Author: Neville Hobson

  • The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #195: December 4, 2006

    Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; Cerado’s Haystack widget; Yahoo and Reuters collaborate in citizen photo journalism; Fox misguided copyright protection; the future of web advertising is in the UK; new study from the American Marketing Association; listener…

  • ABN Amro Bank opens in Second Life

    Dutch bank ABN Amro is to open an office in Second Life, Reuters reports. The Netherlands’ biggest bank told Reuters Second Life bureau that it will create a virtual bank resembling ABN’s real-life outlets, offering financial advice. ABN said it…

  • FIR Speakers & Speeches – Terry Fallis and Shel Holtz on podcasting

    Content summary: Shel and Terry Fallis, from Thornley Fallis Public Relations (and co-host of Inside PR) addressed Thornley Fallis clients in a breakfast session at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on November 15. Terry recorded the session…

  • Could the 40% offer overload Thresher?

    It started as a Stormhoek Wine blog post, was picked up by bloggers, expanded into chat forums and, one week on, has now made BBC TV news. The 40 percent discount offer from the Thresher wine and spirits retailer could…

  • Vodafone network problems

    I’ve been getting quite a few phone calls today to my mobile phone but I’ve not been able to take any. Not only that, I can’t log in to my voicemail to pick up the messages that people have left.…