Author: Neville Hobson

  • Skypephone changes everything

    Skype, the internet phone service, is all about disruption. I remember thinking, when I first started using Skype back in 2004, that here’s a small, nimble company that will drive a massive wedge into traditional telephone service business models. From…

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #288: October 29, 2007

    Content summary: Shel explains the Philly Cheesesteak; Neville reports on today’s 3 Skypephone launch; upcoming FIR Interview podcasts; discussion: the future of consumer-generated content; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Lee Hopkins reports on stifling problem-solving through denial of oxygen,…

  • Reset your blog time when the clocks go back

    I’ve written a few posts this morning and, before publishing any of them, I manually changed the time in WordPress to reflect the fact that the clocks went back overnight marking the official end of summertime throughout Europe and many…

  • A scientific approach to blog ranking

    If you had to pick just 100 blogs that would provide you with all the content you need to stay informed on everything that interests you, which 100 would you pick? And by which criteria would you determine that 100?…

  • FMGY: Winners and losers

    The news last week of Microsoft’s purchase of a 1.6% equity stake in Facebook has had plenty of commentary with widespread analysis and opinion on the deal. I found the most interesting commentary in an article in this week’s Economist…