A job advertisement from the future . . . Complexity stifles Web services Digital downloads would benefit Amazon.com: analyst Google Earnings Disappoint; Shares Plunge (Michael Liedtke/Associated Press) Google set to fall on profit miss Hands On With Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 Beta Is Google Going Commercial with VOIP? Japanese tech firms report strong Q3 earnings […]
Month: February 2006
The 2006 Forum: A milestone event for communicators
I’ve just finalized setting up my trip to California at the end of this month to participate in the New Communications Forum which takes place in Palo Alto from 1-3 March. My podcasting partner Shel Holtz and I are running a workshop at the Forum, the Podcasting 101 pre-conference ‘boot camp.’ This is a half-day […]
New magazine for podcasters launched
In show #103 of our podcast last month, Shel and I talked about ID3 Podcast Magazine, a new print publication about podcasting launching in May. Well, you don’t have to wait until May if you want to get your hands on a brand new magazine about podcasting as the first edition of such a new […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #108: February 2, 2006
Content summary: New Flash player in show notes; Google continued: China and earnings; Microsoft blog censorship in China; the press release padding trap; Edelman’s new podcast; new podcast magazine launches; what the EU needs is effective communication; is citizen journalism dead?; a job ad from the future; listeners’ comments discussion (moving to the Bay area, […]
Sound comfort for sailors
It’s comforting to know that HMS Daring, the first of the Royal Navy’s latest Type 45 destroyers launched on Wednesday, is fitted with the most advanced state-of-the-art weapons and defence systems. For instance: […] The main armament for the new destroyers will be the world-beating Principal Anti Air Missile System (PAAMS) – a collaboration between […]
SAP enters SaaS market
Yesterday, the German enterprise software vendor SAP announced it is entering the hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) market with the expansion of its mySAP CRM offering to include a hosted option. The first service SAP will offer as a subscription is its sales-on-demand solution, with pricing from $75/user a month, and with hosting services from IBM. In […]
Pricey freedom of the press
BBC News: Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says the ongoing boycott of Danish products in the Middle East had so far cost it between £40m and £50m. As the Muslim world refuses to buy Danish goods in protest over cartoons published in a Danish newspaper, Arla is losing £1m a day. Arla has also had […]
Good time to back up your TypePad blog
If you’re a TypePad customer, be aware that the hosted blog service will be in maintenance mode this weekend. From a note on the Six Apart Status blog last night: We have a scheduled maintenance window on Saturday evening from 11:00 PM through Sunday morning at approximately 4:00 AM to upgrade our database server. Upgrading […]
Moving towards Google’s EPIC
Still thinking that the Google Grid and the Evolving Personalized Information Construct are pure fantasy, just a history lesson from 2015? From The Times yesterday: Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who […]
Never mind the Superbowl, what about the 6 Nations Rugby!
What a tremendous weekend for contact sport! While every American I know was glued to the TV (or plugged in to the net) yesterday for the Superbowl – in case you didn’t know, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21-10 – there was some fantsatic rugby going on in Europe throughout the weekend. Three […]
30Boxes first look
I’ve been following the growing blogosphere buzz during the past week about 30 Boxes, a new online calendar application that some are saying is the killer calendar application. So I signed up for the beta yesterday. Noodled around with it for thirty minutes or so, added some appointments to my new calendar, set my preferences […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #109: February 6, 2006
Content summary: The latest state of the blogosphere according to Technorati; new media in the travel business; practicing safe surfing and the global blogathon; the Google internet; BMW gets kicked off Google; Lee Hopkins report; tracking conversations with the Conversational Index and coComments; the Superbowl and the Six Nations Championship; revitalizing the press release; Eric […]
If I were an architect
If I were an architect, I wonder what my critical eye might make of the design of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, through which I travelled yesterday. It’s one of the ugliest airports I’ve ever been to, a sprawling mass of bare concrete that evokes an absolute air of coldness. As you ride the […]
Comments are integral parts of the conversation
While I’m still having a bit of difficulty figuring out whether the 30Boxes calendaring service is worth spending any time with or not, I’m having no such difficulty in seeing the value of a service like coComment. The concept of this is brilliantly simple – provide a means through which any comment you make on […]
More like Dot Com 2.0
Second Chance Tuesday: The Web is back. Not that it actually went away, but you’d be forgiven for thinking so given the doom and gloom surrounding the dot.com industry over the last few years. […] We’re going to party like it’s 1999. Second Chance Tuesday? As The Times succintly explains, this is the next stage […]
Record audio at Odeo
Odeo, the podcasting service and directory launched last July, now offers a recording capability where you can record a commentary about a podcast: […] There is now a “Reply” button under the audio player on Odeo pages. This way, when you record and share an Odeo with people, they will be able to record a […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 09-Feb-06
Apple unveils cut-price iPod nano BBC sees bright future with Orange Blog Buzz on High-Tech Start-Ups Causes Some Static Chinese man ‘jailed due to Yahoo’ Desktop Reloaded – Today we’re very pleased to announce … (Inside Google Desktop) Ebay sees Google, Yahoo, Amazon divergence EU hands Microsoft antitrust setback Google Desktop 3.0: Privacy is Dead(er) […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #110: February 9, 2006
Content summary: Nvidia and its PR agency are accused of unethical viral marketing; follow-up to Google’s removal of BMW from its search; Gallup assesses the importance of blogs to web users; your value decreases the longer you’re unemployed; NPR opens the podcast floodgates; new services from Odeo; a report from Dan York; listeners’ comments discussion […]
The Firefox upgrade and plugins dance
Mozilla released an update to the Firefox browser earlier this month which, the release notes say, provides improved stability, improved support for Mac OS X, fixes for several memory leaks and several security enhancements among other things. Notwithstanding the security fixes, I’m not upgrading to this latest version 1.5.0.1 yet. The reason? If I do, […]
Beta view of what start-ups look like
Click on the image to see the slightly larger (and better in-focus) original on Flickr. And take a look at the comments there to get a sense of who’s missing from this visual list. I love the creator’s response to some comments: “the logo map’s a beta, too.” A number of these logos are of […]