Tag: PR

In Ray Ozzie's recent farewell note to his teammates in Redmond, he stressed the importance of looking to the future. "[...]The first step for each of us is to imagine fearlessly; to dream," he said, adding "It's the dawn of a new day – the sun having now arisen on a world of continuous services and connected devices." Microsoft's new slogan certainly runs parallel to Ozzie's focus on ...

IE9 is all about being open and "making the Web a more beautiful place." In that spirit, Microsoft has done something I've never seen a browser maker do before: its IE9 product team just went on reddit, directly talking to the community and answering questions. These are the actual developers – not PR people (not that I have anything against PR people!). The thread is huge, and as you can ...

Facebook has just launched a new feature-slash-PR-initiative called Facebook Stories, which lets you -- you guessed it! -- share your stories about Facebook. Judging by the categories, they're hoping users will share the positive, miraculous things Facebook has done for them. Love, friendship, peace, communities and support groups are all on the list, but most of the Facebook stories in my ...

I can't believe I forgot to follow up with this one: Remember WeblogWire, the experiment by entrepreneurs Jason Baptiste and Brian Breslin to get a profitable startup running from scratch in one week and on $500? Well, they didn't quite make their deadline, but they did do it for under half a grand. Yesterday WeblogWire made a "soft launch," with its official launch today, about a week behind ...