Monthly Archives: February 2008

Why Can’t Broadband be Free Too?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 25, 2008
Chris “The Long Tail” Anderson has an excellent story in Wired – “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business” – that pushes forward the concept that “freeconomics” is taking over the Internet as the technologies that power the Internet become increasingly less expensive. Here’s his thesis in a nutshell: “It’s now clear that practically everything [...]
Posted in Media | 11 Comments

Can IE8 Neuter Firefox?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 24, 2008
So, IE8 ready to be unleashed into private beta. Question: will IE8 be able to fend off Firefox, which now has now has more than 15% market share? Firefox has a few key elements going for it: momentum, a great brand and a thriving ecosystem happy to develop extensions/add-ons to make Firefox make useful. As well, the [...]
Posted in Browsers, Browsers/Firefox | 2 Comments

The Facebook Fatigue “Story” is Getting Tired

By Mark Evans | Published: February 23, 2008
Not sure about you but the whole Facebook Fatigue story is tiring. Any time there’s a smidgen of evidence that Facebook’s growth is poised to stall or slow, the Facebook Fatigue bandwagon gets rolling again. Why? Well, I think almost everyone is waiting for Facebook to show signs of weakness because there’s nothing like reporting that the [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

Alert: Bloggers in Frenzy over Apparent Facebook Fatigue!

By Mark Evans | Published: February 22, 2008
All hands on deck, all hands on deck: the blogosphere is threatening to go overboard amid doom and gloom reports the number of Facebook users in the U.S. – gasp! – fell in January by 800K (according to comScore) to 33.9 million users from a month earlier. Is Facebook officially OVER? Has Facebook Fatigue finally HAPPENING? Should Mark [...]
Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

Google’s Flawed MSFT/YHOO Strategy

By Mark Evans | Published: February 22, 2008
Since its inception, Google has exuded an aura of cool, calm and collected. This obviously comes from top as Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have reputations as the confident, pragmatic and ambitious co-captains of the S.S. Google. So, it seems strange that Google has come across looking so scattered and frazzled in reaction to Microsoft’s [...]
Posted in Google | 3 Comments

Another Model for the Music Biz

By Mark Evans | Published: February 21, 2008
Mathew Ingram, friend and fellow mesh conference organizer, has an interesting story in today’s Globe & Mail about how talented Canadian singer Kathleen Edwards is auctioning a 160GB iPod on eBay that contains her entire library of recorded music with the proceeds going to the Alicia Ross Memorial Fund. Here’s a description of what the auction [...]
Posted in Music | 1 Comment
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