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Twitter- markevans: I've been doing a lot of messaging & usability work recently for start-ups. It's a nice change of pace from social media strategy & tactics
- markevans: The West Toronto Railpath is one of Toronto's new urban gems - http://bit.ly/byUfwG. It would be great to see something along Dupont.#bikes
- markevans: @delip You may want to make it easier to apply for the Twezr beta by putting a direct link on the home page. Right now, it's confusing.
- markevans: An interesting podcast on NPR about how technology and always being connected is affecting our brains and how we think: http://n.pr/cVScxF
- markevans: The problem with Apple's new Ping service, including the fact iTunes is not social via @techcrunch - http://tcrn.ch/bhc9Es #ping #apple
Category Archives: Web-based Services
Canada: Get Ready for Broadband Bandwidth Tiers
Last week, Rogers ruffled a few feathers when it unveiled bandwidth changes to its broadband services. New customers who sign up for the Lite service will get 15 gigabytes of data rather than 25GB; while Extreme users will now get … Continue reading
The Ingredients for Startup Success
In my post about the success of Sysomos (which was acquired by Marketwire earlier this week), I talked about how Sysomos benefited from great timing – having the right product at the right place at the right time. This, of … Continue reading
When Should Startups Start Charging?
One of the challenges facing many online start-ups is getting people to actually pay for their services, which probably explains why so many of them offer free services. This is great for consumers but leaves start-ups scrambling for ways to … Continue reading
Six Questions with…Prezi
If you’ve got to a technology conference recently, you may have noticed some presenters using a new and cool tool rather than PowerPoint. Instead of slides, these presentations look like a giant landscape with text and images on them that … Continue reading
Flickr Without Yahoo?
There was some major news from Flickr today on the inclusion of its three billionth photograph. That’s incredibly impressive but it got me thinking about how Flickr might have been different if Yahoo hadn’t snapped up the company for a … Continue reading
A Recession will be Good for Craigslist
With the “r” word (recession) slowly going from a whisper to a quiet roar, the spending habits of consumers are going to quickly change. If people are going to make purchases, many of them will be bargain-hunting – waiting for … Continue reading
Yahoo Fiddles While Rome Burns
The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Yahoo is poised for eliminate more than 1,000 jobs as it battles to remain viable amid fierce competition and a tumultuous economic landscape. That’s it: 1,000 positions? Not to be disrespectful or dismissive … Continue reading
The .com Domain is Becoming Irrelevant
It used to be that if you didn’t have a .com domain, you pretty much doomed. It was the global standard when establishing a presence on the Web. It is becoming increasingly apparent, however, that having a .com domain is … Continue reading
Life on the Other Side of the Digital Coin
So, my hunt for Wi-Fi in Bayfield, Ont. was finally successful as the public library offers free access. What’s interesting is the library seems to be the place in town where most people go to get online. With a large … Continue reading
Think, Breath…Then Hit Reply
We live in a world of instant-gratification and instant communication. We want things and we want them now. We want to communicate with people and we want to communicate instantaneously and continually. One of the major challenges within the always-on, … Continue reading