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People only really like villains when they're imaginary characters. How many of us secretly rooted for Jack Nicholson's version of the Joker,…
A search engine company with a sci-fi name and a bare-bones website "received $7 million in a Series A funding round from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures" earlier this week. The company, known as "Spock," describes itself as "the world's largest people search engine."
While online holiday shopping in the US remains robust things are different north of our border in Canada. Canadians lead the world in broadband penetration, time spent online, electronic banking and bill paying. Clearly they are an Internet savvy country but when it comes to making online purchases Canadians prefer to buy at a store.
Richard MacManus stumbled on AskX.com, a testing user interface for Ask's search engine.
With all the drama on the Internet this year, it was difficult to narrow down the villains list. But the heroes list was harder to make - mostly because there's nothing more subjective than a hero. Subjective or not (and it's not not), there are a few clear standouts, as far as we're concerned.
Ah, the raw, unyielding power of Web 2.0. My friend, Lee Odden, learned his Top Rank blog site was banned from Digg. He discovered this unceremoniously and is justifiably angry.
