Archive for Tech
Swagbucks – a positive experience
I joined Swagbucks a little over three months ago. So far, I’ve had a positive experience with them. The way the site works is fairly simple. Instead of using your normal search engine, you use theirs. As you search, you win “Swagbucks”, which accumulate into your account. The search results are based on Ask and [...]
Your Online Rights
Reading the Yahoo! news today, I stumbled upon this article: At virtual vanguard, IBM guidelines govern workers’ avatars My first impression was “Violations of individual’s rights”. But maybe, its not. Reading the article, it appears that the policy is only to ‘govern’ the employees when they are meeting with clients in Second Life (wow, I want [...]
Joost
I was lucky enough to find an invite to the Joost beta. I’ve been playing with it for a day or so and I’m impressed. www.joost.ca If you want me in, give me a comment with your email or send me a message on facebook.
Coldwell Banker selling Real Estate on Second Life
Coldwell Banker has set up shop in Second Life. You can read the article: CNN Money Article Taxing Virtual Income This begins to pull back into question my previous posts – how do we tax online business that doesn’t bring in real money? Should the fees that Coldwell Banker pays to keep accounts and purchase [...]
Electronic Voting and You
Dr. Michael Geist has weighed in on electrionic voting. You can read the Toronto Star article here: Time To Cast A Vote Against E-Voting. It is an interesting read, and also brings up alot of concerns regarding e-voting.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is pretty cool. Alot nicer to look at than most of the other free trackers you can get. The standard view gives you 4 views of your site traffic: a line graph of a Views and Pageviews; a pie chart of views by new and returning visitors; a pie chart of views by [...]
