Archive for January, 2007
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007There’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 [...]
Web 2.0 Entering the Mainstream
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Has 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 [...]
Stating the (Wireless) Obvious
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007According 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 [...]
How to Generate Vista Buzz: Spend $500M on Ads
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007Vista 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 [...]
Plagarism is Alive and, Sadly, Well
Monday, January 29th, 2007Wordpress 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 [...]
LinkedIn Cashing In
Monday, January 29th, 2007LinkedIn 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 [...]
Plagarism is Alive and Well
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Wordpress 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 [...]
Porn for Mobile Warrior
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Featuring one of the best headlines I’ve seen in a long time - “Is that your cellphone in your pocket…?”, the National Post had a story a couple days ago about wireless carrier Telus quietly offering downloads of pornographic photos and videos for about $3 or $4 a shot You’ve got to love the explanation [...]
The Monetization of User-Generated Content
Sunday, January 28th, 2007So, YouTube’s going to start sharing the wealth, eh? I guess it’s easy to feel generous after you’ve pocked $1.65-billion from Google, and never have to work again. There’s lot of chatter about why YouTube is doing it (check out Scott Karp and Nick Carr for a small taste) but the bigger and far more [...]
I was Hacked!
Saturday, January 27th, 2007Computer hackers, viruses and phishing scams attack other people, right? It doesn’t affect the tech savvy, right? Well, I discovered the hard way that anyone is vulnerable to bad people online. It started about a week ago when someone tried to move a large amount of money out of my bank account. Fortunately, our tenant [...]
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