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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Does Anyone Want BCE?
In the last week, two of the potential suitors for BCE have been dropping like flies. The latest is Telus, which issued a short two-sentence statement yesterday that the “inadequacies of BCE’s bid process did not make it possible for Telus to submit an offer”. Couple of comments: first, I have no idea what that [...]
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Internet Radio Goes Silent
If you want to see – and hear – what the future of Internet radio could soon be like, check out LAUNCHcast, Pandora or hundreds of other online stations today. What you’ll hear is nothing. The fledgling industry, which has provided millions of people with a new and exciting way to listen and discover new [...]
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What’s an Internet Rock Star? Ask Will Pate.
Will Pate, who just agreed to come on board as the editor for b5’s new Internet rockstar channel, provides a lengthy – and colourful – explanation about the channel’s focus. My favourite sentence is this: “An internet rockstar is someone who doesn’t surf the series of tubes, they shred it. They have street cred. Their [...]
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Simple Way to Find Web 2.0 Apps
I few years ago, I co-founded a company called Blanketware that aimed to make it easy to do things online as opposed to using the Web as a place to read stuff. Our original service was based on the tagline “I want [fill in the blank]“. Sadly, the business was ahead of its time – [...]
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LinkedIn vs. Facebook? Not Really
There’s lots of buzz about LinkedIn opening up its API to outside developers – and the inevitable comparisons with Facebook, which pulled off the same stunt a couple weeks ago. It has caused some people such as my friend, Mathew Ingram, to wonder if LinkedIn and Facebook are competing, and if LinkedIn stands a chance [...]
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iPhone Mania!