Monthly Archives: May 2008

Net Neutrality Finally Rears Ugly Head in Canada

By Mark Evans | Published: May 31, 2008
At one time, Canada was among the world leaders in Internet access, ranking second beyond South Korea in broadband penetration. Those days now seem like a distance memory as Canada moves ever closer to becoming a second-tier online country that discourages innovation. Case in point is network neutrality, a debate that has raged in the U.S. but [...]
Posted in ILEC News, Analysis | 13 Comments

How Do You Hire Better and Smarter?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 30, 2008
During the mesh conference last week, it was exciting to be the emcee for 15 Minutes of Fame – where three entrepreneurs each day get five minutes to talk about what their startups are doing and why they’ll be successful. With only five minutes to present, their focus was spent on the product/service they were developing. [...]
Posted in M&A | 12 Comments

Some Geek Goodness

By Mark Evans | Published: May 29, 2008
Here’s a shout out to the Little Geeks Foundation, philanthropic organization that collects, refurbishes and re-distributes donated free home computers (and Internet access) to underprivileged children in Toronto For those of wondering whether to buy a new MacBook or MacBook Pro or whether Vista is worth the investment, Little Geeks provides some healthy and much-need perspective. On [...]
Posted in Main Page | 1 Comment

Breaking Out Blogger “Pay”

By Mark Evans | Published: May 29, 2008
Fred Wilson sparked a nice conversation about how many bloggers get “paid” when people leaving comments, and how this payment system is breaking down as blog content and comments becomes splattered over the Web through services such as Friendster and Shyftr. While the idea of “blogger” and “getting paid” are an oxymoron to the vast majority [...]
Posted in Blogs | 4 Comments

Leapin’ Leopards: Another Update

By Mark Evans | Published: May 28, 2008
It’s only been seven months since Leopard leapt onto the scene but Apple’s now on its third major update with the release of OSX 10.5.3 (Note: There really should be names associated with these updates to give them some more marketing appeal because 10.5.3 does nothing to capture the imagination!) Coming in at a whopping 450 [...]
Posted in Apple/iPod | 2 Comments

Loren, You’re Wrong About Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: May 28, 2008
Now, I’m not one for poking a wasp’s nest (been there, done that!) but Lorne Feldman is wrong about Twitter. His post explaining why people tolerate Twitter’s up-and-down service features wide, sweeping generalizations, highlighted by the fact he believes Twitter users are frustrated bloggers with no readers and no comments, or people who are just bored [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 | 12 Comments
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