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I’ve been following the foursquare and gowalla hoopla for almost a year and to be quite frank, it made no sense to me. Why wound I want to ‘checkin’ when I’m at a coffee shop? Just to get points, win a badge and maybe be the ‘mayor’. Don’t get that. Scobles blog post today hit the head on the name with what is missing and has some useful suggestions on how to make this class of app useful. The idea is that your social graph should adjust based on what you are doing. And for this to happen, we need a more sophisticated reputation system.

Getting decent broadband internet in rural areas has always been a real challenge. And I’m one who believes that broadband internet is a required / essential service, just like roads and electricity. For all the talk that there has been about equal access to broadband for all Canadians, I’ve yet to see the government [...]

In the tech world, once you have something working, you tend stick with it for a long time. I’ve been using Zoneedit to host my various DNS domains for almost 10 years. But today, I’m switching to DnsMadeEasy.
This is being driven by Zoneedit’s Dynamic DNS limitations. Specifically, when you update the IP [...]