Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #321: February 21, 2008

    Content summary: Podcast Alley voting system now working again; discussion: the legitimacy of print on demand; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; description meta tags; the influence of employee bloggers in corporate acquisitions; successful marketing campaigns on social networks; start-up…

  • The continuing growth of Twitter

    An interesting stat posted on the Twitter blog shows which are the top ten countries with the most people using the Twitter social network as determined from Twitter’s public timeline. That’s how I describe Twitter, incidentally – a social network,…

  • Facebook fatigue and niche networks

    Social networking site Facebook saw its first drop in UK users in January, according to research from Nielsen Online as reported by the BBC. Users fell 5% to 8.5 million in January from 8.9 million in December, according to data…

  • Getting to know the Xda Orbit 2

    The doorbell rang before 9am this morning. There stood a courier guy with a big box containing an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and its ad agency VCCP. This is the latest smartphone from O2,…

  • Consequences for not having a blogging policy

    All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by. Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging. At least, that’s what it looked…