In yesterday’s show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release. That pales in comparison to this story from VNU’s Silicon Valley Sleuth today which, if true, is far more alarming: Something extremely…
Now this is an interesting business acquisition, announced today: High Street beauty products retailer Body Shop has agreed to be taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal in a deal worth £652m. The offer of 300p a share from the French firm is a hefty premium on its closing price…
I was reading some of the excellent commentaries posted in the new IABC Communication Commons series of blogs which launched last month. One gem in particular caught my attention – Connecting inputs to outcomes, a common-sense and concise view of communication measurement by Angela Sinickas posted to IABC Measurement Commons.…
If you use the TypePad hosted blog service, you’ll likely find TypePad Hacks extremely useful as a resource to figure out how to, well, hack TypePad. You’ll undoubtedly find the 40 ways TypePad could rock even harder very useful in seeing the things you’d love to be able to do…
New requirements came into force this week for some non-Dutch people who wish to live in The Netherlands. The big news is a new immigration test where would-be immigrants have to take a compulsory exam on what they know about The Netherlands before they get a permit to come here:…
Content summary: Debbie Weil’s new podcast; Rob Safuto’s new venture and blog; Eric Schwarzman interviews the Washington Post; corporate reputation report from Hill & Knowlton; Forrester Research on social computing; Heidi Miller and Apple’s customer service experience; The Guardian launches ‘Comment is free’; Google doesn’t verify press releases; London’s Metropolitan…
Podcasting as a viable business venture takes another mainstream step with news that PodTech Network has received $5.5 million in venture capital funding from Venrock Associates, US Venture Partners, and Silicon Valley angel investors. In just under eight months, PodTech has grown to become a leading producer, aggregator, and distributor…
Everyone believes that one of the points of blogging and the internet in general is to connect with other people, right? That’s why we pay attention to things like LinkedIn connections, Technorati rankings, BlogPulse conversation trackers and other tools that let us see who’s connected to who and who’s talking…
