Author: Neville Hobson
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Web 2.0 certification
How up-to-the-mark is your site as far as Web 2.0 is concerned? Are you at the bleeding edge with Ajax, tagging, Google maps or community content? Silly or mis-spelled names and rounded corners? Now you can find out via the…
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Using Digg to game the stock market
In yesterday’s show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release. That pales in comparison to this story from VNU’s Silicon Valley Sleuth…
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L’Oreal snaps up British icon
Now this is an interesting business acquisition, announced today: High Street beauty products retailer Body Shop has agreed to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a deal worth £652m. The offer of 300p a share from the…
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Communication measurement 101
I was reading some of the excellent commentaries posted in the new IABC Communication Commons series of blogs which launched last month. One gem in particular caught my attention – Connecting inputs to outcomes, a common-sense and concise view of…
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A mission for TypePad
If you use the TypePad hosted blog service, you’ll likely find TypePad Hacks extremely useful as a resource to figure out how to, well, hack TypePad. You’ll undoubtedly find the 40 ways TypePad could rock even harder very useful in…