No Refresh for Yellowpages.ca

For disclosure I think its important to get out that I use to work for the Yellowpages Group when they purchased Autotrader.ca. It was with some humour today that I got a call from the local Yellowpages rep about a free business listing for Refresh Partners. YPG ( Yellowpages Group ) sells advertising as a […]

Metronauts Launches

The Metronauts.ca site has launched and is accepting registrations for the next TransitCamp.  I attended first TransitCamp it and it was great event for discussion various transit related issues.  I think this time around the TransitCamp is looking for a more diverse crowd and I think I would just be another  internet geek, when they […]

Lots of attention on Canadian Startups

There has been a lot of attention lately on the technology startups in Canada. We’ve had very successful StartupCamps in Waterloo, Montreal and Toronto and even mainstream media is starting to notice. There are also a number of events focusing on helping startups: Canadian Innovation Exchange This is probably one of the bigger events and […]

The dark side of Cloud Computing…

Over the last few years I’ve been a strong advocate of moving most of my computing the cloud based services.  I’ve been using Gmail for all my email, including my business email.  I use Google Reader now for all my RSS feeds and often I’m using Google Docs to share files with colleagues.  I’m also […]

Facebook working the Media

Facebook seems to be changing their approach to communicating new features/functionality.  In the past Facebook would just use their blog or the developer blog to communicate new functionality.  Media sites and other blogs would then pick the new features and write about them.  The approach worked reasonably well but wasn’t really inline with traditional PR […]

IE 8 Virtual Machines

I’m a little late on this but one of the funniest announcements of out of  MIX08 was the IE 8 Virtual Machines announcement.  I’ve been running the IE8 Beta which was also launched at MIX08, mainly because I badly broke IE 7 trying to get a version of IE6 installed for testing. The new IE8 […]