Year: 2009

  • Chat Catcher lives on

    One of the most useful WordPress plugins I have installed on my blogs is Chat Catcher by Shannon Whitley. What it does is connect comments made on Twitter that reference content in your blog, and links those comments to your…

  • FIR Interview: Jason Goldberg, XING

    What your community can tell you about R&D is the basis behind Ship It!, a business model introduced earlier this year to XING by Jason Goldberg, its Chief Product Officer who joined the company earlier this year after his Web…

  • The news is dead; long live the news

    There’s much talk these days with various opinion and predictions of an unclear future for the newspaper business. We’ve seen some pretty radical events in recent months, notably in the US – the Chicago Tribune’s Chapter 11 filing last December,…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #448: May 14, 2009

    Content summary: Shel’s flying back from Brazil and Neville’s flying to Edinburgh; retrospective on show #339; Google makes changes to search and adds new tools; Media Monitoring Minute; the Twitter reply saga; News That Fits: the Association for Downloadable Media…

  • Panel discussion at Somesso London 09

    4:49:16 PM: Moderatorr is Christophe Langlois (@Visible_Banking) at Lloyds TSB and a blogger. http://bit.ly/fQsbh #smo09 4:53:29 PM: Panelists: Anne McCrossan (Visceral Business), Iain Simpson (BDO Stoy Hayward) … #smo09 4:53:59 PM: Panelists cont’d: Chris Thorpe (MySpace), Nick Burcher (Vivaki/Publicis). #smo09…