Robert Scoble and Shel Israel gave a little bit of background on their book Naked Conversations.

While Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted the US arrival of his company’s Google AdWords killer, potential customers who use the Firefox browser found their attempts to join AdCenter were being killed by a lack of cross-browser compatibility.

A peek at one of Google’s datacenters reveals a look at Google Health, and if you try it with Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, Google suggests changing your search engine choice too.

On the heels of the previous post, which has some saying “CRM is dead,” comes a very interesting article by Barney Beal.

The blogosphere has been abuzz with the news that Skype has finally released its long-awaited SkypeCast service.

I am happy to congratulate our very talented blogmaster and SEO designer, Thomas McMahon for being selected by the Web Marketing Association as a judge for the 2006 WebAwards competition!

There’s still plenty of room to grow for local search marketers, according to panelists at the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) Annual Conferences. Though small businesses that have invested in local search advertising report good results overall, many of them still aren’t exploring the medium.

Online file-sharing service BearShare, along with operators Free Peers Inc., is packing it up due to a $30 million settlement with the recording industry.

When browsing through the offerings of various web hosting companies you are sure to notice that some offer UNIX hosting and others offer Windows.

Microsoft’s announcement that they are moving from a software company to a media company speaks volumes about the impact of Web 2.0 on business.

Some time back, a number of bloggers noted the launch of the Chrysler Firehouse blog, which limited access to the working press.

Yeah, I’ve got Flickr on the brain, but this is an important post. MIT Advertising Lab points us to the best use of Flickr yet.

Seth writes: “It might be more than just semantics. Disney Destinations Marketing has a new department: Customer Managed Relationships. Here’s the quote from them that Tim shared with me, “CMR is our version of CRM – just a slight nuance regarding our philosophy that our guests invite us into their lives and ultimately manage our presence/relationship with them.”

Text messaging isn’t just for hip teens or gadget-obsessed Japanese mobile phone users; mothers have been using it in greater numbers to keep in touch with Dad and the kids.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a recent conference audience Microsoft can challenge Google.

If you have a TypePad blog, you will definitely know about the denial of service attack on Six Apart’s servers earlier this week, when access to TypePad blogs (as well as other Six Apart services such as LiveJournal) was down for some considerable time.

Local elections took place in the UK yesterday and the governing Labour Party hasn’t done well at all.

To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, youve got to keep a lot of details in mind. Its easy to overlook the “simpler” protocols and services such as static routing and distance vector protocols.

An assortment of extensions for Mozilla’s Firefox web browser make it even more useful for developers who prefer using it for their work.

eBay’s Chief Executive Meg Whitman told analysts that she is fully aware of the threat Google poses to them, according to the Mercury News.

Don’t bet on it.

The wait is over. It’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy another installment of our Straight Up Site of Interest.

I’ve been at the Buzz Conference the last two days – an event hosted by National Community Church (NCC).

This interesting article describes how a Microsoft researcher (Michael Cohen – see bio) is trying to create a photo this summer (in Seattle) that will contain 10 billion pixels.