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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Google Gazing
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 [...]
Posted in Google, Main Page 2 Comments
The Web and Sydney: Urban Myth or Reality?
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
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 [...]
Posted in Blogs, Main Page, Microsoft 9 Comments
Instant iPod
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 [...]
Posted in Apple/iPod, Main Page 2 Comments
Welcome to Your Global Neighbourhood
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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Goodbye 2006, I’m Going to Miss You!