Where has Brad been?

Posted: December 18, 2007

It’s been almost two months since I’ve posted, and possibly longer since I’ve managed to go through and answer all of my email. Instead of trying to answer everyone individually, I’m taking the lazy way out and doing a quick update via a blog post.

I spent a few weeks in Europe on vacation (no email at all); and rented Glin Castle for a week for my wedding which was a fantastic time.

RHDi or RHD Interactive (a combination of LocalLaunch; Business.com, DexKnows.com, and RHD interactive) is a fascinating place right now; which has kept me incredibly busy and away from forums and postings sine I returned to the states.

I think I make a resolution every year to blog more, and somewhere along the way that’s one (among many) resolutions I don’t end up keeping; but we’ll see how it goes in the new year.

Some quick industry updates:

Xobni.com is a fascinating beta for getting more out of Oulook. It doesn’t fully take advantage of Office 07; but does well with earlier versions.

Zoho is on a rampage launching new web-based apps. I’m excited to see what their new mail system churns out (I don’t have an invite yet - and I’m open to testing); but their feature set is starting to blow past incumbents that have focused on niches such basecamp, or Google docs.

AdWords editor 4.0 has a bug in it’s update feature. If you want Editor 5.0; uninstall 4.0 and then do a clean install.

If you haven’t played with it yet, the adCenter plug-in for excel is pretty interesting. If you don’t have an invite, then experiment with adLabs. Microsoft also has some fun stuff in the pipeline which should come out in the next few months. Excpect a much nicer toolset in 08; now if they could only double their traffic.

Microsoft Spaces needs a way to recover lost URLs. One of my hotmail accounts expired, and now I can’t get back ewhisper.spaces.live.com. However, now one can link passport accounts together, so that should help others in the future.

Worldmate, my favorite mobile travel app, now has a free version. Unforunatly, the newest version has a couple of display bugs compared to the older one; however, if you are a frequent traveler this app is for you.

Microsoft’s Live Search Mobile is an amazing mobile app for location based services. Now if they could only upgrade the way hotmail works on a mobile phone (or allow a Plaxo integraiton with Hotmail).

Yahoo’s mobile app has some nice additional content functionality; however it’s slow even on my Verizon network. If they speed up that app, add some formatting, and increase the on-demand data fields, it would be one of my favorite places to get additional news and scores (I’m in the LocalLaunch fantasy football championship this week - not bad for a first time fantasy football player).

Search Marketing Standard has been doing some smart marketing through bloggers and industry experts. If you’re looking for a print version of search news to get off the computer for a while, it’s worth picking up a copy and see how you like it. It’s one of my regular reads on a flight.

I’m still working on determining my speaking engagements next year. After this year, where I spent well over 100 hours (and it might be more like 120-140) on stage; I feel a change (and a few less airline miles) is coming this year.

I will try to get through all my emails; but if you’re in Chicago - then leave me a note and we can (maybe) do lunch.

enjoy.

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Written by Brad Geddes aka eWhisper · Filed Under Blog

Comments

2 Responses to “Where has Brad been?”

MarioFr on December 19th, 2007 1:48 am

Finally!

First, congrats on your wedding!

I was really wondering where did you go
Welcome back and I hope you wont go so soon again…
Dave Davis on December 19th, 2007 5:01 am

Congratulations on tying the knot Brad. I hope you liked Ireland.

Oh, and welcome back.