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TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design
2007-06-14 21:51:00 While browsing one of Rob's favourite blogs, I came across an article that, on the surface, seemed really bland and missing something, but after following the link, ended up being the coolest thing I'd seen all month. The actual video that is being referenced provides some amazing possibilities (Note: I wasn't able to see the ... More About: Design , Technology , Entertainment , Main , Enter
Time for Tech Talent to Shine
2007-06-14 16:57:00 More and more articles I read are talking about the need for more more IT professionals, but the issue seems to be more real when I read it in one of those paper-based blogs you may have heard of, like an article by Gillian Shaw in the Vancouver Sun yesterday. Hitting a peak at the with ... More About: Time , Tech , Main , Shine , Talent
Microsoft vs. Adobe?
2007-06-14 00:28:00 As if the software giant didn't have enough battles to fight, they have chosen to expand their services to offer an Adobe -like suite of applications, Expression Studio. After the recent purchase of its #1 competitor, Macromedia and the accompanying suite of multimedia development applications, Adobe is in complete control of the market. In fact, it's ... More About: Microsoft , Main
Beating Down the Darkside
2007-06-06 22:19:00 Microsoft will, probably forever, maintain the title of The D arkside. Whether it was their aggressive actions in the 90's, their inability to maintain a connection to their supporters (which could easily be described as arrogance), or simply the refusal to be more open with their development, the moniker, despite having lost a lot of the ... More About: Main , Beat , Eating , Darkside
Security Needed for Security Chat
2007-06-06 01:34:00 Paul Kedrosky had a link to the comments to a post comparing Windows XP and Vista security. As mentioned in the Infectious Greed article, the article actually created intense back-and-forth banter within the comments of the article. The final comment that I've seen was made by Roger A. Grimes, who not only made some interesting points that go against the ... More About: Security , Chat , Main
Street Level Maps
2007-06-01 17:31:00 I guess this is another part of Amazon's portfolio that was overlooked, under utilized, and in the end, will probably be realized too late to capitlize on. Earlier this week, Google made waves with the announcement that they had added street-level imaging in some major cities in the United States with more cities to be added. ... More About: Main , Street , Maps
Microsoft's Milan No iPhone
2007-05-31 01:13:00 One of the first articles I read today was about Micro soft's 'Mila n ' computer, or more generally, about Microsoft's newest line of consumer products, surface computers. I read the article, as I was generally interested, but thought little more of the product until I ran into Paul Kedrosky's article about the release: the main thing the oversized ... More About: Iphone , Main
Killing Killer IT Skills
2007-05-29 21:14:00 In an article I wrote last week, I linked to an article on Computerworld that talked about dead and dying computer skills. There was an immediate backlash to the article, which resulted in this article, and it seems that the topic is anything but dead. Of course the whole idea behind the article is subjective ... More About: Main , Killer , Skills , Kill , Killing
Social Networking and the Enterprise
2007-05-29 21:02:00 A recent IDC Canada study on Canadian users and their habits with online social networking platforms has identified five distinct categories of social networking sites: friend, group general interest, dating, blogging, and media sharing. There are obviously sites that would span these categories, but I think most sites that span these categories would still have a primary ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Main , Social Network
Friday Links: FBI Security flaws, dying computer skills, and more
2007-05-26 02:25:00 I love the irony in seeing an article about a report on the FBI's internal security being somewhat lacking. With several movies having come out in the last little while about these types of agencies (The Good Shephard, The Departed) and a recent conversation about some of the classic computer-ish movies (Hackers, The Net), can ... More About: Security , Computer , Links , Main , Friday
Two Point Cisco
2007-05-23 17:35:00 Quickly following up on our article about what isn't Web 2.0 is a quick look at what is, or at least might be, included under the umbrella term. In an article on Computerworld, John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems Inc, talks about Web 2.0 technology and the way it has helped him improve his ability to ... More About: Main , Point
Two Dot Oh
2007-05-18 23:22:00 I remember over a year ago starting to look at things representative of the now-overused catch phrase, Web 2.0. From the incorporation of user generated content, coding with AJAX and/or Ruby on Rails, and a variety of other aspects of online development and standards that, in general, were aimed at improving the user experience. Along the ... More About: Main
Digital Media sans DRM
2007-05-17 17:18:00 Amazon's announcement that the online retailer will begin to offer digital music should come as no suprise to anyone. The company has a huge reach, users well versed in electronic transaction (being the primary focus of the company), and the market is anything but saturated. The big news that comes with the announcement is that ... More About: Media , Main , Digital , Digi
nPost Event
2007-05-10 18:08:00 So, last night's event probably didn't go EXACTLY how we had wanted it to go. For those of you who didn't get the scoop, we normally have a little room up the stairs in the back with a projector, and that was to be used to show what Rob has been toiling away on in ... More About: Event , Main , Vent
Monday Links
2007-05-07 20:00:00 A few links that will make for good reading on a Monday morning, afternoon, or some time later in the week even. From Computerworld, a website I've mentioned several times in recent posts, we have an article about the Microsoft, Yahoo! rumours. Check that out here or this one from ITBusiness.ca. Another article from Computerworld ... More About: Links , Main , Onda
