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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #290: November 5, 2007
Content summary: Neville on Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot; Facebook’s reversal on cancelling a nom de plume blogger’s account; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; EU cracks down on fake blogs; Google and the Open Social API; how to be more than a blip in the blogosphere; social media study from the Council of […]
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Full story: EU cracks down on fake blogs
In 2005, the European Union published a Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices that, among other things, outlines “sharp practices” which will be prohibited throughout the EU, such as pressure selling, misleading marketing and unfair advertising. The Directive is due to become part of EU members’ national laws in early 2008. Social media channels such as […]
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Full story: 3 Skypephone: First impressions
Since mobile operator 3 launched the Skypephone in the UK last Tuesday, I’ve had a pair of them to play with. Quite a few thoughts to share. First, though, a quick overview of the Skypephone. The photo here of the black Skypephone – there are two others, in white with blue or pink edging – […]
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Full story: Is Google Feedfetcher the culprit?
A tweet from Marjolein Hoekstra about a sudden 45 percent drop in subscribers to her RSS feed led me to check the subscriber stats for my RSS feed at Feedburner. Sure enough, it shows a drop of about 35 percent yesterday, as the screenshot above indicates. You will usually see a fall in RSS subscribers […]