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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Social Networks the Latest Music Biz Threat
After waging a fierce and concerted battled against peer-to-peer networks and people who have used them over the past decade, the music industry has a new enemy that’s threatening its economic model: social networks.
Apparently, social networks such as MySpace and BeBo have emerged as a new and popular way to distribute music – albeit by [...]
Posted in Apple/iPod, Music 4 Comments
Got a Web Host!
Just an update on my search for a new Web host for a new – and terribly exciting! – Wordpress blog I’m launching soon with my brother, Sean. After a lot of great suggestions, I decided on A Small Orange. ASO users were impressed with its customer service, and its prices are extremely reasonable. Thanks [...]
Posted in Aside 7 Comments
NowPublic Raises $10.6M
Over the past couple of years, citizen journalism has become a growing part of the media landscape – and one of the leading players has been Vancouver-based NowPublic.
The company’s profile should get a huge boost amid news it has raised $10.6-million in private equity from Rho Ventures, Brightspark and GrowthWorks. The deal comes just over [...]
Posted in Media, Venture Capital Leave a comment
Milk 2.0?
Is there anything more frustrating than pouring milk into a steaming cup of morning coffee only to discover the milk’s gone bad? You’d think a milk maker looking for a competitive edge would offer technology that would let you know how long your milk has left before it goes bad. I mean, if Coors can [...]
Posted in Aside 2 Comments
Web 2.0 and Short Attention Spans
I wrote a post earlier this week about being tired of Facebook.
An interesting comment was how my view on Facebook reflects the fact that as someone really involved with the Web (aka online way too much!), I was hungry to try out new services/applications, and at the same time, impatient to move on to the [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 4 Comments






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