IAB Canada drinking their own Kool-Aid?

Online advertising growth in Canada is taking off. IAB Canada just released their report on 2006 growth and it was 80% over the 2005. While I have great respect for the IAB I thought their summary of reasons for the growth were extremely weak. One of the biggest trends in advertising is the consumer shift […]

DemoCampToronto13 Review

After the last DemoCampToronto the process to Demo was re-factored and the time for demos generally shortened to 5 mins. In many cases past DemoCamp slots were full months in advance and a limited number of demos could happen in one evening. With the shorter time slot more demos could take place and even if […]

Really Hotdocs

Hotdocs 2007 is on next week, if you not familiar with HotDocs, it’s a documentary film festival in Toronto. The line of films looks great and Hotdocs.ca is really well done. It really makes the Toronto International Film Festival site look dated. The site has some great social features too: ability to create you own […]

Canada’s Mobile Internet Failure

Tom Purves has done a great comparison of the data rates in Canada compared with the rest of the world. The CRTC has a done a horrible job with mobile services and data service in particular. The mobile internet was intended to be the great equalizer since many people don’t have access to a computer […]

Date set for DemoCampToronto13

The date has been set for the next Toronto DemoCamp, its going to be April 24 at No Regrets. The process to demoing has been refactored and the Demo schedule is as follows: Invited: Mike Beltzner Mozilla (15 minutes) Invited: Betsy Weber TechSmith (15 minutes) Break (10 minutes) Demos – 5 minutes each (these should […]