Microsoft and Web 2.0

I realize this post from Robert Scoble at Microsoft is more than a month old, but since it’s kind of long I just now had the time to read the whole thing. It’s a though-provoking take on what Microsoft should be doing to support the new web. It will be a new world if they [...]

MSN Virtual Earth

MSN’s new Virtual Earth service will give Google Maps a run for its money. In fact, Virtual Earth seems better to me in some ways. I’m in a hotel in downtown Portland. The auto locate feature said I was within about 3 blocks of my actual location. I’d say that’s amazingly good. Some other locations [...]

Sermon podcast on iTunes

Terry Storch got his podcast on the iTunes directory. We need to get our sermon podcasts (such as Living Water’s podcast) to show up there too.

Paid search

Search Engine Guide talks about churches using paid search (like Google AdWords).

Web 2.0

Richard McManus has posted a bunch more Web 2.0 links.

Jambo - connect with others in the room

Another in our series of posts on social networking. Jambo helps people at a conference (or people in a large church?) connect with each other and then physically get together.

Most Influential

Cool! Church of the Resurrection is #7 and Ginghamsburg is #9 on the list of the Top 50 Most Influential Churches.

Dumping SunRocket

Mike Wendland is switching back to Plain Old Telephone Service.

More podcatchers

Chris Lanier gives a list of more podcatchers besides iPodder and iTunes.

Even better than Skype?

Glenn of Vine Hosting directs our attention to Gizmo, a new Skype competitor that could be even better:

No limit to the number of people on a conference call
Has voicemail
Uses SIP and interoperates with SIP IP phones everywhere at no charge (according to Glenn)

Worth checking out.

Digital Community

This is what Irving Bible Church calls its “Digital Community“. It’s mainly forums, including prayer requests. A busy design, but hip.

Skype toolbar for Outlook

This new toolbar from Skype integrates with the Outlook address book and provides presence information. I haven’t tried it yet.

Consumer VoIP

Mike Wendland has dropped his regular phone line at home in favor of SunRocket VoIP service. $199/year for unlimited local and long distance calling. It’s no longer an experimental thing; it’s real.

Technorati is on a roll

Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web gives some stats showing that Technorati has become the top blog search site.

Facebook makes it to the popular press

Here’s an article on Facebook posted this evening on MSNBC.

Yahoo MyWeb 2.0

People are comparing this new Yahoo service (now in beta) to del.icio.us. I haven’t had time to play around with either one.

Keeping up with what’s happening "out there"

In this post, Dave Winer explains how companies can and should use blogging to find out what their customers are thinking. It’s not fun to be publicly criticized, but it’s dumb to miss out on the conversation because failure to take legitimate customer criticism into account will open an opportunity for competitors.
Richard MacManus agrees.
I believe [...]

Comparing Google and Yahoo rankings

A German blogger has posted a cool tool that compares Google and Yahoo rankings. I tried it on “church Kansas City“.

A church website built completely as a blog

Emmanuel Episcopal Church built their website within Typepad, a popular blogging platform. The website doesn’t have a blog, or refer to staff blogs, it IS a blog.

Podcast directories

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