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Paul’s glamour shot is gracing the pages of StartupNorth. The man loves his hardware! No really. He does. I will have to write up a little blog post about the Idée cluster. But in the meantime, drop by and read Jevon’s MacDonald piece. Vive Idée! and thank you Jevon – yes, we are up to … Continue reading The visual search King
52% of Canadians don’t think they would be able to tell the difference between real and pirated software. This post from Amber has left me speechless: well I was laughing so hard I almost spit out my coffee. They must have interviewed aliens. I am sure. Not very smart aliens that is. Continue reading Dumb Canadians?
Google is projected by Wall Street to have annual revenue of $15.7 billion in 2008 and $19 billion in 2009. But the ambitions are higher–more like $100 billion in annual revenue. The big question: How will Google get there?Larry Dignan tells us. Continue reading The Google $100 Billion roadmap
MaryJo on Microsoft’s new Live Search: 5 take aways: Microsoft’s search index is a lot bigger now Live Search’s relevancy is noticeably improved. Microsoft is focusing on improving search in four verticals with this release. These are: shopping, entertainment, health and local/maps. Microsoft is sticking to its plans to do a major spring and a … Continue reading New Live Search
From sunset at 7:03 pm on Saturday, September 29, to sunrise at 7:14 am on Sunday, September 30, 2007, Toronto will be bustling with activity as thousands experience a full night of contemporary art and performance in three zones across the city. I will be focusing on Zone C – the area near my home … Continue reading Nuit Blanche
Photo-sharing website, Slide.com grew by 228% between 5 May 2007 and 22 September 2007, overtaking Flickr during the week ending 8 September 2007 in the New Zealand market. Slide.com ranked at second position in the Hitwise Entertainment – Photography industry closely behind Photobucket with respective shares of 14.44% and 15.5% for the week ending 22 … Continue reading Not Sliding in NZ
Photos and blogs in action. Continue reading The Burma Protests
Joel Spolsky: I have about 236 stupid ideas a week, and luckily, I don’t usually act on them. A couple of summers ago, however, I did. Here’s what happened. Joel Spolsky’s adventure in the Fog Creek fun house! Continue reading Printer Bloodshed!
User Generated Credit that isVia StockPhotoTalk: UgcDb.com seeks to be the source for behind the scenes credits for user generated content. The site brings together aspiring actors, directors, and content creators to help legitimatize and publicize their contributions and provide a mechanism for others to get started in the UGC space. Over at the Convergence … Continue reading Credit!
Some of the trends: Semantic Web, Artificial Intelligence, Web Sites as Web Services Continue reading 10 Future Web Trends