Great news if you have an iPhone and want to use Skype – now you can make and receive your free phone calls over the net just as you can with Skype on your computer with a version of Skype for the iPhone, free software available today in the iTunes…
There’s been quite a bit of talk today about the degree course in social media being offered by Birmingham City University that provides graduates of the course with an MA in Social Media. The two mainstream media reports I’ve seen – in The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph – both…
Content summary: Shel’s in Baltimore; Michael Netzley reports on the growth of the Tencent QQ instant messaging service in China; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Nicole Simon introduces an FIR listener contest to win free entry to Next09 in Hamburg, Germany; News That Fits: instant audio reporting with an…
Unless you live in a country where the clocks never change (there are a lot of places like that as indicated by the countries and territories in red and the orange in Wikipedia’s world daylight saving time map above), you’ll have done what everyone in Europe and many other places…
Finally I’ve had some time to set up a software app on my desktop PC to test it out and see what I think of it. The product is Norton Internet Security 2009 and I have a copy courtesy of Jason Mical and Tom Howells of Edelman and SpookMedia respectively.…
An early April Fool’s Day joke, or the real deal? You judge. I was reading reports that General Motors is planning to offer Twitter capability for drivers who use the company’s OnStar security, communications, navigation and diagnostics system. GM offers OnStar as a subscription service in the US and Canada…
Overflow from FIR #434 on March 26, 2009. A report from Gartner Research suggests newspaper publishers haven’t leveraged social media in such a way that papers’ biggest fans are able to serve as brand ambassadors. You can’t tweet an article directly from the newspaper’s website, for instance. It’s easy to…
Content summary: More troubles with FIR downloads; Shel’s in Texas; Dan York reports on mobile trends and the death of family identity, Cluetrain 10 years on; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; follow-up discussion on Robert Scoble and PR is dead: listeners weigh in; News That Fits: Comcast’s Twitter team…
