Year: 2009

  • Audio sharing and growing pains

    The Guardian had a good story yesterday about Audioboo, the audio-sharing service (and social network) that I started using in March. Audioboo is primarily an iPhone app where you record up to five minutes of audio that the app uploads…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #451: May 25, 2009

    Content summary: Happy Memorial Day and Bank Holiday Monday; FIR Live tomorrow; FIR Listener dinner on June 7; Shel and Neville guests on two podcasts: GrizzlyGrowls #100 and Luke Armour’s The Rundown; Michael Netzley reports on blogger prosecutions in South…

  • HP’s new OfficeJet Pro 8500 on trial

    How cost effective is your printer in terms of consumables like paper and ink or toner? Does it use a lot of electricity to run? Is it environmentally friendly in terms of manufacture, day-to-day operation and ultimate disposal? These are…

  • Exposing your analytics

    The new Google Analytics Data Export API which Google announced on Friday makes it easy to share some of your Google Analytics data on a WordPress blog thanks to a nifty plugin created by Spiral Web Consulting. […] this plugin…

  • Enriching content with Apture

    I’m a huge fan of Apture, the web service that turbo-charges links on your site to content elsewhere on the web that presents it in a discreet popup in the page you’re reading – you don’t have to leave to…