Monthly Archives: January 2007

What’s Technorati?

By Mark Evans | Published: January 31, 2007
There’s a lot of buzz today about Technorati’s new now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t Digg-like tool called WTF (Steve Rubel captured screen shots before the service was pulled down). You can get a variety of takes on WTF from folks such as Mathew Ingram and Mr. Arrington but what struck me about WTF (other than the, well, colourful [...]
Posted in Main Page, Search Engines | 1 Comment

Web 2.0 Entering the Mainstream

By Mark Evans | Published: January 31, 2007
Has Web 2.0 reached the tipping point where it’s about to stumble into the mainstream? Read/WriteWeb’s Alex Iskold believes this is about to happen based on the activities of mainstream media such as Time and the NYT that are enthusiastically embracing tools such as RSS, deli.ico.us and Digg. “It appears that we are nearing a [...]
Posted in Main Page, Media, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments

Stating the (Wireless) Obvious

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2007
According to Moody’s, Canada’s wireless market is “an oligopoly”. And, not surprisingly, prices are twice as high as the U.S., which has caused market penetration (56%) to lag behind the U.S. (76%) Stop the presses, you mean Canada’s wireless carriers aren’t aggressively battling each other for business by offering consumers attractive deals? You mean all [...]
Posted in Main Page, Wireless | 3 Comments

How to Generate Vista Buzz: Spend $500M on Ads

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2007
Vista is a nice upgrade from Windows XP but it’s hardly a ground-shaking product even after five years of development and 50 million lines of code. The lack of enthusiasm has been muted (highlighted by the WSJ’s Walter Mossberg who described it as “worthy, but largely unexciting product”. So what can Microsoft do to get people [...]
Posted in Advertising/Marketing, Main Page, Microsoft | 5 Comments

Plagarism is Alive and, Sadly, Well

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2007
Wordpress boss Matt Mullenweg believes spam is one of the blogosphere’s biggest threats but another increasingly troubling issue is plagiarism. We’re not talking about people taking the ideas of other bloggers but outright theft of entire posts or passages. A recent example is The Client Side, which had its posts ripped off without attribution or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | 10 Comments

LinkedIn Cashing In

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2007
LinkedIn is one of those rare Web 2.0 companies – it has a business model (sponsorships, subscriptions, advertising) and it’s profitable, it’s become a highly useful tool for more than nine million users, and built a loyal following given all the LinkedIn requests that hit my in-box. So, it’s no surprise the company has raised [...]
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