Lots of hubbub and hype about “antennagate” and Apple’s attempts to quash it today with a hastily-prepared press conference. Â But does Apple really need to apologize for a cataclysm which exists largely in the nubbins of traffic-hungry bloggers and...
I am troubled by the heaping pile of dung, in the form of Canada’s Bill C-32, that is attempting to foist an American-style DMCA on unsuspecting and distracted Canadian consumers and, frankly, have been waiting to voice my opinion on said excrement. Â Michael...
Is this the beginning of a rebellion that could turn the tide of goodwill that has nurtured Twitter to prominence against it? I thought, as I read Fred Wilson’s now infamous Inflection Point screed last week, that it foreshadowed something significant. Â Turns...
Matt Cooke, who like most NHL players is actually a nice guy off the ice, seems to suffer from a disorder that makes his on-ice personality the target of the ire of not only his opponents, but even his team-mates. And now, like ripples through a still pond, a...
Over the past way-too-many years I’ve had occasion to interview north of 250 individuals for dozens of positions at both startups and large companies on both sides of the border. Having spent my teething years (professionally) in the maelstrom of Silicon...
Dear Fred — I think your statement: “In the early days of the Internet, when dial-up was king, the telco companies were in the driver’s seat. They had the customer relationships. They had the on-ramp to the Internet. But they did not create Google,...
I’m not usually one to get excited about this sort of stuff, but living as I do at pretty-much the epicentre of the coming Olympics in Vancouver 2010 issues of security, terrorism, and other such hysteria have got my spider-senses tingling. I’m fairly...
I have just realized that FOIB and ianbell.com passed their 10-year anniversary some time in 2009 without me really marking the event. During that time I’ve authored thousands of articles, missives, and comments that have been shared from my online pulpit and...
It was a year that began with such promise. Having elected an African-American democrat, America seemed to be shrugging off eight full years of its most oppressive, incompetent, and deceitful government of the modern era and was moving boldly into a new political...
But I have actually been blogging. Cheating on you, in fact, by writing over at the AppSocial web site.. which is our startup. Here are two articles from Today, even: The iPhone has leapfrogged Windows Mobile Bang for the buck How did the City of Vancouver spend a...
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.
