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Happy Birthday to us!
2007-03-16 21:28:00 Quietly, JayAndSilentRob.com has reached an amazing milestone - 1 year of posts. A short clip from our first post: The internet, in a way, is like a whole new reality, and the Internet has entered into Web 2.0, a whole new level in development. So our blog, that will discuss the internet and the internet's trends, ... More About: Happy , Birthday , Birth , Happy Birthday
Mobile Search
2007-03-16 20:51:00 Integrating a desirable Internet experience onto a mobile platform or device is something that we discussed quite a bit on this blog in the last 6 months, and in an article earlier this week, we talked about the importance of search, especially to the big three, GYM (Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, an acronym I decided to adopt, ... More About: Mobile , Search , Mobi , Mobile Search , Bile
Extra-hot, Low Fat, Grande Media
2007-03-15 17:33:00 If there was any doubt in people's minds that there was huge potential in digital media, then the recent announcement by java-giant Starbucks (offering FREE COFFEE today from 10am - 12pm, March 15th) that their record label, Hear Music, will now look to sign their own musicians and sell their own albums through Starbucks stores ... More About: Media , Low fat , Grand , Extra , Xtra
The Google Code
2007-03-15 00:52:00 Tom Hanks would probably have a harder time tracking this one down, and I'm sure that Sergei and Larry would probably be at least as good a challenge as Paul Bettany, but they might not be as pale - but with payouts in the tens of millions for deciphering the search algorithm that drives search giant Googl e , it ... More About: Code , Google Code , The Go
The Anthropology of Web 2.0
2007-03-11 01:26:00 While we were down, one of the articles that Rob pointed me to was from our friend (one of AT LEAST ten, I'm sure) Jordan Behan. The clip was put together by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, who posted about the video here. It's an interesting video, and an interesting ... More About: Web 2 , The A , Web 2.0 , Ology
Daylight Savings Time (DST) Change
2007-03-09 04:39:02 It's funny how this seems to have sprung up on everyone so unexpectedly. Not only do I remember hearing about this nearly half a year ago (probably somewhere around the time that we were 'falling back'), I had read several different articles talking about the problems that would cause headaches for IT specialists. I've even ... More About: Change , Time , Daylight Savings , Light , Daylight
Blog Update
2007-03-09 04:39:02 We've been a bit absent the last couple of weeks, and I can't help but appreciate the irony of the last post that has been sitting on the blog; staring at me every time I go to the site is my #5, a cheeky shot at Rob to get our server issues taken care of. ... More About: Blog , Update , Fakta , Doof , The Lover
Home Computer
2007-03-01 16:33:04 I had this image sent to me, and it just seemed like a good one to post. The image was from a 1954 Popular Mechanics magazine. The original blurb on the image: Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However the needed ... More About: Computer , Home , Comp , Gathering
techFive - Top Five Tech Stories from the Week of 02.09.07
2007-03-01 16:33:04 5. Very Silent Rob - This post was actually made on-time last week, but due to server troubles, it wasn't posted. I was browsing our posts, and noticed that I had actually saved a draft, and this post was NOT lost forever, just 1/5th or 20% of it was lost. So… I will use this as ... More About: Stories , Tech , Tories , Week , Stor
techFive - Top Five Tech Stories from the Week of 02.02.07
2007-03-01 16:33:04 5. Angel Innovation - As the first entrepreneurship-based innovation centre in Canada, this is obviously big news. A partnership between angel investors and Microsoft Canada provides an environment to help foster and develop ideas and innovation, free of charge. An incredible investment in the country and in our future. 4. The Zune phone - Although little ... More About: Stories , Tech , Tories , Week , Stor
Security Articles
2007-03-01 16:33:04 Here are some interesting security related articles that I've come across this week. The first one is an update on an article I wrote in January regarding disclosure of security breaches by Canadian companies. This comes in the wake of a CIBC subsidiary's security breach that resulted in thousands of identities being at-risk. Canada's privacy laws relating ... More About: Security , Articles , Article , Artic
Short For IT?
2007-03-01 16:33:04 With more and more companies having their day-to-day business operations relying on computers and the internet (the Canadian health industry is excluded in this group), there is an obvious increase in the demand for IT specialists, or an individual within the company that can somewhat fill this role. An article I read off of the ... More About: Short
Canadian eHealth
2007-03-01 16:33:04 I'm sure it shouldn't really be a suprise that those involved in developing and implementing the electronic aspects of our health care system would not only provide their own resistance to the movement, but would also find the general population to be leery of having their most-private and personal information being available nation-wide. The problem or ... More About: Health , Canadian , Cana , Dian , Adia
Mobile Community
2006-12-02 16:12:03 While I was looking for information for this article, I stopped in on the Wikipedia page that has a list of Google's properties. At the time of the purchase, which according to this article was May 2005, I'm sure I didn't really appreciate the magnitude of the purchase. For those of you who don't know [...] More About: Mobile , Community , Muni , Unity , Comm
What Aspects of Security Do You Overlook?
