Ubiquitous Marketing

Ubiquitous Marketing is the personal weblog of Keith O’Brien, editor-in-chief of PRWeek. All opinions and work represent that of Keith O’Brien and not of his employer. Topics covered include marketing, PR, advertising, journalism, culture (both mainstream and alternative), and their inevitable confluence.

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Entries from May 2008

Quick programming note

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

From PRWeek
Eleanor Trickett, executive editor at PRWeek, has joined sister publication DM News as editor-in-chief. Trickett had been at PRWeek for seven years, initially joining as news editor and serving as features editor before assuming the executive editorship. Keith O’Brien, news editor and editor of PRWeek.com, has been promoted to executive editor at PRWeek. O’Brien [...]

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I’ve lived in the belly of the Web 2.0 beast

June 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

And that home can be found here (via Valleywag)

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Tags: Marketing · New comms tools

Auger

June 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

One man’s opinion, but here it is.
I have never enjoyed MySpace. I’m on it, but the profile, I’m sure, has grown stagnant. And I completely understand the benefits of social networks. After hearing about the joys of Facebook one too many times — my breaking point occurred here — I joined up. And I’m now [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Marketing tools · New comms tools

Whither niche?

June 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I know I count former Weblogs Inc. bloggers as readers, so maybe they’ll answer this privately, but what happened to all their niche blogs? Did they just slowly go to pasture (look at how many are on hiatus or retired). Or was it an abrupt end? I guess AOL just wanted the major ones. Knowing [...]

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Tags: New comms tools · Weblogs

Foleo’s future

June 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Here’s a confession: I’m not huge on gadgets. I like them fine, but I don’t obsess over them. But I do know that people who do turn to sites like Engadget. Mossberg aside, that site is the greatest arbiter of tech love.
To wit: Palm’s Foleo computer.

So when Engadget runs a review like this, as much [...]

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