Canada’s startups get the flag
By Mark Evans Canada’s startup landscape is healthier than ever, as evidenced by the recent International Startup Festival in Montreal. Putting aside the ambitious name (I would have selected something like the Canadian Startup Festival), the fact that it was well-organized and well-attended suggests there might just be some real traction within the startup community. [...]
Canada AWOL at eG8
By Frank Moher PARIS – It is a curious thing, to host the lions of the digital world in a series of tents in a public park. But that is what French President Nicolas Sarkozy did this week in Paris, for the so-called eG8 forum, a prelude to the G8 forum 173 km to the [...]
Poledancing to the Web’s Tune – page 2
Coninued from page 1 Good, original content is the first and most important factor in getting and growing traffic, Peach explains. It not only draws potential customers in, but also keeps them browsing around and clicking on links and ads. For Lennard, creating content has had another plus side. “Sometimes it’s a struggle to find [...]
Blekko me
By Mark Evans After a lot of hype and venture capital, Blekko launched today. For those of you not familiar with Blekko, it’s a new search engine that, like most of the search start-ups in recent years, has been billed as a new threat to Google. While I haven’t had much of a chance to [...]
Google search: ballsy
By Rachel Krueger The ever-changing Google homepage logo is usually my first clue that it’s Earth Day or that PacMan has turned 30. It’s informative, whimsical, and a Thing To Look At while I type in my search terms. But today’s logo, made up of colorful balls that seem to flee your cursor, has people [...]
Hitler to Wait for HP Slate
By Eric Pettifor Apple’s iPad has been out for awhile now, long enough for tons of opinion pieces to be written, so no need for me to add to the noise, especially when so many of my reservations have been so well expressed by none other than Adolph Hitler. Apparently, for him, the final straw [...]
End Times for the iPhone
By Eric Pettifor 2010 could prove to be the year of the iPhone killer, but, if so, Apple’s bereavement will simply be collateral damage in the ever-raging battle between giants Microsoft and Google. Google’s Android on a Google phone won’t deliver the death blow, but it will be a sign of the end times. Android [...]
The Terrifying Tale of Textbook Tammy
By Eric Pettifor I was chatting with a friend about the high cost of textbooks, and he recalled a young woman of his acquaintance from his university days who made some extra cash by selling photocopies of textbooks. I didn’t ask how she did this. Did she hang around on campus wearing a big raincoat [...]
Googling Camelot
The use of aerial and satellite photography in archaeology is nothing new, but not long ago if you told the average archaeologist he could get it for free, he likely would not have believed you. Today, of course, we all know about Google Maps (or Google Earth with its fancier interface), and the surprise isn’t [...]
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