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Raincity Studios Acquires Bryght
2007-11-22 00:25:00 The title almost speaks for itself, doesn't it? In the last few months, I've felt a certain disconnect from the events and happenings of the local Tech Industry, and perhaps not having heard anything about this is a sign that I truly am out of touch - or it means that this was a fairly ... More About: Main , Studios
Internet Brownouts?
2007-11-21 18:27:00 Internet usage across the world has been increasing rapidly. More and more people are visiting iTunes, watching YouTube video clips, and connecting with long lost neighbours and Elementary school friends on Facebook. The frustrations that users experienced in the late 90's and early in 2000 that helped with the Tech Bust are no longer an ... More About: Internet , Main
Facebook not so dominant
2007-11-14 17:48:00 Last month there were reports about Facebook 's numbers decreasing in September. I didn't put too much on one month's decrease, attributing it to the return to school by the typical Facebook user, but there is more buzz this month with Facebook's numbers seemingly flattening. The traffic did increase from September to October, but October's numbers ... More About: Main , Mina , Domin
Three Steps to Improving Vista: focus, Focus, FOCUS
2007-11-14 17:12:00 I'm obviously not the only user who has been disappointed with the latest OS release from Microsoft. While Mac users have been graced with the recent release of Leopard, PC users have been left to suffer with Vista . I hate to harp on it, because I think there were good intentions and attempts to improve ... More About: Main , Focus , Steps
Web 2.0 Tips, Tricks, and Resources
2007-11-14 01:11:00 I'm definitely getting tired of the term Web 2.0. I actually have started to cringe every time I hear someone say an idea isn't 2.0, a site looks very 1.0, or anything similar or derived from those statements. Web 2.0 is a philosophy more than a standard, and unfortunately, the term has been bastardized and ... More About: Resources , Tips , Tricks , Main
Leopard Roars, Vista's Vile
2007-11-09 18:04:00 I have yet to experience the newest Mac OS X release personally, but there have been (almost) nothing but good things said about the release of Leopard . Many of the over 300 new features are probably unnoticed, but what is the key to Mac's success with these releases? Their attention to - or acceptance of - the ... More About: Main , Roar
How to tell if a web page sucks
2007-11-02 20:42:00 While this used to be a subjective process, it has actually been turned into a science with an easy to follow flowchart of yes/no questions. It's cute and clever, which always gets bonus points, and it seems as though the site has been around for 10 years, which should give it a lot of cred. ... More About: Page , Main , Sucks
The 10 biggest web annoyances
2007-11-02 17:07:00 I'm a big fan of these things, but this one has added appeal. I can't really improve on the words written in this article on Computerworld: In its relatively short life, the World Wide Web has already made many of our most mundane, tedious tasks quicker and easier to perform. But there are still a surprising number of ... More About: Main , Anno
The simplest steps to search engine ranking
2007-11-02 16:38:00 It's probably the single most asked question - how do I rank high on Google (or any other search engine). While I've said it before, there's no clear cut, fool proof way to rankings, there are some simple steps that you can follow. The first step, as obvious as it may sound, is to submit your ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Main , Engine , Ranking
Readability before SEO
2007-11-01 23:51:00 Earlier today I posted about Abalone Designs, and pointed to an interesting article on the site. One of the statements really stuck in my mind: Your web site can be optimized for the most competitive keyword in the world […] and it will do absolutely nothing whatsoever for your business if your web site is ... More About: Main
Abalone Designs - A Canadian SEO Company
2007-11-01 17:02:00 From their changing headers, all pics that were personally taken by individuals at Abalone Designs , to their offer of Free Web site Analysis, Abalone Designs is a different kind of company. In an effort to thwart corruption and scams, Courtney Heard started Abalone Designs in 2001, and the offer of free website analysis is her ... More About: Company , Main , Canadian , Adia
Opening up on Google's OpenSocial
2007-10-31 17:21:00 It's been mentioned several times on several different blogs, including here, that one of Google's attempts to thwart - or responses to - Facebook's open platform was to out open Facebook. More and more information about the platform continues to trickle out, but a fairly in-depth report was released yesterday on Techcrunch. I've adopted a kind ... More About: Main , Opening , OpenSocial
Microsoft Makes Macro-waves
2007-10-27 00:47:00 Following up on the recently announced Facebook investment announcement - which doesn't necessarily make Facebook worth $15 billion, Microsoft has now released that they've reached the 88 million units sold for their Vista operating system and posted their strongest Q1 in eight years. Despite being skeptical about Microsoft's ability to monetize the Facebook deal, Paul Kedrosky ... More About: Main , Macro , Waves , Aves
Mac Leopard (OS X V10.5)
2007-10-27 00:23:00 In recent years, Apple could almost be described by two things: turtlenecks and iPods. This year, the iPhone was added to the mix, and we saw another addition to their family of felines, Mac OS X 10.5, better known as Leopard . The family of Apple felines has now reached six, starting with Cheetah, moving to Puma, ... More About: Main
Facebook + MS Funds = overvalued?
