StumbleUpon, the Web site discovery browser extension that was born in Calgary but now resides in Silicon Valley, continues to gain momentum. Read/Write Web, one of the more popular tech blogs, has an enthusiastic post citing its Social Bookmarking Faceoff in which StumbleUpon had more users - 1.27 million - than its biggest rival, del.ico.us. Here’s a […]
As the blogosphere becomes increasingly crowded (75,000 new blogs a day, according to Technorati), one of the major challenges is finding high-quality blogs - however you want to define “quality”. Search is one of the tools, although most of the existing vehicles are based on the most recent or most relevant rather than posts worth […]
After months of development, Enquisite has finally gone live in beta. So what’s Enquisite? It’s a very cool and sophisticated tool to analyze search engine traffic. I’ve been using it for the past couple of months and been impressed by its ease of use and wealth of information. Granted, it’s probably not best-suited for a […]
I stumbled across a Web site called Web 2.0 Central this morning, which like Maple Leaf 2.0, looks at what’s going with new services, mashups and companies. The guy behind Web 2.0 Central, Reg Cheramy, also has a called zigtag, a still-in-development startup that promises to help people “search, save and share” information. It […]
Despite the dominance of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the search market, local search is still pretty fertile ground. A company working to crack this nut in Toronto is iBegin, which has created a new search engine to make it much easier to find local restaurants, bar, attractions, stores, events, etc. It includes listings and […]
It could be argued that Toronto-based entrepreneur Evan Heltay has both ends of the spectrum covered with his two online ventures. At one end, Mysummercamps.com is a service that helps parents search among 17,000 summer camps in North America, Europe and Asia. At the other end of the spectrum, Heltay’s RetirementHomes.com provides advice, information and […]
Technology and Web 2.0 News from a Canadian Perspective
Written by Tris Hussey [email] for b5media.
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