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Year: 2010

  • No, the press release is not dead

    Four years ago, Silicon Valley blogger and ex-FT reporter Tom Foremski famously declared, "Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!" Central to Foremski’s passionate argument that the demise of the press release would be welcome – indeed, should be encouraged –…

  • FIR Book Review: Open Leadership by Charlene Li

    Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead is the new book by Charlene Li, founder of Altimeter Group and co-author of Groundswell. FIR co-host Shel Holtz and TWI Surveys president Ryan Williams set out to produce…

  • Hard to ignore the iPhone 4 design flaw

    The influential US consumer advocacy magazine Consumer Reports released a report about the new iPhone 4 yesterday with the bottom-line conclusion: “We can’t recommend the iPhone 4.” The magazine, which has more than 7 million subscribers and an annual testing…

  • XP: The OS that won’t die

    Microsoft announced yesterday that a public beta of the forthcoming service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is available for download. In his post yesterday, Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, said that after only 7…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #555: July 12, 2010

    Content summary: The new FIR iPhone app and a contest for free downloads; new FIR interviews posted; review of ‘Open Leadership’ book coming this week; listener comments and Friendfeed FIR Room round-up; 5 minutes on… Google Street View cars back…