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 Saturday, 17 September 2005
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Social future
Robert Scoble has an interesting point of view about Christian Lindholm joining Yahoo!
In the same aggregator scan I found this bit of news on Adverblog about smartphones scanning barcodes with their builtin camera.
The day when we will be able to point a product in any shop and have
instant feedback on a cellphone, maybe to find out that the same
product can be found cheaper two blocks away, is not that far away.
Such an application, able to join mapping, store searching and opinions
while on the go (I'm linking google services simply beacuse I don't
have the Yahoo equivalents at hand) , would be the final step to
overthrow marketing as we know it.
It's going to be fun.
[Via Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
. .< 9:43:31 PM >
CBC 86: Layton to PM, fire Rabinovitch
NDP leader Jack Layton made a brief appearance at the Gala du Cadenas concert at Toronto's Tranzac club Friday. The concert was put together by locked out SRC and Francophone workers at CBC in Toronto.
Layton took the stage between sets by the musicians to slam the lack of coverage of Francophone Canada outside Quebec and then called on Prime Minister Paul Martin to fire CBC President Robert Rabinvotich, a statement that brought loud cheers from the packed club.
Layton's call for Rabinovitch to go is echoed by Antonia Zerbisias in the Toronto Star who asks "Who gave CBC president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch and his appointees, Richard Stursberg, executive vice-president of CBC-TV, and Jane Chalmers, CBC Radio vice-president, the mandate to destroy our national public broadcasting system?"
[Via The Garret Tree]
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