Month: August 2008

  • Dining with girl geeks at Google

    So on my first visit to the London office of Google last Thursday, I’m mostly remembering the food experience as much as the people who were there. That experience was when I joined in with nearly 100 others to celebrate…

  • Skype at 5

    It seems to have been here Since Time Began. But no, it’s just five short years since Skype first appeared. And it’s just over four short years since I first started using Skype, in August 2004. Skype has made a…

  • FIR Interview: Zembly CTO Todd Fast

    Sun Microsystems is readying a new online tool that will allow non-programmers to develop social applications in a collaborative manner. Zembly, currently in private beta, will make it easy for those with minimal programming skills to create widgets, Facebook applications,…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #375: August 28, 2008

    Content summary: PR Week blog contest update; brief discussion of FIR interview with Maggie Fox and Geoff Livingston; discussion of Jason Calacanis’ post about do-it-yourself PR for startup CEOs who should fire their PR agencies; the Media Monitoring Minute from…

  • Notables in the 2008 Gartner hype cycle

    Last month, IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Here’s what it looks like: What I find especially interesting is where on the hype cycle some of these technologies are, especially seeing their current and…