A Layman’s Primer on AJAX
For all of those who have heard about this cool new Web 2.0 technology called AJAX but have no idea what it is or what it means for the average user, the CNET did a decent write-up.
PayPal Joins Micropayment Parade Robin Good: “PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music.” White Paper on Micropayments PaidContent points to a white paper…
I’m at DEMOfall 05 today and tomorrow. Some of what I post about it will be slightly off-topic for this blog, but becoming better aware of emerging technologies and companies undoubtedly helps many of my readers (and certainly influences my own efforts at innovation), so I’m going to share anyway. The basic concept of the…
Stephen Baker over at Business Week’s Blogspotting reports: Look for Yahoo! to unveil a response to Google’s blog search early next week. This from Bradley Horowitz, director of tech development in the company’s search group. He wouldn’t provide details in advance. It will be interesting to see how the two products compare — will Yahoo…
Hey, it’s my blog so first I get to tell a story, then you get the good news at the end of this post. Of course, if you’re lazy, you can just ignore my explanation, but I promise to keep it (somewhat) interesting. Ever since shortly after I founded CustomScoop back in 2000, we have…
Last week I had the good fortune to be able to present a talk on effective writing for social media at a half day writing workshop led by my friend Don Bates, a professor at George Washington University and a long-time PR practitioner who frequently teaches people how to write more gooder 🙂
One of the things I plan to do with InterAdvocacy is to show different techniques being employed by groups in their online advocacy efforts. Needless to say, I won’t agree with all of the groups or even techniques I feature, but these are ideas that seem worth sharing. Today, MoveOn.org‘s contribution page drew my attention. …