Net advertising slows
The Associated Press: Internet Ad Revenue Exceeds $21B in 2007
Internet advertising is expected to slow from the previous exponential growth, but still accounts for less than 10% of all ad spending. Do you advertise online? What is your return on investment? Is that the most effective use of your spending?
MSFT offers $44.6 billion YHOO
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo in $44.6 billion deal | Top News | Reuters
CBC.ca: Microsoft offers $44.6B US in cash and stock for Yahoo
Too little, too late, and for too much. Is this going to be Bill’s legacy? Going to make for lots of tech talk in business and tech circles. Google […]
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
Slashdot | Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
Microsoft disabled support for many older file formats. If you have old Word, Excel, 1-2-3, Quattro, or Corel Draw documents, watch out!
Careful with your upgrades. Every corporate tech support person had better be aware of this when some one doing year-end filings needs to […]
TTWC on BlogTO
Useful Widget: Toronto Traffic Cameras 3.1
Thanks to Jerrold Litwinenko of blogTO for the recommendation.
Moncton buses offer wireless access
Hey TTC, want to increase ridership? Do this!
Moncton buses offer wireless access | CBC.ca
Indigo does a BOOKface
Indigo’s Community - where Canadians booklovers connect!
Chapters.Indigo.ca has just unveiled its community social networking site. Think of it as a niche Facebook for books, DVDs, and music in Canada. Overall user experience is good, with unobtrusive AJAX making data input clean. An honourable mention goes to respecting privacy, asking for only an […]
Twitter gets us one step closer
From page 27 of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers,
Phones, faxes, e-mails, SMS, and IM all extend the conversation, as do online forums, bulletin boards, and chatrooms. But none fo them lets one person converse with many people in multiple locations until blogging… [blogs] give compelling evidence […]
This is not Software Engineering, why not?
Slashdot | Computer Foul-up Breaks Canadian Tax Filing System
Apparently on Monday they discovered tax fillings submitted electronically where the social insurance number, and the date of birth were swapped
This is why the world needs more well trained software engineers doing more than just safety-critical work. Critical systems include those where an individual can be […]
Social voyeurism
Voyeurism: is a deviant manifestation of sexuality that involves looking without being seen in order to obtain sexual pleasure.
I have been unlike many my age, those that grew up in the age of the Internet. I have had a tube to the webs and the googles since the web was 3 years old. […]
Embedded Mac OS X, Called it
MacSlash | iPhone Dispute Settled; Both Parties To Use iPhone Moniker
What does it all mean? Linksys routers running Darwin. Mark my word.
I called it the day the iPhone was announced… go read it.