Archive for July, 2006
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Monday, July 31st, 2006Apologies for the video focus today but TechDirt has a great post questioning the proliferation of video-sharing services, which seem to be sprouting up like dandylions these days. What do you expect when the barriers to entry are so low what with low-cost servers, bandwidth and storage? Rest assured, there will be a few winners [...]
Lulu.TV Enters Video Fray
Monday, July 31st, 2006Bob Young, who made his fortune from Red Hat, is moving into the video business with the creation of Lulu.TV - a video-sharing service with a twist: it offers a “pro” account in which it charges content creators $14.95 a month to submit their videos. Of that, 80% is put into a pool, which [...]
How Long Does/Should a PC Last?
Sunday, July 30th, 2006A couple of friends at work had an interesting conversation last week about the life span of desktop or laptop computers - stemming from one of them buying a desktop for $500 based on the expectation that in a couple of years, it would either break or be obsolete. This prompted his friend to suggests [...]
Wi-Fi Telephony: Possible or a Dream?
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The New York Times has sparked a lot of discussion about Wi-Fi telephony - the idea you can make a telephone call over a Wi-Fi network when using your mobile phone rather than burning up your mobile minutes. While Mathew Ingram and Om Malik have their doubts (and the mobile carriers will make Wi-Fi calls [...]
Amanda's So Yesterday, Ze Frank is So Now
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Now that Amanda Congdon has left the video-blogging world (at least temporarily), the medium's new star is Ze Frank, whose in-your-face (literally), smart, rapid-fire commentary has become a must-see for many people (Rob Hyndman calls Ze Frank one of his first stops on the blogosphere). Ze Frank's star should burn hotter now that Blogspotting [...]
Freedom of Speech Event in T.O.
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Rob Hyndman, one of the mesh gang, is chairing a roundtable on online freedom of speech on Aug. 5 in Toronto at the Rivoli featuring Jon Newton of p2pNet, Michael Pilling of OpenPolitics.ca, Jason Young of Deeth Williams Wall, and Russell McOrmond of Digital Copyright Canada. More details on the event can be found here.
Wordpress Playing With Ads
Saturday, July 29th, 2006Since Wordpress burst onto the blog publishing scene, it has been a free service but this status may be poised to change. The company, which took some angel financing, earlier this year is experimenting with “contextual adsense” advertising. Here's Matt Mullenweg's explanation:
“Depending on how it goes, it could enable you guys to put your own [...]
It's Bubble Time, Baby
Friday, July 28th, 2006Well, it's now official: we're in the midst of dot-com boom 2.0 so get ready for another wild ride. The market finally turned the corner when YouTube CEO Chad Hurley was asked about an IPO by MarketWatch's Bambi Francisco. His response: “If we have an opportunity to go public in the future, that would [...]
Surprise, Surprise: Canadian Telecom Market Grows
Friday, July 28th, 2006Amid the doom and gloom of the telecom landscape, the CRTC issued a report yesterday Canada's telecom market grew 3.5% to C$34.5-billion last year while operating profits rose a healthy 8% to C$12.4-billion. That's that bad considering competition, particularly, within the enterprise market, is brutal. Most of growth came from the high-speed Internet and wireless [...]
As the Rocketboom Turns
Friday, July 28th, 2006In the latest installment of the ongoing Rocketboom soap opera, the site is being upgraded and a new version will be unveiled July 31 with a “consistent format, timely news stories of Internet culture (editor's note: what's that?) and many new features along with additional content on a regular basis.” Sounds like a case of [...]
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