest problem on the Vista marketing front was the myriad of versions that they had for sale. In an era where less is more, offering half a dozen different versions of software served only to confuse potential buyers.
Take a lesson from Apple and don’t version your product – as much. While in B-School we were pressed to learn versioning principles and the “Goldilocks” theory of pricing. In consumer software I really don’t think it works (enterprise / SMB market is a different animal). Less is more.
Here’s a tip for Microsoft – which could be huge. Offer two versions of Windows 7 – Lite and Pro. Windows Lite should be a low cost, small footprint version – for $99 – that would run on a Netbook or older hardware. Windows 7 Pro can be the full fledged version at $199.
Both are priced to sell and easily distinguishable from each other. C’mon Microsoft – learn your lesson.
