FacebookWeekend Beta Wrap-Up

First of all, thanks to all of the organizers and volunteers who participated in the planning and running of our event. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and it’s great to see so much support for entrepreneurship. Facebook Weekend BETA was very productive and a number of different teams made significant progress on their projects. All […]

Flash in TO v65 Review

Flash in TO v65 was on last night, it was my first Flash in TO event and I knew almost nobody there. The event was at Element 156, which is on Augusta St, near Dundas. It’s a pretty neat environment with the front of the store setup as a shop/bar and the back of the […]

CaseCamp Toronto 6 Review

CaseCamp Toronto 6 was last night at the Century Club.   CaseCamp is marketing version of DemoCamp with marketing case studies instead of Demos. As always the room was packed and there was a lot socializing going on before the event. This time the Century Club was divided so that there was a socializing area and […]

Facebook Weekend BETA Announcement

refresh partners has been working with Innovation Toronto to help organize a weekend focused around developing Facebook applications.  FWB ( Facebook Weekend Beta ) is a combination of the Barcamp adhoc unconference and the StartupWeekend concept. It brings together entrepreneurs, Facebook developers, and designers to create products over a weekend. It’s a fun (and productive) […]

Openness

I wrote earlier about StartupCamp and I was impressed to see all the companies that have applied disclosed as part of the review process. Anyone can see the applicants here: StartupCampToronto1 I’m a big fan of openness as part of a review process. I think it helps both the quality of the event and the […]

FacebookCampMontreal Review

FacebookCampMontreal We were in Montreal last night for the FacebookCampMontreal event, its was our first time in Montreal as part of their Barcamp community. The FacebookCampMontreal event combined both the developer and marketing tracks into a single night and was able to get nearly 200 people in the SAT (Société des Arts Technologiques ). SAT […]

StartupCampToronto Announcement

StartupCampToronto has been announced after the success of StartupCampWaterloo. The concept is essentially that 5 startup’s get 5 mins each to pitch the audience on their company and get feedback. Kinda like a Dragon’s Den with the audience as the Dragon’s… I ‘m excited about the concept but a little unsure of the format. As […]

OpenSocial sounds great, can it deliver?

The Google OpenSocial API sounds really cool and brings together the ability to ability to write web applications and widgets for multiple platforms. Launch partners include : hi5 LinkedIn Plaxo Ning SixApart Google’s own Orkut At first glance it would seem Google has collected all the losers in the social media space and got them […]

DemoCampToronto15 Review

Its been awhile since I’ve written about a DemoCamp but DemoCampToronto15 was yesterday afternoon at Hart House in the University of Toronto campus. The University of Toronto did a great job organizing/hosting. DemoCamp was in the grand hall of the Hart House, which is awesome local for presentation and mingling. Unfortunately even with the time […]

Pragmatic Marketing Networking Event

Pragmatic Marketing held its network event in Toronto last night. Pragmatic Marketing is one of the leading training companies for Product Managers. Rich Nutinsky presented on “Start with the Ending” which really focused on thinking where you want to get to with your product line. Rich also spoke at length about building credibility with your […]

Romanian NewWave Cinema

Last night was the Romanian NewWave Cinema’s first film night at the University of Toronto. The night consisted of 6 short films with one longer feature film. All the films were shown in Romanian with English subtitles. I had never seen any Romanian films so it was an interesting night to see some of the […]

Play Review: DYAD @ Fringe 07

I’ve been following the Praxis Theatre group for awhile mainly because of Laura Nordin’s involvement. I’ve attended their reading series in the spring and was exited when their annouced DYAD as part of Fringe Festival this year. If you’re not familar with the Fringe Festival is a collection of smaller/independent plays that take place around […]

Movie Review: Sicko

Michael Moore movies have been a favourite of mine since watching Roger & Me years ago with my dad. He has a great ability to connect with people and provide a direct response to their indignities but I felt that his last movie, was too sensational. I like Michael Moore when he’s using other people […]

Movie Review: Transformers

I grew up with Transformers and after Starwars they were probably the childhood brand that I could identity with the most. Most Saturday mornings featured Transformers and G.I.Joe back to back but the Transformers were much better at merchandising their cartoon and I ended up with many of the toys. So needless to say I […]

Movie Review: Live Free or Die Hard ( Diehard 4 )

Its been awhile since I’ve seen a Bruce Willis film and he as reputation for delivering great action movies. Live Free or Die Hard sure doesn’t disappoint in the action category with some amazing stunts and an action packed plot line. As someone who’s worked in network security and followed the field for awhile it […]