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Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe @ 12:03 pm April 18th 2009
, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dion Hinchcliffe

Last week’s announcement of Java support for Google App Engine (GAE), along with a host of new features aim specifically at businesses, served to reconfirm the Internet giant’s interest in providing enterprises with its [...]

Twitter has become primarily a business tool used by people in their late twenties to early fifties, according to new data from market research firm Nielsen.
The micro-blogging site has grown by 1,382 per cent since last year, from 475,000 unique visitors in February 2008 to seven million in February 2009.
The Nielsen data shows that the [...]

A Few Tools to Help Your Twitter Experience
Twitter has a whole world of available support applications you can employ to gain the most of the service for your business. Here’s a few of my favorites:
TwitterFox: This Firefox web browser plugin allows you to view Tweets within your web browser (in a popup menu). This is [...]

Can Twitter actually help my business or is it a complete waste of my valuable time? This was the very question I asked myself only a few months back.
Perhaps you’ve pondered the same?
When people I respect started singing the praises of Twitter, I decided to give it a go. At first I just didn’t get [...]

ZDnet
What’s Pownce?
Pownce is a way to keep in touch with and share stuff with your friends. Send people files, links, events, and messages and then have real conversations with the recipients. Pownce also has desktop software.
Pownce, a would-be Twitter rival that was heavily hyped due to the involvement of Digg co-founder Kevin Rose, will close [...]

Capgemini, one of the world’s largest providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is to extend its portfolio of outsourced services by offering Amazon Web Services. This adds to its cloud portfolio which includes Google Apps Premier Edition.
Capgemini has opened a new centre of excellence focused on cloud computing and Amazon Web Services. It will [...]

MediaPost
Madison Avenue is increasingly turning to neuroscience to refine the art of crafting successful ad campaigns. NeuroFocus is based in Berkeley, Calif. and that Nielsen was a strategic investor in the company, but didn’t acquire it.

Now Google is applying “neuromarketing” to video advertising. In a study released Thursday, Google and MediaVest used [...]

1. How often are the fuel prices updated? Our data provider MotorMouth updates prices twice each day from Monday-Saturday and once a day on Sundays. From Monday-Saturday fuel prices are progressively updated between 5:30am and 8:30am each morning and between noon and 3pm each afternoon. On Sundays fuel prices are updated between 10am and noon. [...]

Online advertising is the next evolutionary step in advertising for business. The facts show that more and more people are using the internet to both research products and in a growing number of cases, purchase them online as well. Online Advertising also offers something which traditional advertising, such as print and media cannot – detailed [...]

ONE - MAKE YOUR WEBSITE THE CENTRE OF YOUR MARKETING STRATEGY

Integrate your online and offline marketing activities
Be constant and consistent across the outward face of your business to the world, both online and offline
Does your website carry a consistent quality and theme to your offline promotions?
If you are running offline campaigns are they synchronising with your [...]