Category: Business

  • Does Google Friend Connect have a point?

    Early last month, I signed up for Google Friend Connect, the service that Google says lets you offer visitors to your site the means to be part of a community. It’s great, I think, as in a very short space…

  • Is there an alternative to FeedBurner?

    In mid December, the RSS feeds for all my blogs including this one that have been managed by FeedBurner since 2004were auto-migrated over to Google. This is part of the changes that started happening earlier last year following Google’s acquisition…

  • No thank you, Chrysler

    When Bob Nardelli, Chairman and CEO of beleaguered automaker Chrysler, posted Thank You America on Chrysler’s corporate blog at the end of December, I imagine the last thing he or his communications team expected was the scale and depth of…

  • What’s it like to be the chairman of GM?

    There’s an interesting interview with Rick Wagoner, the chairman and CEO of General Motors, by Andrew English in yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring. If you follow news and events surrounding GM and the American auto industry, you’ll find it a highly readable…

  • When Apple asked about O2

    I had an email from Apple this morning, asking me to take a brief survey regarding my recent sorry experience with my iPhone which was replaced under warranty last week. “Dear Apple Customer,” it began. “Apple would like to get…