Monthly Archives: December 2006

Goodbye 2006, I’m Going to Miss You!

By Mark Evans | Published: December 31, 2006
I’m not one for predictions (I’ll leave that exercise for folks like Peter Cashmore and Tony Hung) so I’ll focus on the year that was. The highlight was the birth of my son, Elias, whose arrival managed to interrupt the one movie (Bad Cop, Bon Cop) my wife and I actually went to a theatre [...]
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Google Gazing

By Mark Evans | Published: December 30, 2006
Why is it that Google is held to such high standards? Blake Ross (a Firefox co-founder and Google employee) wrote a lengthy and critical post a few days ago suggesting Google was being evil by trying to cross-promote some of its other products from its search results page. This prompted TechCrunch to pile on [...]
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The Web and Sydney: Urban Myth or Reality?

By Mark Evans | Published: December 30, 2006
In a story that sounds strangely familiar, a German tourist ended up in Sydney, Montana rather than Sydney, Australia after apparently mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site. It was four years ago that a British couple ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia rather than Australia’s Sydney after typing “Sydney” on a Web [...]
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Agonizing over Vista

By Mark Evans | Published: December 29, 2006
Rather than immediately jumping into the controversy over the rightness or wrongness of Microsoft’s offer of a free Vista-loaded laptop to dozens of bloggers, I decided to watch from the sidelines for awhile to gather my thoughts. (Disclosure: I’m one of those bloggers who was given a Ferrari laptop by Microsoft. My employer, b5media, plans [...]
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Instant iPod

By Mark Evans | Published: December 28, 2006
For some reason, the idea of buying an iPod from a vending machine strikes me as brilliant. The ubiquitous MP3 players have been available for sale at a few airports in the U.S. At Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, one vending machine has sold more than $55,000 worth of iPods in the past month, which is [...]
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Welcome to Your Global Neighbourhood

By Mark Evans | Published: December 28, 2006
Hoping to strike book publishing gold twice in a row, Shel Israel’s in the midst of writing Global Neighbourhoods, which looks at how the Web is creating digital/virtual communities “defined not by physical boundaries, but by common interests”. Here’s the most recent overview. Shel’s last book, Naked Conversations, (co-written with Robert Scoble) has become one [...]
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