Month: February 2011

  • Which Arab state will be the next falling domino?

    After nearly three weeks of protest in Cairo and other cities across Egypt, the end came quite quickly on Friday night so that, today, the country no longer has Hosni Mubarak running things and instead has the military in charge,…

  • Get your Kindle at Tesco

    Amazon have done pretty well in sales of the third-generation Kindle wireless reading device since it was launched in August 2010. And last month, they reported that sales of e-books have now surpassed sales of paperbacks in the US. In…

  • FIR Speakers and Speeches: Shel Israel on social media trends

    Shel Israel spoke at the Social Media Breakfast San Francisco East Bay on Friday, February 11, 2010. His talk focused on the dominant long-term trends emerging in the social media space. Shel co-authored (with Robert Scoble) Naked Conversations and more…

  • Defining boundaries for Twitter users

    If you use Twitter, what you post to the micro-blogging service is public. Unless you post a DM (a private message only visible to the person you’re sending it to) or your Twitter account is a private one (none of…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #585: February 7, 2011

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; communications-related Pollstream poll now on FIR site; diary reminder for next FIR Live on Feb 19; two new FIR Book Review podcasts posted; upcoming FIR Interview with Laura Thomas of Dell about…