Network Research
2007-05-02 18:52:00 With more and more companies increasing their dependence on their network, network security, and all other things relating to this internal bloodline, it is of course important to stay on top of everything that is happening in the industry relating to that topic. An article on Network world looks at 15 of the most interesting projects ... More About: Research , Main
News bITs
2007-04-19 18:06:00 In an effort to stay more connected to Canadian IT news and expand the breadth of the information I filter through, I signed up, several months ago, to ITBusiness' newsletter. I appreciate the coverage of Canadian topics (and choose to ignore the fact that most articles center around Ontario and ignore half the country), and ... More About: News , Main , Bits
Net the Truth
2007-04-17 17:00:00 I get a great assortment of forwards, some new, some old, and some that I probably wish I'd never seen before and will spend WAY too much money discussing with my therapist, but we won't go there. However, one of the frequent ones we all probably receive are little helpful tips, like margarine isn't good ... More About: Truth , Ruth , The Truth
Microsoft's Macro-fights
2007-04-17 00:20:00 The continuing competition between Google and Microsoft has led both companies to make several drastic moves. Google made a huge effort to secure exclusive rights to the MySpace search, and to counter, Microsoft's contract with Facebook for the equivalent rights is suggested to have been written at a loss to the software giant. Microsoft releases ... More About: Mac , Fights , Fight , Soft
TechSued
2007-04-16 08:18:00 It was only a matter of time before something like this popped up for Tech Crunch. I'm sure there have been all sorts of different negative responses and probably even some nasty threats to Michael Arrington, either on TechCrunch or his personal blog, CrunchNotes, but reading over the lawsuit by Shannon Terry, Rivals.com, on TechCrunch, it has definitely ... More About: Sued
Monday Links and Musings
2007-04-09 23:16:00 In an effort to avoid repeating the previous, postless week, which could have easily started off by pointing out the April Fool's fun had by Michael Arrington and Google (I refuse to link to them now!), I thought a nice way to start out this week would be to provide some interesting stories that have ... More About: Musings , Links , Link , Sing , Monday
Amazon's S3
2007-03-30 18:18:00 Amazon is one of the few companies that has managed to maintain itself from the 90's Internet boom, and has created an interesting collection of Internet properties, including Alexa, which I talked about earlier this week, and S3 (Simple Storage Service). Rob and I (I'm positive Rob found S3, but I THINK I stumbled on Alexa) ... More About: Amazon
MS Average
2007-03-29 18:41:00 I'm not a huge fan of the competition, but I do give respect where respect is due, and Google and Apple definitely deserve respect for what they've accomplished in the last few years. I think it's been easy for people to jump on their bandwagons, and I don't think their offerings are as strong as ... More About: Rage , Vera , Average
F-Alexa-ing Corporate Muscle
2007-03-29 02:50:00 When I first started to become more heavily intersted and involved in the Internet and Internet technologies, Alex a was one of the sites that I latched on to. The site provided a reasonable, free way of gauging the success of a site, and I definitely didn't have the resources to call on the services of ... More About: Corporate , Alexa , Muscle , Rate
Online Identity
2007-03-29 00:30:00 Online identity is something that will continue to get more and more serious; identity theft, fraud, and online predators are just a few of the reasons that an identity, or rather confirmation of an identity, is so important. You might remember a credit card commercial (Visa, I believe), where the user puts his head through ... More About: Online , Line , Identity
Vancouver 2.0
2007-03-23 02:04:00 Rob recently arranged for us to participate in an article on Web 2.0 in Infamous Magazine by Andrew Rideout, online communications coordinator for Backbone Magazine. To read the article in it's released form, I have created a .pdf of the article and put it online here. Otherwise, here are the questions that were posed to me and my ... More About: Vancouver
Rob's Links for the Week
2007-03-23 01:23:00 Almost every day, Rob and I, via IM, will talk about an amazing range of different topics. Sometimes, I even have something that Rob isn't already aware of, but mostly, he's an extra layer of content processing that I've come to enjoy. In the last couple days, he's had a Flash game, two animations, and ... More About: Links , Link , Week
Budgeting for IT, DST
2007-03-21 18:47:00 A couple of things making headlines lately are the Daylight Savings Time change and the newly released Canadian Federal budget. The Daylight Savings Time change has affected almost every company and many IT professionals were not only caught off guard by the change, they were unprepared and left pointing the finger, usually at Microsoft. While the software giant should ... More About: Budget , Budgeting
Yahoo pipes (beta) hits wall!
2007-03-17 20:16:00 So I finally got around to trying Yahoo ! Pipes, and my first impression was good, I could copy other peoples pipes and change a variable and call it my own… But like any good developer, I wanted more, so here is the run down. I wanted to run through my Blog RSS feed and do a content analysis to get some great keywords. Then ... More About: Beta , Wall , Yahoo pipes , Hits
techFive - Top Five Tech Stories from the Week of 03.16.07
More articles from this author:2007-03-17 19:03:00 5. gPhone - It had to happen. Google wasn't going to let Apple and Microsoft battle this one out on their own, especially when this creates a situation that a piece of hardware can solely run G-brand applications. My only concern is how long Google will have the darn thing released before they take it out ... More About: Stories , Tech , Tories , Week , Stor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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