Month: August 2009

  • Warming up to social software

    I’ll be in London tomorrow, doing a favour for a friend, and facilitating the first part of “Social software: Maximising knowledge-sharing in your business,” a workshop being presented for the Ark Group. The friend is David Ferrabee and I’m more…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #475: August 17, 2009

    Content summary: FIR Live on August 22: email marketing; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore with an update on the Rio Tinto ‘commercial bribery’ case and Western media depictions of China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: social…

  • Apple’s corporate omerta and share price growth

    At lunchtime, I was reading “Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple,” a most excellent feature about Steve Jobs and Apple written by Times journalist Bryan Appleyard and published in the Times Online (and probably in the newspaper itself as…

  • Add your voice to the illegal file-sharing debate

    News today that the government is pledging to combat internet piracy in the UK with a series of new measures, including £50,000 fines for those found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The Guardian says that the move is being pushed through…

  • Share your iPhone app recommendations with Appsfire

    One of the great things about iPhone apps is telling everyone about the ones you like as well as discovering what your friends like. Here’s a new service that lets you use email and social media to share your recommendations…