In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville enjoyed a 53-minute conversation with Rick Klau, Vice President of Business Development for FeedBurner, the RSS service. Download the conversation here (MP3, 21MB), or sign up for the Interviews RSS feed to get it and our future interviews automatically. For automatic synchronization with […]
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A standard symbol for RSS?
One of the topics Shel and I discussed with Rick Klau of FeedBurner during our FIR podcast interview with him on Tuesday was about the challenges of helping ‘normal’ people understand what RSS is. The acronym itself and the little orange icons with ‘RSS’ or ‘XML’ you see everywhere really are not helpful to the […]
Yahoo! hammered by users over poor successor to Konfabulator
In my post on Monday about software hits and misses, I gave the new Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0 a definite ‘miss’ verdict for the moment as this version for Windows really doesn’t appear to be worthy of unleasing on an unsuspecting public as this growing comment thread in the support forum clearly indicates. When I […]
FT: ‘Tolerate some libel for the greater good’
There has been much written in recent weeks concerning the character assassination of John Seigenthaler over his biography in Wikipedia, prompting much discussion over the trustworthiness of an open information resource like Wikipedia which anybody can edit. The character assassin was outed and Wikipedia is now implementing tighter controls over who can edit material. The […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #94: December 15, 2005
Content summary: Personal video uploads at YouTube.com: the new ‘Flickr for video’; self-destruct SMS messaging; the Structured Blogging Initiative; are Nielsen TV ratings headed for extinction?; Wikipdia gets high ratings for accuracy of science entries; listeners’ comments discussion (PR and propaganda; show format and length; Nokia N90 blog relations campaign; emotional links; working with IT […]
Getting back up to speed with TypePad
A welcome sight for every TypePad customer – you can access the TypePad service again and you can update your blog to reflect accurate content. (Quick jump: I’ve included some tips below on how to republish your blog and how to make a backup of its post content.) If you didn’t visit this blog at […]
Six Apart: Perceptions and the role of communication
This is clearly not a good time for some companies offering blogosphere services. Last week it was Six Apart’s nightmare with the TypePad service outage for almost a full day. Now it’s the turn of del.icio.us which is still suffering in the aftermath of a power failure at their datacenter last week. If you try […]
Life is not a box of chocolates
So you’re a customer, you’re seriously angry and you have a blog. No prizes for guessing what you do. You blog it, as Guillaume has done today: […] I am furious to a point you can’t possibly imagine, but thankfully I live in Paris, and I am going to go back to the shop, and […]
TypePad’s indelible record
Noodling around the web and the blogosphere in preparation for tonight’s podcast discussion about Six Apart’s TypePad outage last Friday, I noticed that in the majority of blog posts I scanned, the bloggers concerned were apologizing for their blogs being offline. “Indelible record” is the phrase that immediately springs to my mind. All those hundreds […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #95: December 19, 2005
Content summary: Latest survey on corporate blogging; the declining trust in corporations; Google buys AOL stake; Pheedo study on ads in RSS; Gmail on cell phones; Topix.net accepts user content; Steve Rubel quits Across the Sound; Lee Hopkins’ report; listeners’ comments discussion (why blogs and wikis are so good; a Christmas list for communicators); does […]
Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 20-Dec-05
Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Windows for the Year 2006 Happy Web 2.0 holidays from Google Heathrow gets third hotspot option iPod headphones may damage hearing Jeff Jarvis officially has more influence than Dell does On Mac, Skype Sucks CPU Outage Update and Keeping Updated Paris Metroblogging live Quick thoughts on the Google/AOL Deal […]
Looking to the next billion internet users
The internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users, says web usability guru Jakob Nielsen. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, mostly in Asia, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs. Nielsen’s latest Alertbox report yesterday is packed with useful information and […]
Write and post to your blog from Performancing for Firefox
This is very nice indeed – Performancing, an extension for Firefox 1.5 that enables you to use write a post and publish it to your blog just by using Firefox. It may be just an extension but it’s a pretty powerful one. It’s a full-featured editor that presents you with the kind of editing interface […]
The angels of the north ride again
Following the success of last month’s one-day conference at the University of Sunderland on RSS, blogs and other new media tools, the event is going on the road with another conference in February. Delivering The New PR – How Blogs, Podcasts and RSS Can Work For You (PDF) will take place on Wednesday 15 February […]
Video publishing and other cool things
Interesting developments with video, blogs and mobile phones. Videos of the panel sessions at Les Blogs 2.0 in Paris earlier this month are now available from Vpod.tv, a new video publishing venture from entrepreneur Rodrigo Sepúlveda. You can stream the video (amazing quality) or download the files (big, +/- 200 megs each). (Now’s your chance […]
Salesforce.com and Six Apart outages: What’s the difference?
The anger and frustration over the TypePad service outage last week was an interesting phenomenon. Bloggers are passionate and opinionated! So when I read an InfoWorld story about Salesforce.com’s service outage yesterday, I wondered what bloggers were saying. A quick Technorati search on the term “salesforce.com+outage” turned up just 10 posts. In contrast, a Technorati […]
FIR Interview – Andy Abramson, CEO, Comunicano – December 21, 2005
In this edition of For Immediate Release podcast interviews, Shel and Neville enjoyed a 58-minute conversation with Andy Abramson, CEO of Comunicano, the PR agency behind the blog relations campaign for the Nokia N90 smartphone. Download the conversation here (MP3, 23MB), or sign up for the Interviews RSS feed to get it and our future […]
Window shopping
“Displax developed by Edigma combines rear projection holographic screens with finger tracking to bring interactive storefront displays to retailers and various commercial applications. Displax® – Interactive Window allows human interaction in a shop window, with multimedia applications, emission and record of sounds, detection of human presence in front of the display, etc.” Not exactly hot […]
A fortuitous move in a boom-and-bust tech business
Wall Street Journal: Seagate Technology has agreed to pay $1.9 billion in stock to buy rival Maxtor Corp. The transaction unites two of the biggest makers of computer disk drives, a boom-and-bust business in which Seagate has long played the role of consolidator. I’ve bought and installed quite a few hard drives in my time. […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #96: December 22, 2005
Content summary: GM uses video iPod in media relations campaign; a Christmas shopping tale; we’re all tech junkies now; Eric Schwartzman’s interview with Doug Kaye; listeners’ comments discussion; measuring communication old and new; Dan York’s report; the music. Show notes for December 22, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a […]