Thinkpads, still the best…

Great Lenovo commercial based on the Macbook Air commercial. I still love my Thinkpad and I think X300 would be great laptop, except without Vista…

MeshU Schedule

The mesh guys have finalized the MeshU schedule with a great line-up for startups, and anyone building for the web.  MeshU is a one-day seminar, separate from the Mesh Conference, that focuses on web startups.   The day features 12 workshops and 3 streams ( design, development, management ). I think the series highlights for me […]

Early funding, for early exits?

I attended Rick Segal’s VC round table last week, which was also attended by Susan Dingwall Williams and Scott Pelton.   It was a good forum to discuss the VC community and the funding process for startups.   One area I was surprised with was the agreement from both Rick and Scott that they wanted to involved […]

Well.ca gets Funding

Well.ca has announced funding today from a group angels, including the Maple Leaf Angels in Toronto. I first met Ali Asaraia, Well.ca founder & CEO, at a Maple Leaf Angels breakfast meeting. I was impressed with how well Ali presented the opportunity and I knew it was only a matter of time before he’d getting […]

Can Social Network Monetize?

I’ve been reading alot about Social Networks and concerns over their ability to monetize.   I’m not really too sure why there is a belief that social networks can’t be monetized.  Myspace the guerillia in the space, and arguably still the leading Social Network in the US, has been monetizing just fine.    Fox Interactive is reporting […]

Adobe openning the door for Silverlight?

Adobe has announced some major security changes in Flash 9.   Many of these changes break network enabled Flash applications.  Most notable applications that use any of the following: You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the domain to which you are connecting You use addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders in any network API call when sending or […]