Archive for March, 2007
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007There’s a sucker born every day..and today, it’s me after I bought into Mike Arrington’s post that TechCrunch had acquired Fuckedcompany.com! If you could see my face after falling for this day-early April Fool’s trick, it’s beet-red. At least I’m not alone - Dave Winer was fooled as well.
Is Facebook Going Mainstream?
Saturday, March 31st, 2007I thought Facebook was used by college/university students but I’ve come across a growing number of people in the tech world who have set up Facebook profiles. Rather than giving you a business card or telling you to search for them on LinkedIn, they offer you a link to Facebook. What’s going on here? VentureBeat [...]
Is Google Too Powerful?
Friday, March 30th, 2007BusinessWeek asks the question. What do you think? (Personally, if a better mousetrap came along, I’d jump on it).
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Hey, We’re Talking Tech
Friday, March 30th, 2007An interesting week in the world of tech, which gave Duncan Stewart and I lots of fodder for this week’s Talking Tech podcast. (Kevin was on a hardship assignment as he had to attend some conference in Orlando). Perhaps the strangest - and most troubling - story was Kathy Sierra’s blog post about the death [...]
Why Web 2.0 Thrives
Friday, March 30th, 2007Whether or not you like the term Web 2.0, this is no doubt it has captured the imagination of the tech community for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the biggest is the barriers to entry are so low, especially compared with four or five years ago when dot-com companies burned through millions of dollars to [...]
Loren Feldman Coming to Mesh
Thursday, March 29th, 2007We had to offer him a box of Timbits and a bucket of KFC but Loren Feldman has agreed to be a panelist at mesh. Needless to say, we’re stoked to have one of the world’s leading, opinionated and funniest video bloggers.
Will KKR be Michael Sabia’s Legacy?
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Since taking over as BCE Inc.’s CEO in 2001, Michael Sabia has had a a pretty rough go of it trying to restructure the company amid increasingly fierce competition. Five years into the job, you have to wonder what Sabia’s legacy will be. Despite a lot of unglamorous blocking and tackling, he hasn’t created much [...]
A Code for Blogging?
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007In light of the death threats against Kathy Sierra, a number of people - notably Tim O’Reilly - are calling for a code of conduct for bloggers. In theory, it’s a good idea but, man, it seems like a monster to create unless you’re talking about really broad guidelines such as “Don’t Be Evil”.
The GPhone..and then the GHome?
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007So the mystery of the GPhone has finally sorta been solved - and as Engadget suggests it’s a phone with Google, not a Google phone. It turns out the mysterious Asian hardware supplier is LG Electronics, which will load up a bunch of Google services (Google Maps, GMail and Blogger) into millions of mobile phones. [...]
Canada’s Murky Local Phone Rules
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007For anyone interested in telecom competition in Canada, Fort McMurray, Alberta could be a fascinating case study on what the future holds. As the town booms because of all the oil activity, Shaw (Canada’s second-largest cableco) has emerged as a major telephone service provider to the point where Telus applied to the CRTC to deregulate [...]
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