Holtz Communications + Technology

Later this month, Flock Inc.—a startup running from a garage across the street from Stanford University—will release the Flock web browser.

Are those yawns I hear? Another browser? Firefox rocks, Microsoft is beta testing IE7 to some pretty glowing reviews, Opera still commands a loyal following…is there really room for yet another web browser?

Well, yes, particularly since all of the browsers currently on the market do…

Firefox, the Mozilla-sponsored alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser—is the beneficiary of some of the strongest buzz marketing ever seen. Fans of the product even ponied up enough contributions to take out full-page newspaper ads touting the product. There are a lot of reasons to love Firefox—I use it myself almost exclusively—but the primary benefit noted everywhere is that it’s safe from the hackers who…

Ever since attending the Berkeley stop of Dave Winer’s OPML editor roadshow, I’ve been playing seriously with the software. A number of its capabilities are exciting to me, notably its collaborative capabilities. For example…

• You can add the URL to somebody else’s OPML file as an outline element of your own and all of its pieces will become part of your outline
• You can store an OPML file…

Ive just started playing with Findory, a site that creates a personalized “newspaper” containing news and blog posts of interest to you based on what you’ve read on previous visits to the site. FIndory touts itself as an alternative to an RSS news aggregator: “Anybody can promote a single news agency’s content, or build an overly-complicated RSS aggregator. That’s not the hard part. The hard part is is…

Imagine sending out a press kit containing nothing but blank pages because the photocopier stopped working after the first three or four copies. Or distributing a VNR that contains 10 minutes of baseball because somebody taped over the original video. No doubt there have been glitches in PR tactics, but most practitioners work hard to make sure the material they’re sending out…

Back in May, I posted an item here agreeing with Bill Gates’ assessment that cell phones will eventually displace digital media players like the iPod. That post was greeted with derision, most aimed at the current limitations of cell phones (battery life key among the reasons for dismissing the notion). Some of the posts pointed to the fact that Apple and…