Year: 2006

  • Le Web 3 sold out

    Just over a week to go until Le Web 3 kicks off in Paris. Le Web 3 is the successor conference to the two “Les Blogs” events that took place in 2005, all organized by Loic Le Meur. This third…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #194: November 30, 2006

    Content summary: SNCR’s new print journal; Microsoft launches Windows Vista; word of mouth marketing; the police and the blogosphere; TiVo and attention; David Phillips reports on CBS on YouTube, XPRL and the CIPR guidelines; listeners’ comments discusssion; Dan York reports…

  • No painless switching to Open Office

    The French parliament has said ‘au revoir’ to Microsoft, according to a Yahoo News report: […] Starting [next June], French deputies will use desktops and servers running Linux, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, and OpenOffice.org, a free open-source alternative to Microsoft’s…

  • If Microsoft had Firefox…

    An imaginative spoof. I don’t know who’s behind it nor what its marketing or PR goal might be. No matter – hugely disruptive entertainment! http://www.msfirefox.com/ I bet Stuart would like this :) (Via TechCrunch UK)

  • The never-ending spam deluge

    If you’ve noticed a sudden upsurge in spam email in the UK recently, offering sex, stock tips, genuine fake Rolexes and the usual pharmacopia, it could be the result of criminal gangs using hijacked computers, says a Reuters report. I’ve…