Month: September 2007

  • Maybe too late for Northern Rock

    What end is in sight for Northern Rock, the beleaguered financial institution whose customers simply don’t believe any reassurance that the bank is not in deep financial trouble? The media is full of reports and images of thousands of people…

  • Small moves and social objects

    The combination of something a little different, perseverance and hard work does pay off. Today Hugh MacLeod and Stormhoek Wine have that payoff in the form of the Blue Monster Reserve Label wine created by Stormhoek exclusively for Microsoft. The…

  • A cocoon of life within

    An almost organic shape, a skin that provides some unique functionality and a curious name are three characteristics that mark the Cocoon, a new clamshell 3G mobile phone from O2 launched in the UK in August. I’ve had one to…

  • Blogs drive business opportunities: UK survey

    A new survey on business blogging conducted in August by research firm Loudhouse – the results of which were presented at an event in London yesterday in which I participated – shows that blogs are rapidly becoming a credible tool…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #275: September 13, 2007

    Content summary: Shel’s on his own while Neville is at a speaking engagement. Neville discusses a new (and ridiculous) study claiming Facebook causes productivity loss; Shel follows up with a post Daniel Cornwall shared and some of his own observations.…