Last week, Shel and I recorded a little 30-second MP3 promo that we sent to Adam Curry to raise a little awareness with his Daily Source Code mega-audience of For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, our bi-weekly podcast show on business communication and technology. Adam played it on yesterday’s DSC! If you’ve not […]
Category: Web/Tech
Switching to a Mac isn’t for everyone
Ever think about dumping your Windows-based PC and buying a Mac? Perhaps one of those gorgeous-looking G4 PowerBooks? I know I have, usually at times when some inexplicable problem happens with some app on my primary Windows PC, a customized Toshiba Satellite laptop. While that machine’s getting a bit long in the tooth now, it […]
Blogs and wikis change the dynamics of business
Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece in today’s Financial Times on a new phase of the internet that’s emerging, fuelled by a new class of technologies coming out of Silicon Valley that don’t even have a name yet, but have the potential to be disruptive in their […]
eWeek: Blogger blogs can spread spyware
Can this really be true – blogs hosted by Blogger can spread spyware? Yes, according to a report in eWeek: Dozens of blogs hosted by Google Inc.’s Blogger service can install programs that are widely considered to be spyware and adware onto visitors’ computers, warn users and spyware researchers. In many cases, users are discovering […]
A mobile device wish list
Reuters via eWeek: Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would stop making personal digital assistants for Japan in July, completing its withdrawal from a market hit by multi-functional cellphones and casting a shadow over the tools’ growth potential. The move was widely expected after the electronics and entertainment conglomerate said last year it would stop […]
More media moves into RSS
Following recent news that the Financial Times and The Economist now offer RSS feeds comes more news on other media developments with RSS. Steve Rubel reports that the Associated Press offers 17 RSS feeds. This is the first time AP stories are available directly on the web in RSS as opposed to running through Yahoo […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #10: February 24, 2005
Show notes for February 24, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 54:14-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Chicago, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 22MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with your […]
Citizen broadcasting demonstrated
Jeff Jarvis has a great illustration on how easy it is for anyone to participate in broadcast communication: Who needs a multimillion-dollar studio? What you see above is the blogcast studio: A Logitech laptop camera atop my screen; the screen atop a box to get it to eye-level; notes for the spiels taped to the […]
CeBIT provides opportunies for engagement
A new wireless network roaming service will be available to visitors attending the annual CeBIT technology trade show in Hanover, Germany, from 10-16 March, InfoWorld reports. T-Systems International, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, will provide a roaming service to subscribers of wireless network operators connected to its international roaming system, according to Christian […]
Nooked launches searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds
Nooked, the creator of an online RSS service for publishing and measuring corporate news in RSS feeds, launched the beta version of a searchable directory of corporate RSS feeds on Friday. The Nooked RSS Directory provides a free, easy way to search for corporate RSS feeds by keyword or category. It indexes RSS feeds in […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #11: February 28, 2005
Show notes for February 28, 2005. Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 62-minute conversation recorded live via Skype from Concord, California, USA, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 25MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. (For automatic synchronization with […]
Skype approaches a crossroads
Is Skype reaching a sort of crossroads with its internet phone service in terms of customer satisfaction? Quite a few people think so, it seems. So perhaps I should really say – customer dissatisfaction. I’ve commented recently on the poor service with SkypeOut, which looks as though it’s at the heart of the many and […]
Microsoft brings in outside marketing expert for Longhorn
The Financial Times reports today that Microsoft has hired Michael Sievert, a marketing expert who was most recently chief marketing officer of AT&T Wireless, to be in charge of bringing Longhorn to market. Longhorn is the next generation of the Windows operating system, much delayed and now widely expected to be delivered in 2006. The […]
Phone companies feeling the pinch from VoIP
BBC News: Dutch phone company KPN has announced plans to cut 8,000 jobs over the next five years after it reported a sharp drop in annual profits. The firm made a pre-tax profit of 1.84bn euros (£1.26bn) in 2004, down from 2.25bn euros in 2003. […] The company’s chief executive Ad Scheepbouwer said the redundancies […]
Firefox extensions add great functionality
One of the great things about Firefox is the vast range of extensions you can add it to. These are little applications that you install into the browser which give you some great additional functionality. My two current favourites are Tab Browser Preferences (adding enhanced control over what you can do with tabs) and Spellbound […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #12: March 3, 2005
Show notes for March 3, 2005 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 33-minute conversation recorded live from a hotel room in Chicago, IL with recorded input from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Download the file here (MP3, 13.3MB), or sign up for the RSS feed to get it and future shows automatically. […]
Use Gmail as a hard drive
A nifty idea – set up your Gmail account so that it lets you use Gmail as a place to store things: files, games, music, images, programs, whatever you want to store: GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on […]
PDAs will become irrelevant
InternetWeek: PDAs are moving toward irrelevance, a new study by In-Stat released this week says. […] The devices are entering a stage of serious decline. In-Stat reported that PDA shipments in 2004 were only 8.7 million, compared to 10 million in 2003. The study predicted a negative annual growth rate of 21.5 percent through 2009. […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #13: March 7, 2005
Content summary: A discussion about IBM’s 2,800 internal blogs – how do they enable collaboration in the workplace?; and a 38-minute conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s "geek blogger" – on evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book project, a blogging ombudsman, […]
An open conversation with Robert Scoble, Microsoft geek blogger
Yesterday, Shel and I interviewed Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, in our bi-weekly podcast show, For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report. In a 38-minute conversation, we discussed a wide range of topics, including evangelism, anti-marketing, blogging, RSS and reading feeds, email mailing lists, relationships with colleagues, internal blogs at Microsoft, The Red Couch book […]