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Month: February 2009

  • Unfiltered Branson

    Sir Richard Branson isn’t just a guy with a beard and a penchant for sweaters, balloons and boat racing. He’s also the man behind one of the most successful brands in the world: Virgin. So starts the bio page that…

  • A Twitter Mosaic mug

    A whole industry has sprung up around Twitter, the microblogging service that attracts lots of money but isn’t yet too concerned with making any itself. Leave that to other entrepreneurs to monetize Twitter with the imagination to create something that…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #424: February 19, 2009

    Content summary: Twestival raises $250k and counting; upcoming FIR Interview; Shel’s in Vancouver, Canada; Dan York reports on the Facebook terms of service kerfuffle, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: How not to respond to…

  • Fingers crossed for a mobile industry standard

    Possibly the most interesting news so far to come out of the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona this week is that there seems to be clear agreement among mobile operators and equipment manufacturers to develop and bring to…

  • comScore: The growing appeal of social networks in Europe

    Interesting stats from comScore, the internet information provider, on the growth and penetration of social networks in 16 European countries in 2008. I made the chart above (for use in a PPT deck) that interprets the tabular data in comScore’s…