Mark Malkoff essentially spent all of June on AirTran, either in the air or in the terminal, in an attempt to break yet another pointless Guinness Book record. Naturally, the whole thing was preserved forever on his blog.
Embarq, a high-speed internet and phone company serving 5.7 million customers in 18 states, has had some early success making Web 2.0 part of its overall innovation strategy to improve idea generation and ultimately create new products. Here are some tips you can take from Embarq's success
Aside from telling the world what they're doing every blessed moment, people often use Twitter to drive traffic to Web sites or to promote products and services. But users have begun adapting it for a variety of other tasks--and before long, you too may be using it for the things in this list.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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On a typical day, weather.com, the Web site for The Weather Channel in Atlanta, serves up between 15 million and 20 million page views. But in September 2004, when back-to-back hurricanes ransacked Florida, the peak traffic on one day more than tripled: over 70 million page views by more than 7 million unique visitors. Read the full success story now.
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