I’ve read with interest the article from Katie and (as usual) the all-over-the-place commentary from the readers @ GigaOM’s article on Mobile Social Networks. While I’m not really sure exactly how an iPod is allegorical to mobile social networking I...
I really have no idea why I think this is so funny, but I do. The Ms.Alexis Tyler Show teaches us all about sexual politics and I, for one, am grateful. My favourite quote: “…but I got a Masters Degree in gettin’ played by men.”...
The Vancouver technology scene is populated by a small number of entrepreneurs and leaders. Imagine my joy, when I moved back here, to discover another guy who was interested in SIP and wanted to create a company to monetize the many opportunities within that arena....
As the Stanley Cup playoffs rage on, a select crew of Canadian players whose teams are out of the running are over in Moscow defending Canada’s great cultural hockey tradition at the IIHF Hockey World Championships. The 2007 team, which was given a pass this...
If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these...
Eric Cheng has just rocked his MacBook Pro. He installed a second hard drive called the MCE Optibay which replaces your internal SuperDrive with a standard notebook hard drive and took it a step further by striping the disks (RAID 0). This gives him a pretty big...
Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the...
I’m back. Looking forward to sharing ideas and communicating my deepest, innermost thoughts in this roadside confessional. I think this blogging thing may be taking off. More on why I’m online here. Thanks to Riki Tiki Tavi for her invaluable help getting...
So, my Motorola DCT6412 Packed it in over the weekend (note to self: add ventilation to my entertainment console… plasma TVs, Receivers, PVRs, AppleTVs, and XBOX360s can generate lots of heat) and I swapped it with my cable company, Shaw Cable, for a newer...
Some folks wanna put warning labels on Soft Drinks. I think that, just to be sure, the US should install warning labels on all fingers indicating that putting them in proximity to one’s mouth while holding food could result in dire obesity, particularly in North...
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.
