Interesting and kind of scary article from Canada.com: “Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers”
The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such [...]
A phenomenal and impressive use of Abobe Flash to create a space themed visualization for Flickr images via tagging. Enjoy.
Site: Tag Galaxy
Looks like Bell is jumping on the movie download bandwagon, ala Apple iTunes, Microsoft xbox 360 , Netflix, etc. Interesting arguments from the article in regards to this announcement and in the CRTC investigation on their own peer-to-peer throttling practices. Now I wonder when Rogers will follow suit with their own movie download offering.
Rogers has [...]
Synopsis: Great in theory, not so great in execution
GrandCentral is a “free Google-owned internet service that uses VoIP to link customers’ phone numbers together”. It is currently in private beta and there have not been any invites available since March 14, 2008. Lucky for me, I managed to snag a “blogger invite” just before the [...]
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Wired has issued a response to Michael Arrington’s tweet. Is it me or the tone a little snide? One thing I do know, it doesn’t seem they like each other much I’ll keep an eye on twitter for another colourful response.
Wired does make a valid point:
We pointed out how odd it seemed that [...]
A great article Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 that provides a simple explanation of the popular buzzwords that have defined how our Internet experiences has changed through web movements.
Quick Summary:
Web 1.0 – books, news, music and everything else being moved into a digital format
Web 2.0 – the sharing of data and social [...]
For those who don’t use RSS or even know what it is (and probably could care less), a new Toronto based site www.torontoh.com has recently launched that puts the latest Toronto news all on one page. It pulls information from different sources – from mainstream news organizations to local Toronto based blogs. Inspired by popurls.com, [...]
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington recently announced that TechCrunch articles will now be appearing on WashingtonPost.com. Nothing spectacular in regards to breaking news but it seems that Mr. Arrington took offense to a Wired blog post on the same subject and decided to use twitter to voice his “concern”:
Wow. Interesting to see the differences between mainstream journalists [...]
So it appears that Microsoft has withdrawn their bid for Yahoo. A bit of a surprise that Microsoft didn’t try a hostile takeover, but I guess that would be business suicide considering Yahoo’s continuing refusal to work a deal with them. Could only get worse if MS attempts something hostile. Good on them not to [...]
