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The Week That Was - 2006-12-01

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A quick snapshot of some of the stories from across the net and of the stories we talked about list week.

- Google Answers calls it quits; and Yahoo! has the Answers

- Death to the Page View, frequent visitor to Toronto, prominent blogger and seasoned PR professional Steve Rubel (employed by Edelman has a great post detailing why page views is a dying standard for website measurement have been great but as technologies such as Ajax, Flash become adopted more to develop sites we’ll move towards a new measurement standard

- Research In Motion (RIM) acquired Epoch Integration which is a Toronto based blackberry developer (not I know why CEO, Ramon Tavares had a grin on his face last time I passed by him on the street a few months ago), their NeedTEXT monitoring solution will be integrated into a future release of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.

- strategy’s Agency of the Year 2006 - Rethink takes hold the GOLD

- Fido continues to change the Canadian wireless market - Fido (owned by Rogers) celebrates 10 years, Happy Birthday!

- Mamma’s getting a new job - Mamma.com wants to make it easier for you to search for your next job

- Yahoo! Canada’s bringing the Sexy Back - Yahoo! Canada’s is looking to capture a bigger piece of the SEM piece with the pending launch of their new platform

- YouTube + MySpace = justforlaughs.ca - Just For Laughs looks to build an online community and make millions laugh a little bit more
- Who’s on the Move - 2006-12-01 - new hires and promotions

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