I’m going to be incredibly uncreative and call it the “web ceiling”.

What I mean by this is as active, connected users, we have a group of useful tools that we regularly use. And yes, the companies that provide these tools will and can become massive in size and very successful. I’m talking about the Facebooks, the Twitters (now), and the Googles. There is, however, a limit to the amount of these regular tools that we use: a ceiling.

There is not enough attention and time available in our busy lives to devote to another jesus-tool. The switching costs increase every day we use these things, because we are building our lives around it. Younger people will attest to this. And yes, I will probably never stop using Google as my main tool for e-mail and search, but hey, never say never.

In any case, I believe that the big question now should not be, who is going to be the next Twitter? – we should instead be asking: how can we, as unique individuals, find the next niche tools that we can use for our specific situations? I call it micro-niching; and similar to Seth Godin’s “tribe” concept: this is now related to product development and marketing.

As we micro-niche, we build a concept of how a company can create multiple micro-niches of a similar theme but utilize the technology available today to customize tools to a situation.

For instance, as an entrepreneur, a business owner, a graphic designer, a hockey player, and an addicted traveler: what tool can bring all my services together in a meaningful, semantic way, and what product will not just simply add to my already full roster of “regular” large and bulky tools, but can be nimble and evolving with my needs?

Just a thought.

I apologize that this has been my only update in the past few weeks, but I’d like to share a new term with the twittersphere: Fweet.

That’s right, tweet + fart. Inspired by the tweeting fart chair. I could’ve gone with twart, but I think fweet has more onomatopoeic sentiments.

Please feel free to retweet this if you ever feel like fweeting. Or you could refweet it.

Verdict: PARK ANYWHERE, AND DON’T PAY EVERYBADY!!!

Verdict: The Court ruled against UBC, and ticketing is illegal, and people are allowed to recoup their losses.

More details to come (check this post for constant updates as they come).

• 4:47pm- full verdict document: Judge Goepel Re: Barbour v. The University of British Columbia (warning: it’s long)
• 8:19pm- areas of verdict to pay attention to:

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Considering the merits of this matter, it is noteworthy that almost half of UBC’s tickets go unpaid. The person who has been penalized by UBC’s regime is the good citizen whose natural instinct is to trust that UBC has the power to impose the Parking Regulation Fines and pays the fine when it is demanded. There is something fundamentally unfair that those good citizens should not recover the money that UBC had no right to collect in the first instance.

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The Parking Regulation Fines are ultra vires. UBC cannot enter contracts or licenses that incorporate the Parking Regulation Fines. UBC’s common law proprietary rights authorize the towing and storage of vehicles parked contrary to the Parking Regulations. UBC is entitled to collect the costs arising from such towing. UBC cannot, however, rely on its proprietary rights to charge or collect the Parking Regulation Fines. The plaintiff and other class members are entitled to restitution in the amount of the Parking Regulation Fines subject only to applicable defences under the Limitations Act, towing and storage charges and the applicability of UBC’s claim of set-off which has yet to be resolved.

• 10:27am – April 1st – CBC article about the verdict here.

Credit: Fubiz.net

• Cut, copy & paste
• Voice memos app
• Landscape typing on major apps
• Stream music over bluetooth to devices (i.e. wireless headphone, wireless speakers)
• Push notifications (instant messaging notifications while your app is off)
• System-wide search (spotlight for the iPhone)
• MMS!
• Tethering!!!!
• Play peer-to-peer games over bluetooth and wifi
• Ingame voice chat!
• Turn-by-turn directions for certain apps that choose to build it in
• Some apps can now charge you more money INSIDE the app for additional game levels and other features, etc etc. (this will be really annoying)