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Year: 2007

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #269: August 23, 2007

    Content summary: Follow up on Mattel toy recall crisis; Dan York reports; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Verizon, Starbucks and Comcast PR blunders; the Skype outage clarified; WalMart on Facebook; US intelligence community launches A-Space, an internal social network;…

  • Japanese Wall Street to open in Second Life

    So businesses don’t think Second Life is worth investing their time and money in? Tell that to Dentsu and the financial community in Japan. The Japanese advertising firm is launching ‘Virtual Tokyo,’ a virtual megalopolis that will open its doors tomorrow…

  • Don’t just ban Facebook, provide guidance

    More businesses are restricting employees’ access to Facebook due to concerns about productivity and security. CNET News quotes research by security company Sophos which says that 43 percent of workers polled said their employer blocks Facebook access completely. There’s been…

  • Retro Mac theme for WordPress

    I’m not a Mac user although I did use an Apple Macintosh II from time to time in the late 80s. Seeing this retro Mac WordPress theme brought back some memories: I wonder if there’s one modelled on the Windows version…

  • Facebook critique stretches credulity

     First it was Second Life that came under a microscope of criticism from the mainstream media questioning its business value. Now it’s the turn of social networking site Facebook. If a report from Australia is to be believed, Facebook costs…