Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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 - [...]
Popularity: 27%
Filed under: Long Tail, Media, Web 3.0 | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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? 1280×800. I hope to get beyond that by next New Years!! Happy New Year to all the folks [...]
Popularity: 23%
Filed under: Events, Geek Wear | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Baxter
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 [...]
Popularity: 22%
Filed under: Bones, Business, Pirates, Web 3.0 | No Comments »
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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 [...]
Popularity: 24%
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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 [...]
Popularity: 23%
Filed under: Business, Gadgets, Media, User Experience, Web 3.0 | No Comments »
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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 [...]
Popularity: 32%
Filed under: Business, Events, Mobility | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 27th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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. The main [...]
Popularity: 15%
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Posted on December 25th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
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 [...]
Popularity: 16%
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Posted on December 25th, 2007 by Baxter
…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
Popularity: 19%
Popularity: 19%
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Posted on December 25th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
20 years ago, Irish band The Pogues released the song Fairytale in New York. It has since become the UK’s #1 favourite Christmas song. This is a bit odd because the song is a duet about a couple of bums locked up in a NY drunk tank.
Gotta hand it to the Brits though [...]
Popularity: 20%
Filed under: Events, Media, Pirates | No Comments »
