Google being crafty to push Google Plus

You have to give the folks over at Google credit. They might have been slow out of the blocks launching their social media site Google+, but they’re doing everything they can to make sure it takes off now – and not everyone is pleased about it. On Thursday Google CEO Larry Page laid out his [...] Read more »

How HTML 5 will usher in Web 3.0 – and why you should care

The latest buzzword in the web world is HTML5. For web designers and developers it’s old news, having actually been around for years. It hit the news more recently, though, when former Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote a public letter arguing that Adobe’s Flash was dead and HTML5 was the future. For anyone outside the [...] Read more »

Memo to parents: Hockey is supposed to be fun

Between the World Junior hockey championships hosted in my home province and coaching two completely hockey-crazy boys – along with a few other things – hockey has been on my mind a lot lately. That’s why a recent column by Joe O’Connor prompted me to write the letter below, that was today published in the National [...] Read more »

Hockey is more than a game

Writing about anything more personal than my take on new technology isn’t something I’m real comfortable with. I tend to avoid anything more personal than bragging about my kids – or complaining about them, as the case may be. But something touched my life last summer that stuck with me, changed my perspective, and inspired [...] Read more »

Google+ ‘Circles’ its killer new feature?

Aside from a cleaner interface with no games and ads, the differences between Facebook and Google+ are not all that significant. Except for Google’s ‘circles’. Google+ is set up so that when you add ‘friends’ you also assign them to one or more ‘circles’. That means you can categorize people into friends, family, colleagues, people [...] Read more »

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