Monthly Archives: November 2007

Google Continues to Fascinate

By Mark Evans | Published: November 27, 2007
We’re all obsessed with Google and find ourselves using a growing number of Google services on a regular basis. And we’re fascinated with Google because it’s a fascinating company. A couple of things popped today: 1. Google has decide to make a huge investment in exploring alternative energy sources such as solar, wind and geothermal. In [...]
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Canada: The Wireless (CDMA) Backwater

By Mark Evans | Published: November 27, 2007
Okay, it’s bad enough that Canada’s wireless market is an oligopoly, and that prices, including data, north of the border are higher than many places around the world. Now, Verizon is making Canadians feel even worse by announcing a new initiative that will give its customer the option to use “wireless devices, software and applications not [...]
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GPS Should be a Standard Laptop Feature

By Mark Evans | Published: November 27, 2007
My brother the musician had his apartment burglarized last week. The bad guys had probably cased the place because all that went missed was his MacBook and his girlfriend’s laptop. My brother isn’t oozing with extra cash so it’s not like he can just lay down a cool $1400 for a new MacBook. Needless to say, [...]
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What If No One Actually Visits Blogs?

By Mark Evans | Published: November 26, 2007
Last week, I installed a Wordpress plug-in, Open Web Analytics (aka OWA), that provides a pretty good snapshot of how much traffic a blog receives and how it gets there. OWA isn’t significantly different from Clicky, Mint, Google Analytics, etc. but, for whatever reason, it hammered home the message that the number of people visiting my [...]
Posted in Advertising/Marketing, Blogs | 11 Comments

Weekly Wrap

By Mark Evans | Published: November 24, 2007
Stuff that caught my eye this week…. 1. A-lister blogger Fred Wilson complained about Techmeme going mainstream and his disappearance off the Techmeme 100. This prompted a couple commenters to recommend alternatives such as TechWatching and popurls. I’m sure there are others. If you know some, pipe up. 2. Anyone really believe Facebook could get into the [...]
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Facebook’s Most Useful Feature

By Mark Evans | Published: November 23, 2007
For all the recent hullabaloo about Facebook removing the “is” from a person’s status updates, the fact of the matter is that the “is” is Facebook’s most useful feature. (You’re still with me, right? And just to be crystal clear, the issue is on removing the word “is” rather than the status update box.) Huh? While you [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 | 6 Comments
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