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I am off to Toronto this weekend attending the Mesh Conference. It is a conference organized to look at the Web 2.0 North of the Border. It is already sold out. I am going to be doing a short keynote, that will be followed by a fireside chat with my good friend Mark Evans. I [...]

GTalkr, a web-based GTalk client developed by Wes and Dudley Carr has been put to rest. The Flash-based client was impressive enough, but I guess with the advent of embedded Gtalk inside GTalk, made it a bit redundant. The Carrs have joined Google, and will work on GTalk in the future. And Google does need [...]

This week’s hot meme has many of the thought leaders, investors and pundits doing a bit of hand wringing about the whole Web 2.0 thing. Some have called for a sanity check, and others called it a bubblet.
The discussion flared up when Josh Kopelman, a well known angel investor, wrote that many of the Web [...]

The Brits love their iPods. We heard about them outfitting big warships with iPod docks. And now comes word via Niall that the upscale shirt maker, Thomas Pink is cranking out shirts made for iPods.
The Commuter shirt has a special concealed pocket for mp3 player and hidden casing for headphone wires as well as a [...]

A little birdie tells us that there has been a slight re-org at Yahoo. As part of this game of musical chairs, Yahoo’s in-house VoIP guru, Brad Garlinghouse, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Communications, Communities and Front Doors (CCF). He used to handle the Communication Products (Mail, Messenger, Voice, Photos and [...]