Thursday, May 20, 2004

Microsoft's Gates Touts Blogging as Business Tool Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday told top corporate executives that Weblogs and the way they are distributed can be used as business communication tools. Blogs, short for Weblogs, have been around for several years, serving as online journals for Web-savvy disseminators of information ranging from personal ramblings, product reviews, to social commentary. The growth in the number of blogs, and those who read them, however, is attracting greater attention from businesses as a means to communicate more directly with their employees, partners and customers. That's due in part to the way that blogging has driven the adoption of yet another technology, called Real Simple Syndication (RSS). [Couldn't agree more! The iWay-Safety.com "news and views" content is a group of blogs also offering RSS feeds - those XML buttons available in each news channel. Download a free (usually) RSS reader and your in business to get any number of information feeds without filling up your email inbox. The majority of news comes in that way. If you're interested in tapping my (RSS) news sources directly, drop me a line.] 11:23:34 PM    comment []