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Archive for December, 2007

Blogging Resolutions for ‘08

In 2008, I’m looking to:
1. Blog more because you have to feed the beast…and how else can you keep up with people such as Mathew Ingram, Om Malik, TechCrunch, Robert Scoble, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, etc.?
2. Blog less, and focus on quality as opposed to quantity, and unique thoughts/ideas rather than jumping on the blogging bandwagon every [...]

Canada Needs a Peter Thiel

If you’ve spent any time around the burgeoning DemoCamp, CaseCamp, BarCamp, mesh, et al scene in Toronto, one thing becomes obvious: there’s a lot of hard-working entrepreneurs desperately seeking a little venture capital.
These are people who have ideas and/or online services - some of them interesting - but aren’t able to commit themselves full-time and [...]

Google Isn’t God…But Addictive

A few years, I took a half-hearted attempt at giving up Microsoft (sort of like my terribly unsuccessful endeavor to become a vegetarian.)
It was a difficult task given I was using XP and Office but there was a sense of satisfaction in embracing Firefox and Thunderbird rather than IE and Outlook. These days, Google is [...]

Can the Music Industry be This Stupid?

Now, this is incredible…and incredibly unbelievable.
According to the Washington Post, the music industry has filed a lawsuit against Jeffrey Howell for copying 2,000 songs onto his computer - from CDs he owns. The RIAA alleges these are “unauthorized copies”.
It’s a move that smacks of desperation. It’s a move that will only further alienate consumers, who [...]

Facebook to Buy Netscape Assets?

Sad news from the browser world as AOL has finally decided to stop development of Netscape.
Actually, it’s not sad at all given Netscape has become irrelevant in recent years as usage as declined and Firefox has replaced it as the alternative to IE. It’s only sad because Netscape ruled the browser market once upon a [...]

Opportunity ‘08: the RSS Reader Market

In 2007, RSS took a huge step forward as it edged a little closer to becoming a mainstream tool. (Check out ReadWriteWeb’s in-depth overview of the year in RSS).
While Google Reader made a big splash and Bloglines remains a key player, the RSS reader market is still ripe with opportunity and, not surprisingly, there is [...]

All Aboard the Apple Express

Apple - $300 - so says Blogging Stocks.
Hard to believe that only three years ago, it was trading at $10.
Whether it’s Apple heading to $300 or Google going to $1000, there’s a lusty love affair happening with successful, high-profile tech stocks. But if this reminds you of the dot-com boom, you’re wrong because investors seem [...]

The Joys of Unsubscribing

As 2008 rolls around, I’ve been spending some of my holidays time tying up some loose ends.
One of them is cleaning out an inbox fueled/bogged down by multiple e-mail addresses and subscriptions to far too many newsletters. Although there are still a few still running wild, I’ve been on an aggressive newsletter unsubscribe campaign in [...]

Opportunity ‘08: Vertical Blog Search

It looks like IceRocket is taking another shot at establishing a foothold in the blog search market amid a new look and feel, according to Data Mining. IceRocket is best known for once having Mark Cuban as an investor but its turn in the spotlight was as short as Cuban’s dalliance in the business. (He [...]

Who’s Going to be the Apple of 2008?

No doubt, 2007 was the Year of the Apple (or the iPod/iPhone), although it was, in fact, the Year of the Pig.
And Henry Blodget decided to cap things off with an ultra-bullish post on why Apple will rock while Windows will wither on the vine, which I’m sure will generate lots of egg nog and [...]

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