2006-12-02 16:12:03 Security is something that has to concern all of us. With incredible increases in spamming and fishing, fake wireless networks, and a variety of other attacks on security, it's important to know some of the most common mistakes made and how to avoid them. A great, although lengthy, article from Dark Reading: The 10 Most Over looked Aspects [...] More About: Security , What , Hat
Mobile Web-apps
2006-12-02 16:12:03 Lately, several of our articles have focussed on bridging the gap between mobile devices and online applications (weren't these called websites before?). We aren't the only ones talking about this hot topic. While the ink was still drying on my article about Dodgeball and how that property would help Google release a mobile version of YouTube [...] More About: Mobile , Mobile Web , Mobi , Bile
Social Recovery
2006-12-02 16:12:03 An interesting article was included in the Hitwise US newsletter. It talks about the traffic trends on social networking sites, compares them with Wikipedia, and looks at how those trends are affected by the school year. There is nothing suprising about the trends, except maybe how significant the start of the school year and finals are [...] More About: Social , Recovery , Soci , Cover , Over
techFive - 12.01.06
2006-12-02 16:12:03 Well, it's late on Friday, which is a horrible time to make this release, especially when I've been at work almost an hour extra for the second day in a row. However, I do like my job - the one that pays me and this one - and I'm a trooper, so here it is. 1. MySpace (officially) debuts [...] More About: Tech , Five
Operating Online
2006-12-02 16:12:03 Several different applications that formerly ran on your desktop have moved to an online platform that allows for increased accessibility by the creator of the content and distribution or sharing of the content. Images and videos are obvious examples, with interactive slideshows of still images and video clips being passed around online in record numbers. Google has their started developing their [...] More About: Opera , Online , Line , Operating
Silicon beaten, must Venture on
2006-09-01 02:24:02 It might be the saddest news of my short blogging career to have to talk about the fading off of SiliconBeat into the sunset. This morning, when I arrived at work, it was good and bad news at the same time. Not that I crave attention or recognition, but hey, when I get an email [...] More About: Icon , Venture , Must , Vent
OpenOffice, StarOffice, WordPerfect Office, OH MY!
2006-08-30 08:12:01 The strongest statement that was made about my comments on Google Apps was an email with the subject line: Two words that contained, suprise suprise, two words. Open Office . Open Office was originally Star Office suite, a collection of software from StarDivision, a German company founded in 1986 by Marco Böries. In the summer of 1999, Sun Microsystems [...] More About: Word , Perfect
Google Apps Means Nothing
2006-08-29 20:09:01 I would never suggest that the release is insignificant, but I would still stress the fact that at this point, people are still putting too much weight into the how much pressure this really places on the main competitor of this release, Microsoft. The significance of this release will be most strongly felt by smaller [...] More About: Google , Google Apps , Nothing , Thing , Googl
Search Evolution
2006-08-29 20:09:01 Regardless of the search engine, the system still seems to lack the ability to return some of the simpler searches. There are several reasons that this could be the case, but as search engines continue to compete to provide users with relevant results, it should become less important how well a site is optimized for search [...] More About: Evolution , Search
Reflections on BarCamp
2006-08-29 20:09:01 Having been familiar with the Rules Of Bar Camp , it is of course my duty to be writing this article (see the 2nd Rule). I was quite disappointed to not make it back out on Saturday, but as I mentioned to many people, I did have a wedding to go to that afternoon in Mission, [...] More About: Reflections , Reflection , Barcamp , Arca
For the Week?
2006-08-26 20:03:02 BarCamp Vancouver is tonight. Should be a great event. Meet new people, learn new things, share what you learned - and heck, there will even be pizza and beer. How can anyone come up with something better? Microsoft released some information about some of the video searching that it has been researching. Check out this post about [...] More About: Week
My Very Easy Map?
2006-08-25 20:03:01 My Very Easy Map Just Shows Us Nine Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Millions of children throughout the years have probably taken great care to remember the saying that not only helps remember the names of the planets, but also the order in which they appear moving away from the sun. Of [...]
New-look Dictionary.com
2006-08-25 20:03:01 Dictionary .com is one of my absolute favourite resources on the web, and seems to have recently undergone a much-needed update on the look of the site. Coming back with a softer, tighter setup, the two images I was able to get for the site even had the same ads, making the comparison of the two layouts [...] More About: Look
Strength in Numbers
2006-08-25 20:03:01 While preparing for the first event Jay & Silent Rob will be helping host as well as preparing for BarCamp Vancouver, I find it important to appreciate these types of events and what can be accomplished by creating an established network of contacts. Looking no further than Seattle and as far South as the Silicon Valley, [...] More About: Numb , Numbers , Number
nPost.com/JayAndSilentRob.com Networking Event Wrap-up
2006-08-25 20:03:01 The first nPost .com event in Vancouver not only seemed to be a great success, it makes the idea of attending BarCamp Vancouver on Friday even more exciting. With a total attendance of twenty-five or so individuals and a couple plates of appys, the people that I met represented such an amazing range of Tech jobs, [...] More About: Event , Networking , Work , Network
Searching For Change
More articles from this author:2006-08-11 19:39:02 It would be foolish to assume or even suggest that the recent deal, the recent $900 million deal to be exact, between search giant Google and News Corporation, is insignificant or a bad move for either company. Especially since the deal includes exclusive rights to the search and pay per click ads on The Beast known as [...] More About: Change , Search , Archi , Searching , Chang 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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