US Airports Take The Liquids Out, Bangkok Puts It Back In…
Gizmodo reports that the new Bangkok airport will be cooled by fluids flowing beneath the floors: “Cold water flows directly underneath the floors on all levels, keeping the air a steady 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit up to 8.2 feet above the ground.” Very cool (sorry, couldn’t resist that…).
Eloqua Gets A Shot In The Arm
Eloqua – a product we use extensively at LogLogic – got a shot in the arm from U.S. VCs by raising US$13-million. We’re going to see more marketing technology like Eloqua which rather that existing as a standalone product runs on your dominant sales and marketing platform – in our case Salesforce.com. This has been part of the challenge for many of the marketing measurement vendors – without a dominant marketing suite or application to pivot off they can’t establish any reach throughout marketing organizations or real momentum. There is a real need for a suite of applications for the communications practitioner – something that perhaps blends Salesforce, biz360 and socialtext.
Sad…
In a sad reflection of the ever diminishing rights of people and extreme reactionary – and entirely unaccountable – travel policies here in the US a company has sprung up that will ship your products to the hotel for you…
Analyst Consolidation Continues…
This time it is Aberdeen getting gobbled-up by marketing firm Harte-Hanks. Aberdeen Group will remain as a separate operating unit and keep the Aberdeen Group’s fact-based research brand. Aberdeen have been long regarded the most, well, vendor-friendly of the analyst firms so this is probably a good fit.
Wired News: Web 2.0 Winners and Losers
Flickr wins in Wired News reader poll. Interesting that Odeo also gets high marks – need to go play with that. del.icio.us comes in at #3 – probably my fave.
Without del.icio.us, I’d be drowning in a morass of bookmark clutter. Seriously, drowning. Every article I’ve saved for later, every YouTube video I’ve earmarked for repeat viewing, every cache of free MP3s, every (ahem) NSFW page I come across. It all gets posted to del.icio.us. It’s truly a lifesaver.
