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Month: September 2011

  • Famous last words

    It’s probably no surprise to anyone that Oswald Gruebel, the CEO of Swiss bank UBS, quit his job on Saturday in the wake of the rogue trading scandal at the bank’s London office. That alleged crookery looks like will cost…

  • The ugliness of social media

    It’s a concise article in The Guardian but it’s powerful, shining a light on a truly ugly side of human behaviour. The subject is rape and, as the article’s subtitle so aptly puts it, how social media channels like Facebook…

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  • Rebooting Facebook

    As more than 100,000 others did, I sat at a computer last evening to watch the live video stream of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg deliver his keynote speech at the start of f8, Facebook’s annual developer conference in San Francisco.…

  • Universal Google+

    If you visit the Google search page today on your desktop or laptop computer, it will likely look like the screenshot you see here. A big blue hand-drawn arrow leads from the Google logo in the centre of your screen…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #617: September 19, 2011

    Content summary: Dave Fleet, VP of Edelman Digital in Toronto, is our guest co-host. There’s one day left to share your thoughts about FIR by taking the 2011 listener survey. An FIR interview with Jillian Bear of Morton’s The Steakhouse…