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News on the dBTechno site today is Google adding Postini to its suite of Google Apps software.

Google bought Postini in July, vice president and GM of Google Enterprise Dave Girouard said, “With Postini, we saw the potential to deliver a more complete hosted solution for businesses of all sized.”

Postini is is an email service provider with 35,000 business customers as well as 10 million users around the world.

Full story here.

A couple of months ago it was just an idea in the back of my mind, but thanks to the organisational skills of my good friend 4eyes, soon to change his nick to “cat-herder”, last weekend it became a reality - and a roaring success.

Thanks to all that showed up for making this event such a great weekend - especially those that came from the States, Israel, etc. It was a great mix of SEO old-timers and the new generation of bright, young online marketers.

As usual there are a few pics springing up on the web (and a seriously crap video…) - if you’re bored, check out these links

Pics

Video 

If anyone has any more - please let me know.

Here’s to the next one - Cheers folks!

After posting this picture (taken at SES London a couple of years ago) on Facebook recently, friends gently took the mickey (most are considerably younger than I) and it gave me the idea for a caption contest. Just a bit of fun for anyone with too much time on their hands

BTW - that’s me in the middle

I noticed Ask sponsoring ads last night on tv before and after the commercial breaks in a new ITV drama - the interesting bit is the demographic they are targeting…

The program in question is Talk to Me, starring Max Beesley, a fluffy piece of thirty or forty something drama - a sort of cross between Richard Curtis’ Islington trendies and This Life. Very popular with the ladies, this campaign is consolidating the old Ask Jeeves tv ads of a couple of years ago. It was said at the time that although Ask had only a very small percentage of search, it did, however, appeal to the female audience and also that the searches converted well.

I personally preferred the old Ask Jeeves ads and was disappointed when Diller rebranded the search engine as Ask, certainly in the UK. Was Jeeves the butler a bit corny? Yes! But endearing in a hard to believe kind of way.

I can’t see it impacting on the mighty Google, but at least someone is doing something.