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Ottawa Local Blogs Yodels Like Pros (say that 5 times)

December 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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Last year, one of our local tech papers added a link listing their top local (Ottawa Canada) blogs. I was curious to see how we all stacked up Alexa-wise... Here's the top 10. 24,938 - John Roese (Nortel CTO ) 35,137 - Jonathan Snook (SEO) 120,375 - Tom Green (laughs) 185,378 - Michael Geist (freedom fighter) 195,197 ...

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Gonna Party Like It Was 1951!

December 31st, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 3 comments
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Here's an old pic of Jobe & me at the SensoryMetrics New Year's Eve bash on December 31st, 1950! Not much has changed, we're still dressing like that (it amuses our wives!) My New Year's resolution? 1280x800. I hope to get beyond that by next New Years!! Happy New Year to all the folks ...

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Web Commerce Oddity of 2007: (so-called) Best Buy

December 30th, 2007 Baxter No comments
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The Consumerist reports all sorts of misdeeds at Best Buy. The strangest is this "secret" rogue version of their website in in-store kiosks. The real web site usually has lower prices than in-store ones. If you mention the lower price, staff are supposed to give you the best price. With ...

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LetDown Oddity of 2007: Joost (5700 channels and there’s nothing on)

December 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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I love the UI...and the quality of the image. but despite the hype... the selected betas... the secrecy...the so-called web2.0 superstar CEOs... huh..... content? did someone forget the content?? Joost just blows. Conversely - new kid to watch... Blowtorch. It's a bona fide Hollywoood studio headed by the director ...

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UX Oddity of 2007: Philips shavers & sex with robots

December 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments

Released in mid-summer, this has to be one of the strangest electric shaver commercials we've seen yet. As Woody Allen predicted in his 1973 movie Sleeper... in the future, people will have sex with machines. As Big Corps move more of their ad budgets to the web next year, it should ...

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Telecom Oddities of 2007: “Por que no te callas?”

December 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 2 comments
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1. "Why don't you shut up?" - that's what Spain's king Juan Carlos told Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in a debate. The clip has become the ringtone of choice for 500,000 spaniards, having generated $2 million in sales. 2. China's Huawei Networks shows amazing growth in the service provider router market ranking a ...

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XLR: The connector eXperience

December 27th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Long before XML there was XLR. Different things though... XLR is mostly an industrial audio connector: for microphones, for speakers, for anything. Rich first introduced me to this amazing thing long ago when we were teenagers starting our first business. It's an industry standard and is brilliant in execution. ...

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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day

December 25th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Today's picture was taken last week by Montreal photographer Wally Palcholka . The gorgeous night shot shows a brilliant Mars on the left, with a reddish star Betelgeuse in the center along with The Belt of Orion. The ET-like landscape is the Buttes of Monument Valley in southern Utah. NASA's gallery features ...

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This year, Grandpa got a squirrel!

December 25th, 2007 Baxter No comments
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...and all I got was a dumb rubber chew toy! Hey, grandpa - wanna trade? via SquareAmerica - a terrific archive of vintage pics. [tags]Gift-A-Squirrel[/tags]

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