Thursday, August 9, 2007

It’s all about the food

by alec on August 9, 2007

If you’ve been reading me for a while, you know that two of my passions in life are food and photography. It’s even better when you can mix the two! So, here’s two recent food oriented photo’s.

Last night Howard and I had dinner with fellow blogger and VoIP master Andy Abramson. We ate at Moishe’s in Montreal… one of the great steakhouses in North America. And it was Andy’s birthday. Here he is, wearing one of his trademark Tommy Bahama shirts, posing with his half eaten cake. Happy Birthday Andy!

And this morning, Mrs. Saunders headed home for a couple of days to visit her 84 year old mother, leaving me with Chris and Jon, aged 18 and 16 respectively. What should 3 men eat for dinner? Hot wings… of course! Two kilos. They’ll be ready in about 30 minutes. If you live close to Manotick, you’re welcome to drop by.

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Advertising on mobile phones

by alec on August 9, 2007

Apparently the big online giants, sensing a win in the mobile world, are experimenting with the use of "pop-up" advertising on mobile devices. One of the reasons the Google Adsense model has been so powerful and well accepted is contextual targeting. It makes the ads pertinent, and unobtrusive. Let's hope the mobile advertisers take a page from Googles book, and figure out how to do this unobtrusively. I can think of few things more annoying than the current pop-up advertisements we see on the web today.

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Creating a wireless free market… through regulation.

August 9, 2007

I think my friend Mark Goldberg is pulling my leg. After all, Mark has pointed to a NY Times op-ed about the FCC's decision to deliver half of the Open Access requirements asked for by Google, and said "apparently, the US wireless market is primitive, and doomed to stay that way". Mark favours unrestricted use [...]

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