Category: Technology

  • Expanding the FIR Podcast Network

    Expanding the FIR Podcast Network

    Next year, Shel Holtz and I will celebrate the start of our tenth year as business podcasters when we publish a milestone-date episode on January 2, 2014. For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report was our start on January…

  • FIR Interview: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, authors of Age of Context

    Two men who have been at the vanguard of social media and the disruptive evolution that different ways of working and communicating have emerged in businesses everywhere over the past decade are Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. Their seminal work…

  • The changes that did for BlackBerry

    Summarizing the tale of the rise and fall of mobile device and services maker BlackBerry as “changing too little and changing far too late” is probably as good as any way of succinctly capturing the sense of the huge fall…

  • The over-arching strategy for Google+

    One of the characteristics of any conversation about Google+ is a view that not many people actually use it – mostly the “users” versus “active users” argument – and how it will fail as it’s not like Facebook or Twitter…

  • How ‘social TV’ enables immersive involvement in live events

    Audience participation with live TV events via social channels like Twitter is becoming increasingly common and a big part of audience expectations. I’m thinking of campaign-type events, not spontaneous or serendipitous actions by individual tweeters, Facebookers or Google+ers with their…