May, 2009

Bing – Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Interview at All Things Digital

A snapshot of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Steve Ballmer at All Things Digital – Yusuf Mehdi does the demos which draw gasps and cheers from the crowd.

Take note from Steve on how exactly to say BING!

Archivist – Awesome Twitter Search Archive Tool

Any online marketer should be using Twitter to data mine for what’s being said about their brand, product, service or even their competition.

It’s a given!

Twitter Search is great for finding out what’s being said out there and they’ve now integrated the functionality into the tool to make it easier to search and check out trending topics.

Now however, the guys from Mix Online have come up with the Archivist which is a very cool tool for mining for Tweets, saving them and exporting them to Microsoft Excel for reporting purposes!

They point out that Twitter will not keep these nuggets of insight for ever, so it’s crucial you save them somewhere.

imageAs an example – Microsoft adCenter upgraded over the weekend, so I did a search on that found 328 tweets for that keyword.

There are a couple of “views” – the actual Tweets and avatars like above, or a trend line like below where you can see the spike in activity because of the new release.

imageA simple click of “Export To Excel” and you have a .TXT file you can open in Excel and play around with till your heart’s content!

imageNice huh!?

Check out the documentation and download it here!

Watch Big Brother 10 News on MSN

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Now live at: http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/tv/realitytv/big-brother/

Check out videos, photo galleries, news and blogs!

The Summer starts now! :-)

Me? Hand Dryer Salesman?

 

I get the funniest emails through from my blog:

 

Hello ,
Am XXXXXXXXX and would like to make an Order of Hand Dryers from you and would like to know the types and sizes you have as well as the prices and the types of payment method that you accept.Thank you and Waiting to hear from you very soon,
Regards
XXXXX

How do you respond to that!?

The Factory – ERP Viral Video

 

Was just pinged about this by Gavin from TSW!

Nice little viral with frighteningly good impersonations of Ricky Gervais and others from The Office!

Check out all of them here: http://www.k3scs.com/the-factory/

Microsoft Office 2010 The Movie

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Nice idea from the Office 2010 guys!

http://www.office2010themovie.com

33 seconds of fun which give a hint as to what’s to come in the new program.

To be honest I can’t imagine “No Return” “No Undo” and “No Control. Alt. Delete.” So goodness knows what they got in store.

They’re on Facebook and Twitter too…