A decade after its inauspicious debut, group-buying has become all the rage. GroupOn is worth a gazillion dollars and rejecting multi-billion takeover offers from Google, while LivingSocial is looking to raise $400-million. At the same time, a slew of group-buying services seem
Last weekend, I went to the Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown Toronto for dinner. It’s a large family-oriented restaurant that’s been around forever. For the most part, little has changed at the Old Spaghetti Factory. The decor and menu are exactly as
In February when it appeared that Bill Gross’ Ubermedia had purchased TweetDeck, the most popular third-party service to use Twitter, it seemed like a huge coup for Ubermedia and a major strategic blunder by Twitter. With about 5% of the market for
As difficult as it might be to believe, it was not that long ago that MySpace dominated the social networking market, and made Facebook look like a pipsqueak. MySpace ruled the roost in such a major way that Rupert Murdoch spent nearly
Would you buy car with no brakes or doors? Would you buy a pair of hockey skates with no blades? What about a laptop with no keyboard? In what can only be a riddle wrapped up in an enigma, Research in Motion
When Magazines Canada asked me to do a presentation on social media and SEO, my immediate reaction was “Well, that’s interesting and different” because it wasn’t a topic I had explored much. In doing research for the presentation, which happened earlier today,
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