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Newsletter Archive: 2005
Google's Ten Golden Rules
Google gets lots of news coverage as it has grown into the behemoth it is today and has been fighting a corporate image problem. People are starting to compare it with Microsoft in the most unflattering of ways. Google is naturally defending itself and its reputation but, in a recent interview with John Battelle...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/1212.html
12.12.05
How to Achieve Project Management Success
Most project management tools focus on planning projects rather than managing them. Learn more about the QuickBase advantage:

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/1215.html
12.15.05
Will Google Web Analytics Help Lead Generation?
Google (web) Analytics is now free for websites that have less than 5-million page views.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/1121.html
11.21.05
Blogging Enterprise Consensus: RSS Is Plumbing
Here are my notes from a panel on the enterprise use of RSS, from the Blogging Enterprise conference. The main takeaway is that RSS is really going away because it will simply become plumbing like SMTP...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/1107.html
11.07.05
Microsoft Displeased Over 'Fake' XP SP3
A consultant at Microsoft has warned against downloading the patches bundled as an unofficial Windows XP Service Pack 3 package.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/1017.html
10.17.05
Yahoo Playing With Search Results
Toward the end of last week and during the weekend, it appears Yahoo was toying with their search listings. There could be lots of reasons for this but generally, it's in the name of some form of improvement.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0926.html
09.26.05
Google Responds To Authors Guild Lawsuit
As Google Print gets another legal challenge, the search engine responded via the company blog to explain its position. The Authors Guild has filed a lawsuit against Google to try and stop Google Print. The Google Print initiative seeks to scan books into the Google database...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0921.html
09.21.05
Microsoft Fits Eight Firms For Piracy Suits
Microsoft has filed eight lawsuits in five states against firms accused of selling pirated or counterfeit copies of Windows. They heard from consumers about problems with their new software purchases, ones that did not pass the Windows Genuine Advantage check.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0919.html
09.19.05
Microsoft Pitching Lee Settlement To Google
The entertaining saga of the world's most famous job hopper, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, may be coming to a close. Lawsuits have been filed and counter-filed, accusations of bad behavior made, and who knows how many stories written, all over one man's quest to do what millions of other people dream of doing: finding a job they love.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0915.html
09.15.05
Yahoo Sends Kevin Sites To War
The portal company will send the veteran war correspondent on a year-long global journey to every ongoing armed conflict.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0912.html
09.12.05
Ask Jeeves: It’s Not Easy Being Me
The future of Ask Jeeves is still largely up in the air. Though it trails quite far behind its major competitors, the arguably 4th most popular search engine is actively paving its own road through technology, advertising, and widescale integration of complementary services, making it a major player in search, more potential than kinetic at this point, and different.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0908.html
09.08.05
Kai-Fu Lee Asked Google For $10 Million
He told Google that if $10 million was "way out of the ballpark," they had no need to talk about his departing Microsoft. The fun continues as billionaires on both sides of the Microsoft and Google snit sent in their lawyers yesterday to King County Superior Court in Seattle.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0907.html
09.07.05
This Just In: Steve Ballmer Doesn't Like Google
Apparently, when a Microsoft employee leaves Redmond for the Google pastures, the MS management team, or at least on in particular, does not react in a pleasant manner...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0906.html
09.06.05
CBS Tops In Online Broadcasts
The NetView from Nielsen//NetRatings for last week shows online video users had their eye on CBS.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0902.html
09.02.05
Google Claims Lee Case Hurts Talent Recruiting
The search engine's China operations could be impacted for over a year unless the court tosses out Dr. Kai-Fu Lee's noncompete agreement.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0901.html
09.01.05
Gmail Slips Web Clips Into Inbox
A quietly performed update now has a new information bar appearing at the top of the inbox view in Gmail. Google Talk launches, but it requires a Gmail account. Google provides a handy mechanism to get a Gmail invitation code via cellphone in the US...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0831.html
08.31.05
Google Wants Lee Contract Dismissed
The saga of Kai-Fu Lee continues as his new employer seeks summary judgment in federal court. He's a resident of Palo Alto, California, paying California taxes. His picture appears on a California driver's license, he's registered to vote in California, and he's even got phone service in California...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0830.html
08.30.05
Yahoo Will Televise The Revolution
With the help of an open standard called Media RSS, Yahoo makes it easier for small video makers to get noticed. A little speck doesn't get noticed unless it flies into your eye, embedding itself painfully on a contact lens while...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0825.html
08.25.05
Google Backlash Rearing Its Head
This question has been tossed around recently because it seems there are some who are trying to knock the current big dog down a few pegs. There have been a number of articles calling...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0824.html
08.24.05
Viacom To Nick Yahoo Content
Yahoo and Viacom announced a deal where Yahoo search and marketing will appear on Viacom's web properties. Across a crowded Internet, Sumner and Terry's eyes met. Their relationship, blessed by teeming hordes...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0823.html
08.23.05
Lee Says He Never Saw MSN Search Code
The saga of Dr. Kai-Fu Lee continues, as he seeks to escape the clutches of Microsoft by denying he ever had access or made contributions to MSN search technology.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0822.html
08.22.05
Google Testing SERP Changes
Google appears to be in a major retooling effort of their results pages. Just a day after the buzz leapt from search blog to search blog about Google putting 3 sponsored links at the top instead of two, Media Post's Shankar Gupta tells us that may just be the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0819.html
08.19.05
Google Didn't Lose Google Vs. Geico
As far as Judge Brinkema was and is concerned, using trademarked keywords in an ad serving system to trigger relevant, non-deceptive ads is perfectly legal. Google won that case.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0817.html
08.17.05
Kai-Fu Lee: The Miracle Of Google
In a recently translated letter from Dr. Kai-Fu Lee to family and friends, Lee confessed that his move from Microsoft to Google was a matter of following his heart, trading a company he saw as limiting to his contribution to the world for a company that embodies youth and freedom.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0815.html
08.15.05
Filtering Out MSN's Filter
MSN Filter sure is getting some people upset (hi Ross Mayfield). Personally I wanted to give MSN Filter a few weeks before giving my opinion, but Ross goaded me into it.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0812.html
08.12.05
Is Murdoch Foxing His Way Into Search?
The Internet rumor mill is working overtime as forums light up with speculation about Fox Interactive Media's apparent interest in acquiring a search engine among other portals...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0811.html
08.11.05
Big Business Web Design Disasters
When you think of the world's most successful businesses, what names come to mind? Most likely, consumer-oriented giants such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Sheraton, Disney, IBM, and General Electric.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0725.html
07.25.05
The Ten Most Important Elements Of A Corporate Web Site
As we public relations people blithely enter this brave new world of corporate blogging and podcasting, perhaps this would be a good time to re-emphasize some basic ground rules regarding corporate communications and the Internet.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0718.html
07.18.05
Managed Hosting Essentials
Relieve your IT stresses with a full range of extra managed services utilizing tools from industry leading vendors as well as custom developed, proprietary technology.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0706.html
07.06.05
Corporate Responsibility Reporting Enters The Mainstream
International accounting firm KPMG has published the results of its latest survey on corporate responsibility reporting.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0620.html
06.20.05
Managed Hosting Essentials
Now is the time to upgrade your hosting provider. More start-ups to enterprise businesses are choosing Rackspace over any other managed hosting provider. It's easy to see why.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0615.html
06.15.05
Mytob Worm Threat May Be Serious
Security researchers urge users and administrators to update antivirus signature files and verify their systems have been patched. Mytob variants seem to account for more than half of the top twenty reported viruses in the wild today, according to researchers at antivirus software maker Sophos.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0606.html
06.06.05
$25 for 10 minutes of your time
If you would like to see the quality of one of these reports before taking part in a survey, take a look at the summary of our 1st quarter Tech Trends Report. It is called Spending at the Edge: Business Executive Sponsorship Drives Planned Increases in Technology Spending. We hope you enjoy it; we look forward to your participation.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0526.html
05.26.05
Are you thrilled with your hosting provider's support?
Other companies say support is a priority. Rackspace shows it. They are committed to providing the customer with amazing managed hosting services backed by a policy they call Fanatical Support™. 80% of Rackspace's resources go directly to Fanatical Support™.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0518.html
05.18.05
Another Site Caught Gaming Google
Yet another highly regarded site with high PageRank has been caught gaming Google. This time, its Syndic8.com, and once again, Andy Baio is on the case.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0509.html
05.09.05
Now is the time to change hosting providers
Imagine a managed hosting provider that's as concerned with your uptime as you are. Rackspace Managed Hosting offers a low-cost, rapidly-deployable, scalable hosting solution... and these people are absolutely crazy about customer service!

