Archive for April, 2008
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008After spending far too many hours last week looking at Wordpress themes and plugins, it got me thinking that what makes Wordpress such a great blogging platform is the ecosystem that has exploded around it.
There are 10s of thousands of places where you get information about how to use Wordpress, and 10s of thousands of [...]
Attention, Digital Peasants: the iPhone is Coming
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008So, it’s been nearly a year since the iPhone was breathlessly unveiled. And in that time, it has become a smash hit…..but not in Canada.
Why? Because Canadians (aka digital peasants) can’t buy an iPhone in Canada because none of the carriers sell them.
But wait! There’s hope for us who live without. Rogers plans to introduce [...]
Does Length Suddenly Matter?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Here’s an observation that’s completely unscientific but, nevertheless, interesting.
At a time when Twitter - and its 140-character messages - is becoming all the rage (at least within the high-tech community, according to Kara Swisher), posts by some of the leading bloggers (TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Valley Insider, et al appear to be getting a lot longer. [...]
Akoha Raises $1.9M
Monday, April 28th, 2008More encouraging news from the Canadian tech start-up scene with Akoha raising $1.9-million in angel financing. (TechCrunch love can be found here.)
Congrats to Austin Hill, Alex Eberts and the Akoha team. Akoha’s investors include:
Investors include some of Canada’s most prominent business and technology leaders, including:
• David Chamandy, co-founder, Lavalife;
• John Bromley, Benefic Group.;
• [...]
Atta Go, Twitter!
Sunday, April 27th, 2008According to CNet, which is citing the infamous and notorious “source familiar with”, Twitter is close to raising $15-million to $20-million.
All I have to say is “Nice work, Twitter!”
It’s good to know that it’s still possible to raise gobs of venture capital on the basis of eyeballs/users as opposed to a business plan/revenue. It’s heartening [...]
Hard to Believe But…
Sunday, April 27th, 20081. The White Pages was delivered to my house yesterday. Who uses the White Pages anymore other than as a door stop?
2. Someone send me an invitation to be their friend on Pownce. First one I’ve seen in months!
3. The NYT has jumped on the iPhone is going to knock off the Blackberry story, which [...]
The Weekly Wrap
Saturday, April 26th, 2008A weekly wrap of the week that was on MET:
Highlights:
- The week started with an unveiling of sorts as my brother, Sean, and I talked about how we had been writing and trying to attract an audience to another blog, Four Reasons Why. Truth be told, it difficult to gain a following on the blogosphere [...]
Open for Business: Tripharbor
Friday, April 25th, 2008The entrepreneurial adventures of my friend, Stuart MacDonald, have taken a really exciting turn with the much-anticipated launch of Tripharbor.com (Tripharbour for all of us Canadians!)
Known for months as “Project X” while being developed, Tripharbor is a place where can research and book cruises, as well as connect with other cruising aficionados - and there [...]
Yahoo Wants its Groove Back
Friday, April 25th, 2008Yahoo is a fascinating story these days.
On one hand, it’s the subject of a hostile takeover bid from Microsoft that may or may not happen depending on which way the wind is blowing, each company’s most recent financial performance (Yahoo - okay; Microsoft - great), how Jerry Yang and/or Steve Ballmer feel when they get [...]
Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008It has been interesting to watch aggregation become a hot trend among the digerati as new players such as Friendfriend strive to provide people with ways to more easily manage all of their social networking activities.
In simple terms, it’s based on the concept of one-stop shopping. Why visit a number of different places (blogs, del.icio.us, [...]