
100 iPad Apps for Public Relations and Small Business
100 iPad applications that can be used by public relations professionals in their line of work.

100 iPad applications that can be used by public relations professionals in their line of work.

The much rumored about Google music service, already seen as tough competition for Apple's iTunes, might be launch in time for this year's winter holiday season. Google's VP of engineering Andy Rubin has been discussing with record lables and pushing hard to have the new music service ready by Christmas.

Google has opened up a bunch of new API's for it's social networking service Buzz this week. The most significant API released is a new real-time "firehose" feed that will allow all of the third-party developers to consume all of the real-time data from public Buzz messages. The firehose, which is powered by PubSubHubBub, opens up the door wide open for building comprehensive Buzz analytical and data mining tools.

Yomego has recently launched My Social Media Reputation, a service to measure brands' online reputation and provide recommendations for improvement.

Google has announced that it will be shutting down the Nexus One web store, just four months after it launched.

Controlling a brand's image is a tough task, even for Apple. Dealing with product leaks makes that tougher.

It's the possibilities of Open Graph that Facebook is banking on, enticing developers to go further and deeper into users' content.

Apple invented the architecture every other brand tried to copy and failed to match. Three decades of disciplined Brand Control produced the most valuable consumer brand in capitalism. The definitive Apple communications archive on EPR's platform authority graph.

What's your honest opinion about popular songs, games, movies and television shows?

Facebook supposedly surpassed even Google recently in traffic, or so the reports say. Certainly Facebook has a rapidly growing user base, but if the company is making money they sure are hiding it well. What good is traffic if it won't pay the light bill. Facebook uses 5 times as much bandwidth as Google or YouTube, and no one knows how much they win or lose daily. Can speculation and hype continue to keep an online startup in business?