Year: 2006

  • Cyworld’s global expansion

    Back in May, I watched a fascinating report on BBC TV about Cyworld, the virtual social network on the net in which 17 million South Koreans spend a lot of their time. That’s 35 percent of the country’s population of…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #158: July 27, 2006

    Content summary: Vote for FIR in Podcast Awards 2006; NewAssignment.net: experiment in open source journalism; PR Week client satisfaction rankings; ToolURL; Shift’s PR 2.0 guide; OPML podcast directory; Marriott Hotels reaches out to blogger; Podshow’s ads in RSS feeds; Shel’s…

  • Speaking at some great events

    We’re well into the summer now, halfway through the really quiet period when most of Europe goes on holiday. At least the weather’s fantastic, in all senses of that word. So it’s a good time to start preparing for participating…

  • A good Dell experience

    I like Dell. I really do. Since I bought my Dimension XPS Gen5 desktop PC a year ago, I have no complaints at all. It’s a great computer. Over the past twelve months, I’ve called Dell support for some help…

  • If it looks too good to be true…

    Today is my lucky day! I got this letter in the mail from Spain to tell me that I just won €615,810 in La Primitiva Lottery! It was sorely tempting to do what the prize letter asked – fax back…