My Presentation at Facebook Garage
We had a great event last night at Mars for the Facebook Developers Garage Toronto. It was our 6th event and we had a great crowd and speakers. My presentation on the Open Graph API is available here: Facebook Open Graph API View more presentations from Colin Smillie. We’ll try to get the other presentations […]
The Legality of Groupon?
Groupon has really taken off in Canada. I think mainly because many popular restaurants have been available as Groupons and that has driven alot of adoption. One of my favourite restaurants, Utopia Cafe sold almost 1500 Groupons during their promotion. Today’s Groupon is for the very popular Table 17 Restaurant If you’re not familar with […]
Facebook Developer Garage Toronto – Oct 21, 2010
It’s been a while since the last Facebook Developer Garage Toronto. Come meet with fellow developers, marketers and agencies, members of the Facebook community in Toronto. Formerly we called these Facebook Camps and its a great free event for Developers and Marketers. The evening is free to attend and we have a great line up […]
Campaigning with Social Media
I’ve been watching the Mayoral campaign in Toronto with a lot interest this year, mainly because I wanted to see how the candidates used Social Media. In the Obama campaign in 2008 Social Media is often credited with having a great impact. With my own limited involvement watching the campaign from Canada I was impressed […]
Why is Point of Sale getting harder?
Like most Canadians my credit card was recently replaced with a Chip Card. Now my Visa requires a PIN to be entered when the transaction is processed. This creates some very frustration experiences: 1/ No Remote Machine Many restaurants only have Visa terminals in one location in the restaurant. This means that I have to […]
The Problem with Facebook Groups…
Yesterday Facebook launched an upgrade to the Facebook Group functionality, the details of the new features are available here. I think the more interesting thing is what is missing, the mainly one being the ability for groups to choose their own relationship and communication style. There is still no good way to maintain a […]