The position of former Microsoft Office chief Steven Sinofsky has been replaced. It’s apparently going to take two people, though, to take over his old job. Kurt DelBene and Antoine Leblond were tapped as Sinofsky’s replacements.

Attending SAPPHIRE as a credentialed blogger was not only a wonderful personal experience, but perhaps a watershed moment for how enterprises engage in social media.

Business blogger Jack Yoest of Yoest.org is guest blogging over at my good friend Anita Campbell’s independent business industry leading blog and Forbes Favorite in Best of the Web in 2005 Small Business Trends.

Remember when desktop publishing was the next big thing? (Of course not, you’d have to be my age and remember when certain rock formations were born.)

I attended the Business Marketing Association conference in San Jose, and had the chance to hear a great presentation by Justin Crotty, who is the VP of Channel Marketing for Ingram Micro, a $28 billion technology distributor (#72 on the Fortune 500 last year, for what it’s worth).

Shh! Whatever you do, don’t say Intermix. Say “Richard Rosenblatt, former chairman and CEO of the company behind MySpace.” They might remember. Even better, call him the MySpace “founder,” DeWolfe and Anderson won’t care – everybody knows press releases are full of it.

I couldn’t get the first public beta release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7 to install on my PC.

At Earthlink they had a take your child to work day yesterday and a fun writeup about how they taught the kids to blog.

Google AdWords is saving some legwork for carpe sue’em attorneys. Revealing what we are likely to see more of in the future, a New York blogger was reluctant to use the moniker “ambulance chaser.”

I’ve been to a lot of conferences and events. Last week I was at the Webmaster World Pubcon.

I have been on the Web for 12 years now and the Internet for many more, going all the way back to BBSs, CompuServe and Genie.

The decision by Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital to drop $13.5 million into SimplyHired is an interesting one in light of the website’s competition, who boasts more traffic. According to Hitwise, SimplyHired.com brings in only a third of traffic rival job site Indeed.com.

The interest and attendance at last night’s Third Thursday meetup was *way* beyond my expectations, I don’t know what to say, I think we had about 80 people, in PR, marketing and otherwise, which ain’t bad for a first-time gig.

After seeing complaints posted at the forevergeek.com blog complaining of suspicious mass-promoting of stories and its banning from Digg, site creator Kevin Rose addressed them in his Digg the Blog.

The constant struggle to get people to want to work for you is an enigma most business owners wrestle with.

Goodmail CEO Richard Gingras appears to have employed the Jedi Mind Trick to convince the California Senate that AOL’s Goodmail arrangement was never about fighting spam and phishing. One imagines a room reduced to murmurs and page flipping as reporters dig through their notes from February.

MySpace.com has garnered a lot of attention lately as the 70 million member website became teen phenom. Though the loyal membership was richly concerned with the News Corp. buyout, many have noted that Intermix Media had cloudy and questionable history.

MSN Spaces has added a Windows Live Expo module, so people can list their Expo items on their Space.

Regulars here know that I am a huge Mark Cuban fan.

Richard MacManus noticed that a Google employee at Mix06 was “very bullish” on Atom while Microosft seemed to be bullish on RSS.

I always wanted to be an expert in something. After six years of college and two degrees, I thought I was a political expert.