Dear Friends,
Thanks for visiting my blog and your overwhelming interaction with my stories during the past year or so. At this stage, I want to share with you that despite my sincere efforts to run this venture, I couldn’t. While the readership to my blog was growing exponentially, it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to survive without any income from it.
However, during this period I have learned a lot on new-media applications including latest web technologies and social media management. Now I’m in the process of selling my skills in this emerging new-media market.
So, henceforth I’ll not be able to write for my blog. But this blog will exist and it carries valuable information spread over a whopping 1,600 posts that I wrote in about a year’s time. You’re welcome to access this information anytime you want.
Similarly, to get existing information, you can visit My Techbox Online and the entertainment blog My Funbox, which too are being suspended, as I’ll not be able to update them.
With this message, I say goodbye to you all with the hope that we’ll meet again somewhere in the cyber space.
The 7-O-7 Tech Shop
Here are the 7 hot tech shop offers in the last 7 days, ended June 21. For home buyers, Hillcrest unveiled its Loop pointer in-air mouse for TV. Nokia came with a flurry of devices including E72, 5530 XpressMusic, 3710 fold targeting mobile consumers while GN Netcom offered its headset, the Jabra BT2080 and Yahoo! goes mobile on iPhone and 100 more devices. More action around mobiles: Singles can try new Match.com mobile dating application on Palm Pre device and AT&T will support auto-authentication for iPhone OS 3.0 users connecting to AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots. Then IBM comes with its new version of Lotus Symphony, a free of charge productivity software suite…More
Surfing Among the Cyber Sharks is a guidebook on Internet safety for parents. The book uses real-life examples, illustrations, and statistics that show the risks and consequences for kids posed by their online activity. CyberPatrol, a leading provider of tools to protect people online, has released it.
This is the essence of IBM’s message with which it wants to hit Microsoft Office software and also promote its own new version of Lotus Symphony, a free of charge productivity software suite.
IBM says it’s offering millions of companies and consumers the chance to save hundreds of dollars on each of their Microsoft Office licenses by providing support for Microsoft Office 2007 with the new version of Lotus Symphony.
NBC Universal (NBCU) and Microsoft today (June 18) announced a deal to use Microsoft’s Admira television media marketplace to plan and sell national and local broadcast and cable television advertising inventory.
VivaKi, the Publicis Groupe operation that encompasses Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia, and Digitas, will be among the first agencies to use Admira to help its clients plan and buy media when Admira rolls out later this year.
This study released today (June 18) by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) coincides with its “Eyes on the Internet” tour kicking off in San Francisco. “The Silent Click: Building Brands Online” study conducted by comScore, assessed 80 big branding campaigns across 200 of the most trafficked sites.
AT&T will support auto-authentication for iPhone OS 3.0 users connecting to AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots. Auto-authentication allows iPhone users to seamlessly switch from AT&T’s 3G network to an AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spot without being prompted.
A Deloitte survey of companies sponsoring online communities indicates that enterprises have begun to effectively use social media tools and online communities to engage with customers and employees for brand discussions, idea generation, and product discovery. However, the survey also indicates that while these online initiatives are having a positive impact, enterprises have not yet harnessed the true potential of these communities.
Here are a few corporate cases that will shed light on the growing importance of social media management.
Nissan’s social media plan to promote its new Nissan 370Z sports car
Verizon’s online community for its buyers
Ericsson’s Pixl8r initiative and the social media portal
Online community for manufacturers by Microsoft and Infosys
HP’s online consumer support community
As the concept is gaining momentum, My Techbox Online offers its iManager service to help companies realize the benefits of online communities. The service comprises the following components:
• Online community building for brand management, human resource management, customer and business partner relationship management
• Online, interactive marketing and corporate communications
• Blog creation and blog content management for product promotions and messaging
• Analysis and reporting of user-generated content, user experience (UX) management
• Interactive website content creation, web traffic analysis and management
• Content aggregation using mashup web applications
• Micro-blogging for instant messaging among target consumer segments
LG Mobile Phones hosted the third annual LG U.S. National Texting Championship, which concluded Tuesday with 15-year-old Kate Moore from Des Moines, Iowa as the winner. Moore, who sends on average 500 text messages a day, took home the title, along with $50,000 in prize money, after beating out over 250,000 participants nationally.
In May, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Researcher comScore has released its U.S. search engine rankings. While Bing is not yet included in the list, Google Sites led with 65.0% of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.1%), Microsoft Sites (8.0%), Ask Network (3.9%), and AOL (3.1%).
