Getting inside of Firefox
06-Jul-06
What the Daily Brief says:
Getting More Out Of RSS
06-Jul-06
What The DailyBrief (Bob) says. Use Firefox, add great extensions and subscribe to RSS feeds and watch your productivity and knowledge increase.
Almost every day I find a completely new way to use RSS feeds that I hadn't seen before. So, with that here are 35 ways you can use RSS feeds today. in most cases, they go beyond news and blogs.
1. Track drunk athletes (RSS) and 34 more
PluggedIn: Online networkers prefer computers to mobile phones - Research/Trends - www.itnews.com.au
PluggedIn: Online networkers prefer computers to mobile phones
By Sinead Carew, Reuters 30 June 2006 09:29 AEST Research/Trends
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless companies hoping to emulate the success of online teen hangout Web sites like MySpace.com on mobile phones are finding it hard to entice teenagers away from their computers.
While young people happily use cellphones to send each other text messages and download ringtones, getting them to send video clips or post bulletins from their phone is proving difficult partly due to small screens and slow data speeds.
A plethora of mobile social network sites, such as Rabble, SMS.AC, Airg.com, Mixxer and JuiceCaster, have cropped up with an aim to cash in on the MySpace trend. Top US mobile phone service providers offer some of these services in the hope of boosting use of their wireless data networks.
The Daily Brief says: Can business create and harness the collaborative wisdom? Collaborative wisdom, it's a cut above the collective wisdom! I believe we used to call these the synergistic effects. Can it be done online? Enterprise 2.0, from Web 2.0 or my terms 21Web and Enterprise Evolved. Article mentions Dabble DB (spreadsheets), Salesforce, Google Spreadsheet, Writely, ThinkFree Office, Jotspot and Zoho Writer. Last four are document sharing enablers online.
The diffusion of knowledge and corporate direction throughout the company and it's various units, regions and locations was the major challenge I saw when active inside. Will these collaborative approaches help? I think so but we need widespread diffusion. We also need to extend them beyond the simple sharing of documents, spreadsheets, calendars to the development and monitoring of the corporate strategic plan, yearly business plan and current targets and goals.
One of the latest entrants in this field is Vancouver-based Dabble DB, which came out of private "beta" mode this week and launched the public version of its service: An interactive database management tool that will spread joy to corporate project managers everywhere.
"This is Web 2.0 for the enterprise," the company's two 20-something co-founders, Andrew Catton and Avi Bryant, said in a recent phone interview. "It is absolutely for businesses, not for the average consumer user. What we've done is take all the principles of Web 2.0 and apply them to the enterprise."
Upstarts spur Dell to polish sales model
Upstarts spur Dell to polish sales model
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The orders keep coming in from around the world at a furious pace. Every two hours, computers at Dell Inc. automatically contact suppliers and order more parts to feed the company's hungry assembly lines.
The orders arrive through numerous channels: by phone, over the Internet or through sales staff in the field who sign contracts with businesses, governments and other organizations.
The world's largest PC manufacturer revealed for the first time last week just how big a force it has become in the e-commerce world since selling its first computer at Dell.com 10 years ago.
Dell's website is generating about $16-billion (U.S.) of sales every 12 months, John Hamlin, senior vice-president of global on-line business, told reporters last week at the company's headquarters in Texas.
That figure is almost twice as much as Amazon.com Inc., one of the world's most popular e-commerce companies, reported last year.
It also represents a healthy 29 per cent of Dell's total revenue of $55.9-billion for the fiscal year ended Feb. 3. And Mr. Hamlin estimates that the website touches as much as 80 per cent of the company's business in some way, as customers click through it for information.
Despite the amount of money Dell.com pulls in, the company has spent the last nine months overhauling the web operation, rolling out a redesign in May and promising further changes this year.
The move comes as the company faces more competition from Hewlett-Packard Co. and China's Lenovo Group Ltd., and as it deals with weakening sales to individual consumers, who account for about 15 per cent of business. For the first time in years, Dell has been growing more slowly than the rest of the PC industry in the United States, its biggest market.
Profit fell 18 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, to $762-million, and revenue grew by a slim 6 per cent to $14.2-billion. However, sales of desktop PCs actually declined by 3 per cent.
Dell executives are looking to website improvements to help the company return to double-digit growth. One of the new things on Dell.com is bigger promotions of actual products. Large images of PCs, servers, flat panel televisions and printers are splashed across the site, replacing discount promotions that used to dominate many of the pages.
Nice Blogging Add On For Firefox
29-Jun-06
JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
What weblog types are supported by JustBlogIt?
Blogger, Drupal, LiveJournal, Movable Type, Radio Userland, TextPattern, TypePad, WordPress, journalspace, b2evolution and BLOG:CMS. Plus you can add any weblog type you want through the Custom... setting.
Which News Readers does JustBlogIt recognize?
Bloglines, Rojo, Radio Userland and Amphetadesk.
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