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0420.html
04.20.05
More On Google, Maps, Mail, And Microsoft
He makes the point that several others did in response to my Hotmail taunt: that the number of users on email systems doesn't matter to him. Ahh, wasabi, but you aren't thinking it through.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0418.html
04.18.05
When A Company Can Do No Right
Normally, Jim Hill's predicament wouldn't raise an eyebrow. But since his adversary is The Walt Disney Company-a business hamstrung by years of negative publicity...

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0407.html
04.07.05
Uncovering The Google Directory
Google users are so used to using the search field to find their pages that they often overlook the Google Directory system. In fact, most don't even know that it exists. You get to it by going to http://directory.google.com/ or searching Google for [google directory] and finding the link to it at the top of the search list. Here's what you get

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0328.html
03.28.05
Managing Hypergrowth
I'm speaking today at a World Financial Symposium event on Growth and Exit Strategies for Software and IT Companies.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0311.html
03.11.05
IBM’s Approach To Enterprise Search
Developing effective search tools for enterprise-level businesses is not the same as developing search for web-based documents. Websites and other web-related documents contain an inherent structure due to the nature of web links.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0228.html
02.28.05
Good Model For A Leadership Blog
The GM FastLane Blog is attracting quite a lot of commentary and opinion, with varying views being expressed on how effective it is as a means of engaging with GM's customers.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0207.html
02.07.05
Web Content Management: Top 10 Predictions For 2005
Web content management will continue its shift away from a technology focus towards a content one. 2005 will be the year when the professional editor will be given more responsibility in running the website.

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0114.html
01.14.05
Tools For Online Tracking
In order to determine which advertising and marketing efforts are effective you must have ways to measure the results of those efforts. Alerts and instant notifications can be instrumental in monitoring search engine position, trademarked terms, monitoring competitors and staying abreast of online occurrences. And, of course, the notification can be used for "ego searches".

http://www.enterprisewebpro.com/2005/0104.html
01.04.05

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