The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service. In a press release this morning, Microsoft said it plans to use this acquisition as a means to greatly extend the capabilities of MSN Messenger. An announcement on the Teleo website […]
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Tragedy knows no boundary
Reading and viewing online news coverage of the Katrina hurricane disaster in the US over recent days, I’m just awed by the sheer scale of so many people – thousands according to many news reports – losing their lives, family, and property. No comfort at all in knowing that this is a natural disaster, not […]
The (ir)relevance of trades unions
If trade unions had relevance, people would join them. But the world has moved on and unions have not. The UK workplace today is a significantly better place than it was in 1972. So says former trades union official Rory Murphy in a lengthy article in the Financial Times which discusses changes in attitudes and […]
Alfa Romeo sponsors car blog
Italian blog portal Blogo.it has secured another first – Italian car maker Alfa-Romeo is sponsoring Autoblog.it from today, 1 September. This is the first blog sponsorship deal for a European blog by a major automotive brand, Blogo.it said. In a press release, Blogo.it’s Luca Lizzeri said, "in January 2005 Autoblog.it had 20,000 page views in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #64: September 1, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (more on the PR blogger trackback stand-off; trackback spam; affinity for podcasts; FIR impacts HR; anonymous ok, but not cute and clever; show notes, etc); Hurricane Katrina and the role of blogs; developments in instant messaging; fired for blogging; blogger being sued; the Spinfluencer with Leo Laporte. Show notes for […]
Customer service from UPC? Fat chance!
Is waiting a week for your cable TV service to be fixed a reasonable time? Is it right to expect that the cable guy who’s coming to fix your service at an appointed time actually shows up? And is it reasonable to expect that, when you call customer service for the third time and they […]
Technorati’s new Blog Finder beta
A trackback overnight from Josh Hallett took me to his initial commentary of the Technorati Blog Finder, a new service launched in beta yesterday. This service does look interesting – Technorati say it will enable you to find blogs that frequently write about subjects you’re interested in by searching on key words. Tags, in other […]
Blogger goodness for Katrina victims
In yesterday’s edition of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, Shel and I had some discussion about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the role blogs are playing. Today the situation in New Orleans in particular is looking even worse than yesterday. This is simply horrific to see such a breakdown in society […]
Book review podcast – “Podcast Solutions, The Complete Guide to Podcasting”
We get books. They come in the mail sent by authors, agents, and publishers who hope we’ll review them. Some of these books warrant our attention, so we’ll be reviewing them here as brief podcasts. In the first of these reviews, Shel takes a 17:30-minute look at the excellent “Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to […]
Plain speaking on Katrina by New Orleans mayor
It’s a very clear and simple message: "Get off your asses and let’s do something and let’s fix the biggest goddam crisis in the history of this country." Powerful, emotional plain-speaking from Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, in a 13-minute interview yesterday with New Orleans radio station WWL-AM. This is a very angry […]
FIR Interview: Jeremy Wright – August 30, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Neville enjoyed a 28-minute conversation with Jeremy Wright, blogger, author and consultant. Topics discussed include Jeremy’s business blogging book and his forthcoming launch of a new consumer blog network. About our conversation partner: Jeremy Wright is a serial entrepreneur, some have even said a blogpreneur for […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 5-Sept-05
$100,000 per year… blogging. 2012 Olympic posts advertised Apple Appears Poised for iTunes Phone Launch BlogML will let you move your blog from service service Call Forwarding with Skype Disney says it does believe in fairies Lake George Pocket-sized DIY customizable paper organizer Podcast Anxiety: a cure has been found Privacy concerns over Yahoo IM […]
Spoiled for choice for getting podcasts
I use Winamp as my default media player. I also have iTunes as well as Windows Media Player that comes with the operating system. But I use Winamp when I want to listen to podcasts on my PC. It’s a compact program with a minimalist display that scrolls the show title and has a nice […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #65: September 5, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments discussion (new media, resumes and Googling job seekers; book promotion and blog tours); interviews and reviews; Ray Nagin’s radio interview, Zip 71101 podcast interviews and more Katrina news; new weekly podcast from Steve Rubel and Joseph Jaffe; from our Correspondent Down Under; Darren Barefoot argues that text is better than audio. […]
Virgin Atlantic podcast guide to Havana
The Virgin Atlantic airline has launched their second travel podcast – a guide to Havana, Cuba. Running at about eight and a half minutes, the story is narrated by Clive Anderson, familiar to British TV viewers as the host of the Whose Line Is It Anyway? stand-up comedy show. ‘Narrated’ is the right word as […]
Disaster planning, consequences and inevitabilities from Katrina
Two thoughtful articles in as many days from the Financial Times examine broad consequences of the Hurricane Katrina disaster from the business, economic, political and social standpoints. In the first, a feature on disaster planning, the FT says the consequences of Katrina for businesses worldwide are likely to be significant. Insurance claims are expected to […]
New blogging white paper from Edelman and Intelliseek
Edeman and Intelliseek have just published their latest white paper on word-of-mouth marketing called "Blogging from the Inside Out: The Rise and Effective Management of Employee Bloggers." The 22-page PDF document is a rich source of information that includes: Original data on the role employees play in shaping corporate reputation and on the frequency with […]
The giant street market
An email from James Cherkoff alerted me to yesterday’s edition of Shop Talk, a weekly BBC Radio 4 business programme, in which he was one of the studio guests talking about blogs and blogging. Together with Adriana Cronin-Lukas of Big Blog Company, Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystems, Azeem Azhar, a writer and analyst, and Heather […]
‘Project Green’ begets Microsoft Dynamics
“Project Green” was a code phrase I heard a lot of during my career with Scala Business Solutions, a mid-market ERP vendor and Microsoft Gold certified partner acquired by Epicor last year, and where I spent five years as VP of corporate communication. So it was with some interest that I read the news yesterday […]
Podcast empire-building
Silicon Beat: Podcast Alley, the grassroots podcast directory that played a big role in spurring the popularity of podcasting, has been acquired by PodShow. The deal happened last month, we’re told, and founder Chris McIntyre is already making the move from Nashville to San Francisco. A very interesting development in an embryonic but fast-expanding industry […]