Author: Neville Hobson

  • How to understand Second Life’s potential

    More on the Second Life conference that took place on Friday: A transcript of the complete discussion has been posted, which includes panelists’ and participants’ commentaries Joseph Jaffe has a PowerPoint deck with some terrific annotated screenshots Mitch Joel’s latest…

  • Web 2.0 conference and elevator pitch

    If you want to get up to speed on Web 2.0 – how new technology, business models, innovation and culture changes will affect the direction of the web, the way we do business and the way we live – The Next Web…

  • Zap the worst spammers with one click

    I’ve written about blog spam quite a bit recently. It’s relentless and I don’t think you can stop it. This morning, I weeded out nearly 200 comment and trackback spams, a weekend’s worth of crap to hit this site. Luckily,…

  • FIR in Second Life

    We’ve just set up shop in Second Life, the virtual world where there’s already a growing community of podcasters. The FIR Shop is located on the ground floor in the Podcasters Mall on Podcast Island. If you’re a member of…

  • Cadbury product recall needs two-way dialogue

    As a lifetime lover of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate, I read with some dismay a BBC News report yesterday that Cadbury has announced a product recall in the UK. The recall actually affects seven of their products, all variants of…