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Month: June 2006

  • European expansion for MySpace

    MySpace.com, the online social network, is often a topic I include in presentations and workshops about social media and social computing. The context is on the growth of cybercommunities and, in the case of MySpace.com, its rapid and growing appeal…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #147: June 19, 2006

    Content summary: Jeremy Wright’s b5media co-branded blogs for Fox Media’s TV shows; Netscape returns with a Digg-like news page; a new Digg-like service for PR; retailer opens store in Second Life; Nielsen releases email newsletter/RSS usability report; Robert Scoble speaks…

  • Branding your memory

    A great feature on the BBC website looks at corporate slogans, those tags or straplines accompanying a corporate brand. Some good examples from companies, principally in Europe, of the types of brand promise such slogans (hopefully) evocate and which arguably have…

  • Why no one trusts politicians and CEOs

    I can think of no better example of why politicians and business make for a poisonous and untrustworthy mix than the unfolding disaster at EADS, the parent company of Airbus, and the delays in bringing to market the new A380…

  • Great endurance racing at Le Mans

    A terrific sports event has just got underway in France – the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, the world’s most famous endurance race for sports cars and their drivers. I’m not an avid motor racing fan so I’m not…