2007-10-25 23:35:00 I'm not saying that Facebook isn't a valuable property, and given the interest that rivals of the software giant had in Facebook, it would make sense to take an 'at all costs' approach to the recently announced round of investment, but giving the prince of social networks (yes, MySpace still reigns king of the jungle) ... More About: Main , Funds
Office Communications Server 2007
2007-10-18 04:17:00 Having spent the better part of 2007 contracting for a company with several different offices, I've gotten a greater appreciation for smooth and seamless lines of communication. Just last week, I was on a call with a co-worker, which we both agreed was long overdue, and both mentioned that despite numerous E-mails, IM's, and meetings it was ... More About: Office , Main , Server , Communications , Communications Server
Top Tech Blunders
2007-10-18 01:55:00 Technology has helped us in many ways, but at the same time, Technology has been the source of many-a-headache, too. And because of those headaches that we've all endured over the years, it's nice to see the professionals run into some of these same problems. Computerworld has come up with a list of Technology's Most Mortifying ... More About: Tech , Main , Blunder , Lund
Back-to-school Facebook Blues?
2007-10-11 18:24:00 With so much buzz surrounding the site, especially since the opening up to include non-student users and the release of the API earlier this year, it seems a little deflating and almost like a lie to believe the latest comscore numbers for Facebook - traffic is down. While some may question this, I think it's quite ... More About: Blues , School , Main , Back
SEOMoz links
2007-10-03 01:34:00 SEOmoz is quickly becoming a regular site in my web-travels, and in the last week has been the source of several interesting articles. (Disclaimer: Although I have never really met or talked to anyone from SEOmoz, SuperbHosting.net, a company/site I contract for, is a sponsor of their site.) The site, as you might have guessed, focusses ... More About: Links , Main
Fad-book?
2007-10-03 01:23:00 It's interesting when you have a feedreader of sorts and get to see two articles that are almost contradicting each other; today on Mashable, Ballmer Comments on Facebook and Facebook boasts about International growth. While I can appreciate that Facebook is an almost unstoppable force (that allows them to boast about their International growth), I ... More About: Main , Book
Feel Through Someone Else's Eyes
2007-09-28 23:06:00 I was introduced to a site, See What You Feel , by Catherine Chanse, a student at California State University, East Bay Multimedia Graduate Program. When describing their project, she offered: See What You Feel, is focused on exploring the visual patterns that emerge when people of diverse backgrounds (in regards to country of origin, ethnicity, age, gender) ... More About: Eyes , Main , Some
Yahoo! Search Results
2007-09-28 22:20:00 For a company that is probably struggling to find any sort of good news, this type of a headline has to get them smiling: Yahoo tops Google in quality of searches, study says While Google dominates market share, Yahoo gets more users to click on results While the article notes that Google is, by far, the search leader, ... More About: Results , Search , Main , Yahoo search
Covert Comment Spam
2007-09-27 18:13:00 Yesterday, I was reading an article talking about a new kind of blog comment spam, something that I have definitely come across lately, and was intrigued by the comments responding to the article. The individuals reading the blog were all aware of the situation, and had some good suggestions as to why this new type of spam would ... More About: Spam , Main , Comment , Vert
Flickr Helps Fight Crime?
2007-09-25 19:56:00 Normally I probably wouldn't post about this and would simply enjoy the thought of some turkey who stole computers getting caught without even knowing, but the local connection cannot be ignored. About a week ago, some laptops were stolen from Workspace, a shared work environment in Downtown Vancouver. Crime s like these are typically difficult to ... More About: Fight , Main , Flickr , Rime
Top 30 Canadian Marketing & Advertising Blogs
2007-09-13 19:45:00 Tipped off by Jordan Behan's article on Tell Ten Friends, I'm happy to announce (and promote) the release of the Top 30 Canadian Marketing & Advertising Blogs on Scott Weisbrod's blog, Experience Planner. From the post: AdAge started tracking the top 150+ marketing and advertising blogs. As of today, they were tracking 427 blogs. Read about the methodology ... More About: Main
Handi Mobility
2007-09-13 02:20:00 Another one of the people/companies that I was introduced to at Vancouver Barcamp, Handi Mobility is exactly what the name implies: a combination of conveniently accessible content available through your cellphone. The site currently has two (public?) offerings, MyBus and Youth Talent Showdown. When I talked to Igor Faletski, he seemed more eager to talk about MyBus, so ... More About: Main
Vacant Ready
2007-09-07 23:31:00 In the weeks since BarCamp Vancouver 2007 and the last nPost.com/JayAndSilentRob.com Networking Event (with a new one already announced for early October), I've been absolutely swamped and had a difficult time posting about the news, events, and most importantly, the people and sites that I was introduced to in the month of August. One of those ... More About: Main , Vacant , Ready , Cant
Future Web Trends
2007-09-07 01:32:00 One of the reasons we started this blog was to help prove that we really did have an understanding of what was going on and could predict or make educated guesses on what was happening, what could be happening, and what should be happening with the Internet and Internet technologies. In the last year-and-a-half, we've ... More About: Trends , Future , Main
nPost.com/JayAndSilentRob.com Networking Event
2007-09-07 01:12:00 We had a great response to August's Networking Event , and one of the suggestions was to make it happen more often! Nathan (nPost.com), Rob Lewis (TechVibes), and Rob and I have put our heads together and come up with dates for the next two events: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 & Wednesday, November 28th, 2007. Here are the details for ... More About: Main , Lent , Workin
Silverlight presents tafiti - the web just evolved
More articles from this author:2007-08-22 01:26:00 I remember reading all the hype surrounding Microsoft's release of Expressions Studio and the release of Silverlight , and even made a post about it, alluding to the inevitable crash course with Adobe that Microsoft had put itself on. Although made very casually at the end of the post, the most important point of the article was probably: it ... More About: Presents , Main , Tafiti , Resent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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