July 4, 2008

YouTube vs. Viacom

YouTube told to hand over users’ data

MATT HARTLEY
From Friday’s Globe and Mail
July 3, 2008 at 9:01 PM EDT

Google Inc. has been ordered to disclose reams of data detailing the personal video-watching habits of YouTube users in a landmark court decision that critics say could potentially identify millions of people around the world and erodes expectations [...]

July 3, 2008

whats the value of experience?

we have this debate internally with almost all the projects we do….what’s the value of our work. Creative, technology, strategy .. each have a different way of being valued. Each task required many many years of experience to enable us to do what we do. Simply calculating your value on the hours it takes doesn’t [...]

July 3, 2008

the future in the minds of our youths..

I have always said that most of the world’s problems can be fixed if we listen to the ideas of our youths. I am in the process of launching my not-for-profit organization UMA Foundation to see I can help tap into this. The concept if very simple, Pick 3 social issues and invite University and [...]

July 3, 2008

Rogers found a way to mess up my iPhone dreams

i must say, i am addicted to gadgets. Blackberry, IPOD, PSP, WII..all of them get my attention and I have “invested” tons of cash over the past few years on my uncontrollable habit. But, the desire to get the iPhone is not there. In looking at the price plans offered by ROGERS, i can’t imagine [...]

June 30, 2008

XP is .. gone gone gone..

this is really going to suck..no more XP for sale. I recently purchased a new laptop with Vista on it. Its was the best money could buy..totally loaded with memory etc. It last two months before i switched to a MAC and I now must confess.the HYPE is true about MACs!
I should have done this [...]

June 30, 2008

Drink milk ad..funny..(maybe not that funny)

could be just the monday morning mindset..but I couldn’t stop laughing..
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/milk_bc_dairy_foundation_teen_power_team
Sathish

June 24, 2008

back .. finally!

hey..everyone..
sorry for the very long absence from blogging. Since April, I have been on the road with desiFEST and executing in Montreal, Vancouver and finally in Toronto on May 31st. While that adventure was going full force, BlueBand Media has also been very active with new accounts, new office, new staff .. so, it been [...]

April 15, 2008

Google and Salesforce expand alliance against Microsoft

I’ve been quite interested about this war on the web between mircosoft and google. If you noticed from my last post that Both google and mircosoft are both trying to dominate the world wide web. We’ll see who wins
Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft’s most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in [...]

April 11, 2008

« Previous post Next post » April 11 2008 Microsoft Live Maps Drinks Google Maps’ Milkshake

Last night, Microsoft pushed out a ton of new features to Windows Live Maps, including a face-lift to some of its 3-D cities (Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix), the ability to export your collections to GPS devices and GeoRSS feeds (which means I can make custom maps for my Dash GPS), support for 3D-map [...]

April 9, 2008

Japanese-Style Keyboards Look Almost Too Good for Typing

These traditional Japanese-style keyboards are a class apart from the grey or white boringness of the average keyboard. As well as looking different, and neat these devices are even handmade for that extra “creative” touch. The gold one’s damn attractive and would look cool on many a desk: but not the green “kara kusa” one… [...]