Two recent rulings by CIRA have Bell and Canada Post winning rulings against typo-domains. Click through for links…
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_Ken King is a serial entrepreneur on his way to becoming an angel investor, with current interests in five businesses and several others in negotiation. His core business is “King Marketing, Advertising & Communications Inc.”:http://www.kingmarketing.ca, which provides creative and consulting services to its clients. Since completing an MBA at Queen’s University, Ken has expanded his consulting practice to include coaching entrepreneurs on business planning, strategy and operations._
*One Degree: What is Enablr?*
“Enablr”:http://www.enablr.com is simply a front-end for real human beings who are going to “transcribe your podcast”:www.enablr.com/transcribr/ or “print out and mail your letter”:http://www.enablr.com/stenographr/. We just make it easy by eliminating a lot of the messy stuff that you would normally do to connect with those human beings.
In a larger sense it’s an experiment in listening to people, identifying a need and then doing something about it – quickstyle.
*One Degree: It took you 19 days to go from a concept to being a fully-functioning business with real revenue. It took One Degree six weeks to do the same – I feel like a dinosaur! What does this rapid level of innovation mean for traditional businesses?*
_This article is by Guest Contributor Jon Lax._
It’s no secret that newspapers have had a hard time lately. The financial engine of the newspaper business has for many years been classifieds. Something like $7 billion in classified revenues has just disappeared since 1997 (US stats) and it’s not coming back. People just aren’t looking for cars, jobs or general merchandise in the newspaper like they used to. Sites like “eBay”:http://www.ebay.ca, “craigslist”:http://www.craigslist.com, “Autotrader”:http://www.autotrader.ca, “Monster”:http://www.monster.ca provide a better and cheaper product.
“CanWest”:http://www.canwest.com/ is launching a series of sites to put innovative classifieds products online. We were asked to participate in the redesign/relaunch of the auto classifieds product called “driving.ca”:http://www.driving.ca.