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Looking Forward to GROWing

August 18, 2010

Vancouver is the scene of a wonderfully diverse and burgeoning technology economy.  One effort I am making to shepherd this along is with a film I’ve been producing in partnership with the Vancouver Film School, Microsoft Canada, BCTIA, VEDC, and BC Innovation Council.  Another is of course the entrepreneurial endeavour begun by Patrick and I [...]

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Vote for Obama, Get a Mac

August 11, 2010

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Promote Vancouver, Promote Your Company

August 4, 2010

Thanks to generous support from the Vancouver Economic Development Commission, the BCTIA, the BC Innovation Council, Microsoft Canada, and others I have been quietly producing a film along with a team of digital designers from the internationally-acclaimed Vancouver Film School.  The goal of the film is to serve as a centrepiece in promoting our city [...]

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Steve Jobs apology? Not likely.

July 16, 2010

Lots of hubbub and hype about “antennagate” and Apple’s attempts to quash it today with a hastily-prepared press conference.  But does Apple really need to apologize for a cataclysm which exists largely in the nubbins of traffic-hungry bloggers and journalists?  No. Share this article:

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In Response to Loreena McKennitt on Copyright

July 7, 2010

I am troubled by the heaping pile of dung, in the form of Canada’s Bill C-32, that is attempting to foist an American-style DMCA on unsuspecting and distracted Canadian consumers and, frankly, have been waiting to voice my opinion on said excrement.  Michael Geist, in his own kind and gentle manner, has today posited a [...]

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The Twitter Rebellion of 2010

April 12, 2010

Is this the beginning of a rebellion that could turn the tide of goodwill that has nurtured Twitter to prominence against it? I thought, as I read Fred Wilson’s now infamous Inflection Point screed last week, that it foreshadowed something significant.  Turns out I was correct.  Turns out that Fred, who is an investor in [...]

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On Stock Options

March 5, 2010

Over the past way-too-many years I’ve had occasion to interview north of 250 individuals for dozens of positions at both startups and large companies on both sides of the border.  Having spent my teething years (professionally) in the maelstrom of Silicon Valley I have come to be able to recognize many different character types and [...]

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The epic struggle of Big Telco

January 12, 2010

Dear Fred — I think your statement: “In the early days of the Internet, when dial-up was king, the telco companies were in the driver’s seat. They had the customer relationships. They had the on-ramp to the Internet. But they did not create Google, Skype, Facebook, or even TCP/IP.” … is misleading.  It assumes that [...]

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The 10 Most Disappointing Technologies of the 2000s

December 31, 2009

I have just realized that FOIB and ianbell.com passed their 10-year anniversary some time in 2009 without me really marking the event.  During that time I’ve authored thousands of articles, missives, and comments that have been shared from my online pulpit and you, dear reader, have astonishingly tolerated it all with few complaints.  Thanks! Lately [...]

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Could SIP Save Skype?

November 2, 2009

The answer, in my article over at GigaOM.com, is resoundingly NO. But there’s more to it than that. My argument in this piece was largely an economic one, not as much a dissertation on the independent merits of the protocols in play.  I do think that the issues around SIP remain relevant as they result [...]

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