FON Funding

February 5, 2006

Om notes that FON, the wifi sharing service I blogged a few months ago, has been funded to the tune of US$22M, and the blogosphere is burning with the news. For now, FON is Europe and US only, but will it come to Canada? I think it’s a marvellous idea, but as I said when […]

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Canadian Web 2.0

February 5, 2006

Mark Evans recently blogged the question ‘where is Canada on Web 2.0?’. It looks like a list is emerging. See the comments to his original post, the comments on a post by Michael McDerment on the same topic, and David Crow’s (partial?) list.

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AOL and Yahoo Get Paid for E-Mail

February 5, 2006

Yesterday the NYT picked up the story that AOL and Yahoo are prepared to drop their spam filters for cash – between a quarter of a cent and one cent per e-mail – and the blogosphere is now fairly buzzing over the news (it’s the #1 story on Megite and tech.memeo already), though no one’s […]

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The Un-VC Blog

February 5, 2006

Sandhill Slave is the new Queen of the Blogs. Nefertiti, even. Sample attitude: “Some of them are so dense, they’ve created their own event horizon.” Via Larry Borsato via Rick Segal.

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The Globe’s New Blog

February 5, 2006

The Globe’s redesign of its blog website must make it the bloggiest major newspaper on the ‘net. From the look and feel (multi-vertical columns; vertical scroll) to the story layout (short segment, click for more; related stories), to the functionality (comments after each story) – I know blogs and that’s a blog.

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Follow the World

February 4, 2006

Michael has a nice summary of developments ’round the world to democratize copyright law and preserve fair use.

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God Wants His Royalty Check

February 4, 2006

In a development that will seem dismayingly familiar to opponents of Crown copyright, the Vatican is apparently now enforcing the copyright it asserts over the Church’s publications, including Pope Benedict’s words, such as his recently published Encyclical, “God is Love”. Much more than Love, apparently – since under Church doctrine, the Pope is more or […]

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On Memeo

February 3, 2006

There’s a lot of buzz about memeorandum and tech.memeorandum these days, both because of Don Dodge’s interview with its founder, Gabe Rivera, but also because ranked aggregation is kind of a holy grail in Web 2.0 right now – everyone is trying to figure out how to replace the human editor and make aggregation of […]

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How to Destroy Information

February 3, 2006

Tip of the hat to David Fraser for pointing out this fact sheet from the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner with advice on how to securely destroy information. (I’m guessing this is the only publication of the Ontario Government that contains the word “pulverization”.) Extra credit for the Appendix of sample contract clauses for secure […]

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A Patent War Over Remote Desktop Technology

February 2, 2006

01 Communique is suing Citrix for patent infringement in the U.S. over GoToMyPC and other products. I’m a little surprised – GoToMyPC has been in the market for quite a while, as have pcAnywhere, VNC, Microsoft’s Remote Desktop and others, so I would have thought the prior art was abundant. But as networking and collaborative […]

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The End of the Pixel Wars

February 2, 2006

Via Nicholas Carr, evidently an avid photographer, David Pogue is calling the end of the pixel wars (thank God).

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New LSUC Case Files Series in Business Law Series

February 2, 2006

The LSUC Case Files Series in Business Law Series that I chair is on again for 2006 with new sessions. Details are here.

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