Web entrepreneurs have a difficult choice to make with the release of every new service – should it be offered complimentary to bring in streams of users or should we charge for it with an aim of shortening the road to profitability? Let’s look at the challenges of the freemium model in greater detail and…
Windows 7 hasn’t even hit the Release Candidate test phase, but already analysts at Gartner are advising business users they shouldn’t plan to wait for Service Pack 1 (SP1) to arrive before planning deployments. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2350&tag=nl.e589
Report Highlights Interesting Statistics on Social Media Marketing Author and WebProNews Blog Partner Michael Stelzner, has put together an interesting report based on a survey of 900 marketers. The report looks at the state of social media marketing. Interesting stats from the report include: – 88% indicated they were employing social media for marketing purposes–…
The Windows team is doing its best not to talk specific dates in advance of delivering any of its milestone builds. Then Microsoft goes ahead and posts prematurely a download page for the Windows 7 Release Candidate. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2369&tag=nl.e539
Amazon will join Microsoft as two big cloud computing players not signing on to the Open Cloud Manifesto. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=15341&tag=nl.e589
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Where Social Media Fits Into the SEO Equation We hear a whole lot of talk about social media marketing these days. There is plenty of evidence that there are great benefits to this medium, but there are still many questions about it as well. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/25/where-social-media-fits-into-the-seo-equation
Next month marks the deadlines for support for a handful of older Microsoft Windows and Office products. Microsoft is ending free support for Windows XP Home and Professional, as well as Office 2003 suite, on April 14. It also is retiring Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Here’s a look at what products will be…
CEO fixes unbroken social network Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad…
Microsoft shut the doors on its analytics offering recently. While not too many Web professionals are scurrying around looking for an alternative yet, there are certainly plenty out there. Google Analytics is a fine solution for those looking to gather some insights from the consumer traffic moving through their websites, but with so many other…