Month: August 2013

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #715: August 5, 2013

    Intro: FIR Interview with Corey Connors is up, interviews coming with airPR founder Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer and with Critical Mass; Quick News: The legality of hashtag marketing, LinkedIn and Amazon eliminate PowerPoint presentations at meetings, mobile tops desktop for social sharing,…

  • WordPress 3.6 – blogging gets even easier

    A new version of the WordPress blogging platform and content management system was released on August 1 that not only fixes some bugs and improves security, but also brings a raft of new and enhanced features and functionality. WordPress version…

  • The magic of Google

    I bought a belt yesterday from Marks and Spencer‘s online store. A pretty routine activity – online shopping is indeed pretty routine these days – where I chose the item, authorized the payment and will see my purchase sometime today.…

  • FIR Interview: Corey Connors on intranet activity streams

    After FIR co-host Shel Holtz posted an item to his blog about the future role of activity streams on intranets, Corey Connors got in touch with him to explain his company had been using an activity stream as a key…

  • The Sun’s ‘walled content garden’ brings together print and digital

    Today, The Sun newspaper becomes the latest national mainstream medium in the UK to erect a barrier to its content on the web where access to that content is only available now if you pay £2 per week. Switchover to…