Awakened Voice

A while back I wrote a post asking whether or not Microsoft had missed the proverbial Social Media boat. Since then, Microsoft has acquired Onfolio, previewed a podcatcher and released their beta version of IE7.
It wasn’t until recently that I got a chance to install Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 after I heard many others [...]

Web Pro News is reporting that Microsoft has demonstrated their forthcoming version of an open source podcatcher at Mix ‘06. There’s a very short video clip posted here.
I recently opined that Microsoft may have missed the boat in their lack of involvement with the recent surge of social media. We all know that Microsoft will [...]

A new web based word processing app has been released for public beta. ajaxWrite is an online word processor comparable to Microsoft Word. The app promises to allow users to open all popular document formats and save them to their local computer in PDF, .DOC, or .TXT formats. And because ajaxWrite is web based, the [...]

I see that the CEO of Caribou Coffee has made an announcement via a podcast. The RSS link is http://feeds.feedburner.com/caribou. The talk on the podcast is about Caribou’s strategic relationship with Apple Computer that involves music promotion.
In the podcast, Caribou CEO Michael Coles compares Apple’s battles with Microsoft to Caribou’s competition with an un-named coffee [...]

In my recent analysis of Microsoft’s situation with social media, I failed to mention a key development that took place last week. Microsoft acquired Onfolio. This is definitely a strong move into RSS and improved desktop organization. I’ve been an Onfolio user for quite a while and I’m very happy with it’s data collection and [...]

In tracking social media for the past year I’ve seen many great new developments. In fact, the number of new offerings has been staggering. From podcasting, to blogging tools to RSS and Wikis many folks have grabbed the social media torch and ran with it. One company that hasn’t played a major part in these [...]