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Year: 2009

  • Twitter apps: Mobile and sync are the keys

    The two primary Twitter applications for the desktop – TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop – released new versions in the past 24 hours. Both are the latest salvoes in a battle where one winner could gain supremacy as the app on…

  • Keeping Twitter up for Iran

    In the wake of developments in what’s happening in Iran following elections there last week – continuing violent street protests and the Iranian government muzzling the foreign media – this announcement by Twitter yesterday about its delaying a critical maintenance…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #457: June 15, 2009

    Content summary: How to subscribe to the new FIR email newsletter; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on June 26 will feature guest Gary Vaynerchuk; Eric Schwartzman interviews Leysia Palen, social media crisis communications researcher at the University of Colorado…

  • How to make your business card a smart card

    How to make your business card a smart card

    A post by Frank Eliason on business cards got me thinking a lot about the value of such bits of paper. And they are bits of paper, aren’t they? Name, title, company, logo, address, phone, email, etc, printed on rectangular…

  • But it’s not Cadbury’s

    As we’re in a recession, you have to look for cost savings wherever you can find them. From a consumer’s point of view, that often means compromising your brand preferences. At least, that’s how it looks to me when I…