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May 26, 2006

Feeding the thirst for knowledge about social media

- NevilleHobson.com

Tuesday and Wednesday in Cologne, Thursday in London… quite an intense travel week. So now back at base in Amsterdam to get my head down in resuming some pressing client work before the next expedition wave to Barcelona next... ›››

Category: Communication | Events | Podcasting | Professional Development | Social Networks | Technology | weblogs

May 23, 2006

Good PR, It Ain't About the Tools

- Media Guerrilla

It's funny sometimes to watch the awkward two-step between technology and public relations. Look no further than the industry frenzy that currently surrounds PR and social media, and you'll see what I mean. We're all trying to navigate industry... ›››

Category: PR | Tech Tools | Technology | technorati

May 22, 2006

Google: The Buddha of the internet age

- NevilleHobson.com

A nice soundbite from an observer of the Google Zeitgeist Europe conference taking place in the UK today: […] One analyst, who declined to be named, said: “Google likes to see itself as the Buddha of the internet age... ›››

Category: Business | Europe | Technology | Web | leadership

May 21, 2006

Surely conventional wisdom can’t be right

- NevilleHobson.com

Jeff Jarvis says: […] The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. They create, at best, a one-way... ›››

Category: Books | Technology

May 19, 2006

SAP and the science of market disruption

- NevilleHobson.com

German enterprise software vendor SAP is open to an acquisition by US technology groups, according to a Financial Times report yesterday: […] Hasso Plattner, supervisory board chief at the German group, said in an interview with FT Deutschland, the... ›››

Category: Business | Investor Relations | Marketing | Software | Technology | Workplace | public relations

May 14, 2006

The BBC’s Second Life

- NevilleHobson.com

This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The... ›››

Category: Music | Online Media | Technology | Web | entertainment | innovation | mainstream media | second life

May 13, 2006

Spell with Flickr

- a shel of my former self

Flickr is a treasure trove of material; it’s remarkable what people will take pictures of. For example, people shoot pictures of letters they find on signs. Some folks with a knack for programming have put together a little application... ›››

Category: Technology | Web

May 12, 2006

Skype offers translations

- a shel of my former self

Hot on the heels of its introduction of its SkypeCasting conference call service, Skype announced a deal yesterday with LanguageLine to make language_line%c2%ae_personal_interpreter/view/">personal real-time translations available for Skype calls. Callers needing to hear translations of the voice on the... ›››

Category: Technology

May 11, 2006

Biz-Tech-News: Headlines 11-May-06

- NevilleHobson.com

Heading off to catch a flight to London where I’m participating in the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow. This is a hot event with more than 150 communicators participating, from around the UK and from continental Europe. I’m... ›››

Category: Business | Headlines | Technology

May 10, 2006

The French oxymoron called Quaero

- NevilleHobson.com

In January, I wrote about Quaero, a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government. My own thoughts about it were expressed thus: […] The idea of Quaero is a terrific one.... ›››

Category: Business | Europe | Technology | Web | politics

Democracy in action

- NevilleHobson.com

Yesterday, a new president of Costa Rica was sworn in during a televised ceremony that was a model of the democratic process that you take for granted in western countries but not at all in most of Latin America.... ›››

Category: Technology | costa rica | politics | television

Just when I was warming up to IE7...

- a shel of my former self

I couldn’t get the first public beta release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7 to install on my PC. I got an error that, evidently, was shared by enough others to warrant a notice on Microsoft’s site that the... ›››

Category: Technology | Web