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Full story: Getting to know the Xda Orbit 2
The doorbell rang before 9am this morning. There stood a courier guy with a big box containing an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and its ad agency VCCP. This is the latest smartphone from O2, running Windows Mobile 6, which is just now becoming available in the UK. So getting one hot off the press, as it were, for an early look and experimentation is great. The deal with VCCP is quite clear – I’ve…
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Full story: Consequences for not having a blogging policy
All is not well at broadcaster CNN, if the story of Chez Pazienza is anything to go by. Pazienza, a producer on CNN’s American Morning TV show until last week, was fired for blogging. At least, that’s what it looked like until Pazienza posted his account last night of what led up to his dismissal by CNN. I first heard of this story last weekend via a post by Erin Byrne on Burson-Marsteller’s Digital Perspective blog. In FIR #320 yesterday…
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #320: February 18, 2008
Content summary: FIR Interview with Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund, posted; FIR Report from Ronna Porter on IABC EuroComm posted; listener poll on FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio: results so far; the Gawker vs Edelman kerfuffle; CNN fires producer for blogging; Reuters introduces Calais semantic web service; social network developments: seesmic, Sonico, Twitxer; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listeners’ comments discussion; music from The Frantic; and more. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan…
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Full story: The key for Microsoft and Yahoo
It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google might get into bed together to keep Microsoft at bay, the scene appears to be set for a battle that, whatever the eventual outcome, will re-draw the competition map of the internet. I wrote earlier about the complexities in combining…
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Full story: FIR Interview: Connie Reece, Frozen Pea Fund – Feb 17, 2008
What did it take to capture the imagination of people and inspire them to take action that, collectively, tranformed into a movement of support, including financial, that gathered spontaneous and rapid momentum primarily via the micro-blogging online community that is Twitter? This is the story of Susan Reynolds, an artist, new media consultant and mother, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2007 and underwent a mastectomy later that month. From the outset, she blogged her experiences including about…
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