DemoCampToronto8 Review

DemoCampToronto8 took place last night at No Regrets. The usual crowd was all there with the addition of Amber Mac and Leo Leoporte from the Inside the Net podcast and their TV show Call for Help. The venue was improved by the rental of an audio system help everyone hear the presentations. One big advantage […]

Hard or Soft, how do you like to launch?

There’s seems to be a new approach to launching a website redesign. If you’ve been following the Yahoo home page design since February you’ve probably seen their new site and had the option to swap between the new and old designs for several weeks. Yahoo has only recently started forcing moving users to use the […]

CBC + Open Source

Its recently been revealed how the CBC powers its websites using Open Source software. This software is essentially free to use and its continually improved by a variety of developers around world that contribute their improvements for free. Its great to see a pseudo government organization and especially a media company using the advantages of […]

Canada as a Web Powerhouse

Over the past few months I’ve been very impressed with the quality of startups in Toronto and Canada in general. The list of startups that I’ve interacted with include: BubbleShare FreshBooks Nuvvo WildApricot And recently Flickr took the web by storm for photo sharing. There seems to be more and more every few weeks, most […]

MythTV Usability

I’ve been using MythTV for about 2 years now and at times its been a challenge to keep it running. One of the reason I keep coming back to it is that I find it to be the easiest PVR to use. Recently a usability study of MythTV was done by Interactive Digital Television Laboratory […]

DemoCampToronto7 Review

DemoCampToronto7 was last night a quite crowed No Regrets. Its a fairly small venue so space was a premium and the demos were a little harder to understand without the lights, sounds and magic that its Mars. The presentations broke down as follows: 1/ Portal Prophet Platform by Kristan Uccello from Domainer My initial expectation […]