Dumping customers is the best way of getting noticed!
Seems odd doesn’t it? We almost get into the habit of companies chasing us for our business. We become so accustomed to receiving communications from companies, even if we did once request it and we have not really been looking at it since. I think that it takes a brave marketer to effect a change – however it seemed to have worked.
I received one of the most powerful pieces of personalised...
Using WebEX, in Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu 9.04
We regularly use WebEX within our organisation – and whilst I mostly work under Windows; sometime it would be great to have the other PC on my desk (using Ubuntu 9.04) running the WebEX in the background.
I have always struggled in getting this to work – but now I have a solution.
Firstly you will need to enter:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 sun-java6-plugin
followed by added the following two...
Tips for keeping you and your family safe on Facebook
Facebook has more than 250 million users – with the fastest demographic being over 35 years old. Everyone has on average 120 friends, more than1 billon photos are uploaded to the site every month and more than 1 billion pieces of content are shared every week! Let’s face it if you haven’t heard of Facebook then you’re one of diminishing few.
What is interesting though is the shear amount of...
Are personalised videos still missing a trick?
Whilst on the lookout for new examples of personalised communications I recently came across a few new personalised viral video campaigns. One was for JP Moneybags (http://www.jpmoneybags.com/news.php? rfname=Dave&rlname=baldaro) and another for Home Business Secrets (http://homebusinesssecrets.winweb.com/news.php?rfname=Dave&rlname=Baldaro)
Both campaigns present a good viral video –...
Is Google Chrome a real threat to Microsoft?
The battles between Google and Microsoft – after the last bouts of Google vs. Bing and Chrome vs. IE where next?
Well it seems that Google has just announced Google Chrome OS and it’s there attempt at designing and delivering a lightweight OS aimed at the net-community. In their own words:
“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks....
Twitter slammed as the dumbest dot.com idea
This is an interesting story. On July 03, 2009 the Times Business, Money Cenrtal folks published a list of the 10 dumbest dot.com ideas. Surprisingly Twitter was at the top.
Twitter is anything but ‘dumb’ and it would seem that the Times are basing the ‘dumber than dumb’ on just how much money they have generated. Which again is very short-sighted in my opinion. Since when has the amount of...
Dave is a 30-something year old technologist and professional working and living in the UK. Ever since he first sat down at a computer keyboard back in the early ‘80s he has been hooked on technology – good and proper! Now-a-days he works within the software business with a fast paced organisation evangelising how technology can help save us all time, and make us money! Dave’s wife and 2 kids tend not to share this enthusiasm and believes that he is just playing!
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