New Canadian Online Home Sale Site

June 3, 2005

Rob Carrick writes in the Globe about a new website aimed at the for-sale-by-owner real estate market. The new service looks to be the strongest of many before it that have tried to break the lock that the traditional real estate market has, via its captive MLS system, on home listings. Quotes: A business venture […]

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Integrating VoIP and Online Reputation Management

June 2, 2005

Apropos my recent post on ominous recent developments concerning Canada’s proposed Do Not Call registry, I noticed this post today on Skype Journal about the potential interplay between Skype and online reputation management systems. Imagine an IP network with integrated voice and data communications and messaging systems (voice, email, SMS) tied into an online reputation […]

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More Changes – Including a Changed Feed

June 2, 2005

More changes to the blog – I’ve just discovered a new WordPress theme and after a few changes have adapted it for my own use. Also, I’ve burned the RSS 2.0 feed from this blog so it’s now available here as a Feedburner SmartFeed: New Feedburner feed Please feel free to comment on the new […]

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Data Disclosures Trigger New State Laws

June 2, 2005

The rash of recent accidental and other data disclosures (I’ve posted on these issues on many occasions recently – see here for a series of related posts) has triggered new laws in several U.S. states that require, among other things, notification to affected persons of disclosure. WaPo covers the waterfront in an article today, and […]

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Yahoo! Employee Blog Guidelines

June 1, 2005

Yahoo’s Employee Blog Guidelines are online. Via Jeremy Zawodny, who also offers his own advice. I’ve updated my page on Corporate and Employee Blogging Resources.

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Ontario Justice IT Mega-System Post-Mortem

June 1, 2005

The Globe has an article today looking back on the fiasco that was Ontario’s Integrated Justice Project, a failed large scale IT project intended to “to link Ontario’s correctional system, the courts, the judiciary, the prosecution service and the police into a seamless network through which civil and criminal cases could be filed and tracked”. […]

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Is the National Do Not Call Registry Being Gutted?

May 31, 2005

The Do Not Call Registry previously promised by the Liberal government has apparently taken a beating before the Standing Committee on Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology – lobbyists on behalf of charities and telemarketers are, it would seem, working hard to dilute the effort before it gets off the ground. The details are in […]

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Is Shaw Packet Preferencing?

May 31, 2005

Michael Geist writes today that Shaw is charging a “$10 VoIP “quality of service enhancement” product accompanied by a warning that failure to pay the fee may result in quality of service issues with third party providers” – meanwhile, Primus is claiming that its VoIP service is spotty with Shaw. Michael’s post assesses this in […]

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One Lawyer’s Case Against the Law

May 31, 2005

Fast Company has a piece on Covington & Burlington M&A partner Phillip Howard’s campaign against the U.S. legal culture of victimhood. The article dates back a while (and since then the battle over the lawsuit culture of the U.S. has become more intense); what caught my eye was a current link to the story from […]

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Holding Data Hostage

May 30, 2005

Bruce Schneier deconstructs the recent data hostage incident first reported last week.

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Transcendence Reconsidered

May 30, 2005

At MIT’s Technology Review, a fascinating debate unfolds on whether the study of defeating aging is science, science fiction or existential angst.

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The Next Great Idea

May 30, 2005

Marc Pincus has a post on what it’s like for an entrepreneur thinking about the next great idea.

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