_This is part of our new “Interesting”:http://www.onedegree.ca/category/interesting feature “we announced in April”:http://www.onedegree.ca/2006/04/25/whats-interesting-in-canada but then lost track of. If you have an “interesting” site you think we should feature let us know._
Recently I asked Ahmed Farooq from “iBegin.com”:http://www.ibegin.com/ to explain what makes his site interesting.
*One Degree: Who needs you?*
Anyone (in Toronto… for now) frustrated by local search.
*One Degree: Why do they need you?*
Simply because the current crop of local search sites (and Internet yellowpages) are rather craptastic. That’s right – I said crap.
*One Degree: Why are you interesting?*
We are completely self-funded, with no interest for external capital. There is no exit plan that comprises of a hopeful eye towards the usual suspects for a financially delicious buyout. We even have a philosophy that guides us. Local search with a mix of zen.
*One Degree: How do you make money?*
We do not right now. We are on target to become self-sufficient by 2007.
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Traditionally many CMA(Canadian Marketing Association) members have included the “CMA”:http://www.the-cma.org logo on their direct marketing materials. But companies have been slower to adopt the logo on their websites.
The association recently sent a _Member Briefing_ explaining the “Look for the Logo” program and pointing members to the new logos.
bq. CMA Members are encouraged to display the member logo on all their marketing communications, including their website, envelopes, flyers, inserts and in print and online advertisements. Program guidelines and materials, including a new interactive banner and button for member websites and e-marketing campaigns, can be “downloaded from the CMA website.”:http://www.the-cma.org/membership/logos/?dept=PAC&page=LFTL
This is very cool. Toronto web design shop “Radiant Core”:http://www.radiantcore.com/ just “announced that it will be creating the skin for the next major version of Firefox.”:http://www.radiantcore.com/blog/archives/12/07/2006/skinningafox
bq. At any rate, it is with the greatest of pride that we hereby announce and proclaim that Radiant Core has been retained by Mozilla to design and implement the official theme for the Firefox 2 release! We’ve actually been hard at work on it for a few weeks, polishing pixels and zooming through XUL, but very much in stealth mode.