If you’re reading this post, it’s no thanks to Dreamhost. The past few days I have noticed my web traffic dropping off substantially. I pay $15/mo. plus an annual fee for their Private Server offering in order to host this and a few other blogs. I...
The funny thing about Canadians is that we’re not very good at standing in the limelight. While our neighbours to the South take their star turns for such staggering feats as winning a game show, it is a uniquely Canadian attribute that some of our greater...
In this series I will be posting pieces semi-monthly containing my philosophies on web marketing, product design and conception, and of course Entrepreneurship. While the title looks like a grammatical error, it ain’t. “Great” is what your ideas,...
This Christmas season I used the downtime supplied by most of my peers taking two weeks off of work (can you say downturn?) to get around to a number of highly geeky personal projects on my residence’s IT network. Aided by the web (and knowing which...
Welcome, Mats Sundin, to Vancouver. I will enjoy the six months you spend in our fair city, but I won’t expect to see you for much long afterward. In the meantime, I hope that too many deckchairs aren’t reordered to make room for you, because all of...
We all have our stories of a family’s sacrifice in wars. Mine is not very much different. In 1914, the dominion of Canada was prevailed upon to ship nearly ten percent of its population across the Atlantic to pursue a fruitless and unnecessary war. Ten...
Last week I penned a column for GigaOm which has been picked up by BusinessWeek. Here’s an excerpt: “VoIP is dead,†Skype General Manager of Voice and Video Jonathan Christensen declared at an industry conference a few weeks ago. He spoke...
Last week I stopped by the new Irish Heather for a fireside chat about all things hockey with DaveO, ostensibly to promote my team management service, RosterBot. I really enjoyed the chat, and DaveO got me a wee bit tipsy on Kilt Lifter ale and elicited my opinions on...
With the season firing up last week I encouraged my friends at Terapeak to take a look at the transaction data around the various franchises on eBay. Here’s what they came up with … not entirely unexpected.
Hey, Mr. Hedge Fund genius… times are about to get tough as New York’s streets get rougher from all those homeless former high-risk mortgage-holders, newly laid off by their investment bank employers. But you’re still doing OK, thanks to the U.S....
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
