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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Hey, I'm #10!
Well, here's a pleasant late-summer surprise: I'm one of 30 people named to Garrett Smith's list of VOIP bloggers – joining pals such as Om Malik, Alec Saunders and Andy Abramson (aka #1). While flattered, I'm secretly hoping to make another VoIP list this year (video) by posting on YouTube's every move…:) Thanks for the compliment, Garrett.
Posted in Main Page, VOIP Services, Competition 4 Comments
Where are Canadian Corporate Blogs?
I've almost finished reading Naked Conversations, which is part of my summer reading series (The Long Tail, The Golden Spruce). Although I share Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's ardent enthusiasm for blogging, Naked Conversations comes across as almost too evangelistic. They believe blogs are/will be an essential marketing/communications tool that few companies should be without. They [...]
Posted in Main Page, Web 2.0 13 Comments
Google Finally Unveils Office 2.0
After much braying from the sidelines, Google watchers are finally getting what they wanted with the launch of an Web-based productivity suite. According to InformationWeek, Google will unveil Google Apps, which will feature e-mail, calendar, instant messaging and Web site creation services. Later this year, it will also include word processing (Writely), spreadsheet and collaboration [...]
Posted in Google, Main Page, Microsoft, Web 2.0 2 Comments
Bubble Free 2.0?
Amid the talk about Bubble 2.0 (count me as one of the the-sky-could-be-falling-chickens) is John Battelle's take on the lack of Web 2.0 failures. Fred Wilson makes some excellent points about low burn rates and reasonable VC behavior so far. That said, there will be failures and lots of them when all those once bright [...]
Posted in Main Page, Venture Capital Leave a comment






Much Ado About Schmidt?