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Monthly Archives: December 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Venture Capital 6 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Google 3 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Music Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Browsers 2 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Blog Services, Blogs 2 Comments






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