Skyway Recommended November 26th to December 9th

Each Monday we’ll pass on links to articles we thought were well worth reading from the previous week, kind of a Digg-lite for those who live where we do (British Columbia, Canada), work like we do (high speed business internet), and think like we do (internet trends, internet privacy, cutting-edge technology, etc.). If you don’t want to wait ’til Monday, we usually tweet and link to these as we come across them…

NewsTalk650: What you should know about illegal downloading in Canada

The Canadian music and film industry now has more streamlined options to punish the people who are still downloading movies or music, but a local copyright lawyer explains it’s not likely to happen very often. Read More…

Business Insider: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL MEDIA [Slide Deck]

BI hosted our IGNITION: Future of Digital conference on November 27-28 in New York. To kick off the conference, our BI Intelligence team—Marcelo Ballvé, Alex Cocotas, and I—put together a deck on the current trends in digital media. View the Slides…

TechCrunch: Mary Meeker’s Year-End Trends Report

Kleiner Perkins Partner Mary Meeker published her annual “Internet Trends Year-End Report” tonight, providing an update on the glimpse she gave us into mobile trends back in November. As per usual, the Kleiner partner’s biggest conclusions are somewhat familiar: Internet growth remains robust, and penetration in the U.S. leads all other countries. Read More…

Search Consumerization: Do personal cloud storage and file-sharing services threaten IT’s control over corporate data?

Personal cloud storage and file-sharing services remain technology non grata in IT departments. Unfortunately for IT, they’re getting a whole lot easier for employees to use. The latest example comes from Dropbox, whose new Chooser service lets users access their data from other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. The danger of cloud storage and file-sharing services extending into other apps is that it takes away even more of IT’s control over corporate data. Read More…

CNET: How to spot fake user reviews while shopping online

While you’re busy shopping online this holiday season, chances are you’ll see lots of user reviews on various products. While the majority of those reviews do come from real users like yourself, who are passionate enough to share their opinions on a product, many of them could be fake, left by the vendors themselves to either promote their product or, in some cases, smear competitors. Read More…