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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Sam and I officially launched blognation Canada this morning. Send tips and news to tris.hussey [AT] blognation [DOT] com.
With a little prodding from Dan York (thanks Dan) I’m putting this announcement up in the main content area.
On Monday blognation US and Ireland launched and today was my turn.
It’s a lot of fun … and I [...]
Get your dose of tech news from the Emerald Isle: blognation Ireland launches
Monday, August 13th, 2007The blognation family has grown again with the official launch today of blognation Ireland…
The Irish site is part of the blognation network which is building up to be the biggest tech news site on non-US Web 2.0 startups around the globe including EMEA, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Canada.
For a country of only four million people, [...]
Facebook pulls in Parakey–the new face of the web is born
Saturday, July 21st, 2007TechCrunch broke the story that Facebook was acquiring WebOS startup Parakey (see also Inside Facebook and for Read/Write Web’s background on Parakey). Since I’m sitting here in Salt Lake International airport and rather offline (I’d rather not pay for WiFi, but I might break down later), I’m taking some time to reflect on this very interesting, if not [...]
Time spent metric doesn’t work for blogs, page views are still relevant
Thursday, July 12th, 2007I’ve been contemplating metrics since Steve Rubel proclaimed the final death of the page view a little while ago. While I’m not a fan of picking one number to judge a site’s success or failure, page views were certainly better than “hits” ( How Idiots Track Success). Visits, as they are presently calculated, have always been problematic [...]
Pownce is the evolution of collaboration meets social media meets P2P
Friday, June 29th, 2007Pownce has been out for barely two days, the new car smell hasn't faded and we're still finding pieces of bubble wrap everywhere, but people have been begging for invites (myself included and I finally got one, thanks again Robert) all day. So Pownce is hot, so what? I think Ross Mayfield has the answer [...]
Net Neutrality dealt a major blow in the U.S.–this is not something Canada should flow
Thursday, June 28th, 2007The FTC reported today (news release and PDF of full report) that they don't believe that any legislation is required to enshrine net neutrality in the U.S.:
The Federal Trade Commission today dealt a serious blow to “Net Neutrality” proponents as it issued a report dismissive of claims that the government needs to get involved in [...]
Will P2P be the savior of caching services?
Friday, April 13th, 2007Travis and the team at Red Swoosh must be happy campers today with the announcement that caching giant Akamai has purchased them:
The rumors of this deal had been floating around for about two months and Travis Kalanick of Red Swoosh has been avoiding us for a while now, ever since we asked him about the [...]
Twitter is going to burn itself out
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Twitter has been driving me nuts for the past few days now. I'm not a huge Twitter addict, but I do like seeing the tweets back and forth and I have gotten some hot tips from my network of friends. The problem is that Twitter has just become really, really unreliable for me. I started [...]
Ning as an alternative to regular forums
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007I started seeing Ning buzz early this morning. I came upon the Wired article (with screenshot from PodTech), and thought, okay I think I need to look at this, like now. How can you pass up an article intro like this:
Holy macaroni! Look at the raw programming power that is modern Web 2.0! The woman [...]
Is a Vista-Office 2007 retreat beginning?
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007Chris announced that his relationship with Vista is over. Poor performance, bad or missing drivers, he's pretty much had it. On SpendMatters Jason's advice is even stronger–just don't do it. Another person going from Vista and Office 2007 to XP and 2003. Wow.
Hey, category managers in charge of IT spend. Want to make yourself a [...]
Breaking News: Google Announces Google Apps Premier Edition, has MS Office in its sights
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007InformationWeek has broken the news tonight that Google has taken the wraps off the much-rumored Google Apps Premier Edition. Michael at Techcrunch got wind that something was up for today (it's Thursday already) and updated his post with the news. From IW:
Google Apps Premier Edition, unveiled Thursday, features online e-mail, calendaring, messaging and talk applications [...]
Adobe opens up PDF pre-empting a Microsoft coup?
Monday, January 29th, 2007The big news today is that Adobe is releasing PDF as an open standard for the world. Lots of coverage on this
Scoble
News.com
Techcrunch
Adobe (press release)
What I think is most interesting, however, is Mary Jo Foley's analysis on ZDNet:
In their latest complaint, Microsoft's compeitors cited XAML and Office Open XML (OOXML) as examples of Microsoft unfairly pushing [...]
I got my invite to Joost! Man is it cool.
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007I haven't written about Joost or the Venice Project much. Why? I hadn't seen it yet. Now that I have, OMG. It's cool. It's slick. The UI is innovative, interesting, and pretty easy to deal with. Yeah I've had to click around a bit to figure stuff out, but that's okay. It is beta after [...]
Apple shilling vapourware? Valleywag making sense?
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007Now there are two things I never thought I'd put together in the same space. Yes, I read Valleywag. Of course I do. Haven't shown up there yet, probably because when I do stupid stuff at conferences, they aren't there to take pictures. Or I'm not that important yet. Regardless, like Paul from Valleywag I [...]
FeedBurner launches integrated site stats via BlogBeat
Thursday, January 4th, 2007Since the Pay-Per-Post—Performancing announcement and my move to use the pre-launch FB stats, I've been waiting to give my review of the service. Well Rick Klau pinged me this morning to let me know that the teasing is over, and the BlogBeat-powered stats are now available for everyone!
Before I get into my review of the [...]