Month: June 2013

  • Internet speed

    Although the numbers  have magnified in the year that’s passed since Intel published this graphic representation of what’s happening every minute on the internet, it’s still a terrific visual snapshot of the huge scale and scope of what technologies are…

  • Buy a real pint with a virtual currency

    A British pub lets you pay for your pint with Bitcoins: […] The system is quick and effective. The bar staff press two buttons on the till and the screen displays a QR code. The customer opens their digital Bitcoin…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #709: June 24, 2013

    Intro: No Shel this week, he’s at the IABC conference in New York; congrats to Shel, Richard Binhammer, Mark Dollins on launching SME2; in memoriam: PRSA Communications Chief Arthur Yann died on June 13; new FIR Interview up (done by…

  • FIR Interview – Carla Johnson on content’s role in sales enablement at #ContentMktgNow

    In a presentation at the Content Marketing Strategies Conference in Berkeley, California, on May 8, 2013, speaker, author and B2B content marketing expert Carla Johnson explained how marketing as the ‘promise makers’ and sales as the ‘promise keepers’ are often…

  • Instagram ups the game with video

    The stakes in the market for quick-video apps on mobile devices were raised a few bars yesterday with the release of a new version of Instagram that enables you to record video clips. Twitter-owned quick-video app Vine captured imaginations when…