CaseCampToronto5 Roundup

CaseCamp was back in action last night at the Century Room. As always Eli Singer and the Casecamp team had a great line up of marketing cases and the place was packed. I really impressed with the turn out, my estimate was there was close to 200 people there. The presentation area and seating were […]

Mesh07 Wrap and Final Thoughts

I missed most of the Mesh07 Wrap but it didn’t seem like a lot of people stayed for it either. It was a muggy day and most of us had been out late the night before. The socializing moved over to thePoque Mahones and it seemed pretty quiet there too. Overall I thought Mesh07 was […]

Mesh07 Day2 Sessions

The afternoon sessions on day 2 were great. I focused on probably the smallest room and it allow for more intimate discussions: How to Pitch VCs with Rick Segal and Susan Dingwall Williams I read both Rick and Susan’s blogs regularly and I was excited to see both of them. Rick did a great job […]

Mesh07 Day 2 KickOff with Craigslist

Mesh07 Day 2 kicked off with a bit a little weak with the PR session with Richard Eldeman. Unless you were really into PR this one was difficult to handle. The 2nd keynote was a big hit with Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist. Working at Trader Corporation I’ve followed Craigslist for awhile so it […]

Mesh07 Day 1 Thoughts

Day 1 of Mesh 2007 is complete and I think my overall impression is that Mesh continues to be a great conference to network but the sessions were fairly weak. Many of the sessions are panelist based and lacked diversity. For example the new vs old media lacked anyone from the old media. This made […]

Mesh07 Kicks Off

The Mesh 2007 Conference kicked off today with a great line up of speakers and panelists. One of the great aspects of the Mesh Conference is the social interaction between speakers. Its a great environment to interact with speakers and other members of the industry. One of the dominate themes I’m seeing at this years […]

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 […]

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 […]

Toronto Autshow 2007

As part of my day job I’m now actively involved with running a lot of events and I attend almost every major consumer show in the Toronto area. The annual Autoshow is back in town and all the local media is a buzz with Automotive news. I was at the show on Friday with my […]

Movie Review : Children of Men

I saw Children of Men a few weeks ago and I still think about it often. If you’re not familiar with the movie the premise is that the birth rate has dropped to zero and there hasn’t been a baby is years. Nobody is really sure why people can no longer conceive but the world […]

DemoCampToronto12 Review

DemoCamp was back on last night at No Regrets. Its been a busy week in Toronto with TransitCamp yesterday and GreenCamp tomorrow. Last night featured the following: Mozilla Contributions by David Humphrey David talked about his students involvement with the Mozilla open source project and some of the different components they have been able to […]

Final Thoughts on TransitCamp

TransitCamp yesterday was a blast, in a lot of ways a bigger event than the superbowl. The organizers did an awesome job of putting it together and everyone was very positive around improving the TTC. The TTC employees that attended were open to ideas, even ideas they were already considering or developing. Adam Giambrone was […]

NewMindSpace Subway Parties

NewMindSpace presented their Subway Parties at TransitCamp and their experience with organizing parties on public transport. Subway parties have been around for awhile but they’ve been using the web and technology to organize them. They try to provide limited notice of the party to avoid more than 250 people filling a subway car. They also […]

TransitCamp Starts

TorontoTransitCamp has just started at the GladStone Hotel. Theres about a 100 people involved and we’ve just broken out into sessions. The grid is pretty full already and I’m in a session on debugging the TTC. We’re talking alot of about using software tools to help the TTC track problems and feedback. Details available here: […]