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Full story: Product placement insight from Mercedes-Benz
The movie version of the hit TV series Sex and the City opens in the UK later next month. Stars of the show look like being the range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles as much as Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. Yesterday’s Telegraph Motoring has a terrific feature on how and why Mercedes-Benz got involved. Choice quotes from Ferdinand Froning, head of Mercedes’ Entertainment Liaison Office in Los Angeles: […] “This film was a no-brainer,” he announces […] talking about the existing…
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Full story: Old Bailey opens its unseen files
What a rich resource for law students. Indeed, for anyone interested in the law and history of England: The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow [April 28], the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of more than 210,000 criminal trials held from shortly after the Great Fire of London until just before the Great War, and the biographical details…
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Full story: Three books for recommended reading
I’m not a great reader of business books even though there are some 20 such volumes sitting on my office bookshelf, all read and mostly not remembered. Recently, though, there has been a slew of excellent and compelling business writing that is very much to do with a broad area in which I have a strong and keen interest – things that are disruptive, whether it’s technology or behaviours, and the effects on people and organizations. So here are three…
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Full story: The Brits who went to Silicon Valley
I’ve been following the progress of a group of 20 British tech startups who have been in Silicon Valley this past week as part of Web Mission 2008. The trip – sponsored by HSBC Bank, UK Trade and Investment, TechCrunch, BT and Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group – was designed to showcase innovative UK web talent, seek meaningful assistance for companies ready for expansion, and provide a platform for those involved to gain valuable media and business exposure. Much of…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #339: April 24, 2008
Content summary: Dan York and Sallie Goetsch are your guest co-hosts; NewComm Forum, including an audio segment from Shel; Twitter outage; One-Minute News: Enterprise Web 2.0 to become a $4.6 billion industry according to Forrester, Linden Lab gets a new CEO, Skype on PSP, podcasting in plain English; Podshow renamed as Mevio, Facebook enables chat, WordPress plugin for Seesmic video comments; a report from David Phillips; LinkedIn discussions on blogging; Media Monitoring Minute; Neville on Twitter; LiveMesh; data portability initiative…
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