Month: July 2011

  • FIR Interview: Jonny Bentwood on Tweetlevel and Bloglevel

    Identifying who are influential voices online is fast becoming an art if not a science. More technology tools and services are coming to market that help communicators identify people with high influencer rankings – typically, the types of people who…

  • Google+ growth rockets

    Extraordinary growth – Google+, the embryonic social network launched by Google last month, is approaching 18 million members, Mashable reports. Quoting data from Google+ user Paul Allen who has been tracking user growth throughout July, Mashable says Google+ continues to…

  • Can they handle the truth?

    Today might be a momentous one in the unfolding drama that embraces News Corporation, phone hacking by journalists, police bribery, corruption and who knows what else as Rupert Murdoch and son James face a Parliamentary select committee investigating events that…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #608: July 18, 2011

    Content summary: FIR Interview with Cisco’s John Earnhardt posted, interview coming with Edelman’s Jonny Bentwood about Tweetlevel and Bloglevel; next FIR Live is on July 30; "About" page survey; listener comments from the FIR Friendfeed Room; Ragan promo; News That…

  • Connecting you with an internet of things

    You’ve probably heard about the refrigerator that tweets introduced by Samsung at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in the US. I bet you’ve also heard about plans by car maker Ford to offer the capability for you to listen to…