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) […]
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 […]
Open Source Strategy in the Patent Cold War
Microsoft has recently started making noise about Linux patent infringement again. Microsoft has maintained a license rather than litigate approach for years and they signed a license deal recently with Novell to allow them license for their Linux installation. The only thing new is the number of patents that Microsoft claims that Linux infringes on, […]
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 […]
Canada’s Mobile Internet Failure
Tom Purves has done a great comparison of the data rates in Canada compared with the rest of the world. The CRTC has a done a horrible job with mobile services and data service in particular. The mobile internet was intended to be the great equalizer since many people don’t have access to a computer […]
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 […]
I’ve been Joost’d
I got a Joost account a few weeks ago but didn’t really use it much until I connected it to my TV. I’ve been long time MythTV user and the idea of getting video content over the internet sounded great. Currently Joost only supports Windows and Mac platforms so I needed to install Joost on […]
Classmates, give it up
I was sucked by Classmates spam about a new feature claiming to show you all your former Classmates on a map. You can see the BC map from my High School ( Sir Allen MacNab in Hamilton ) here: I think most people have experienced Classmates.com. If you haven’t check out, you can register to […]
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 […]
PS2 Leads Xmas Sales
Sales numbers are in from the Holidays and Sony’s Playstation 2 still dominated the season. The breakdown of console sales for Dec, 2006 were: Playstation2 with 1.2M sold Microsoft Xbox360 with 1.1M sold Nintendo Wii with 604K sold Playstation3 with 400K sold The PS2 xmas sales are on top of approximately 100M units already in […]
Iphone vs Blackberry, Looking at the Supporting Infrastructure
Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ve probably seen something about the new Apple iPhone and probably heard something about it being a BlackBerry killer. In isolation the iPhone looks a pretty cool phone with its multi-touch and iPod functionality included. When you start to looking a the BlackBerry and what’s made it successful […]
Voq Liquidation Sale
A few years ago the Voq was developed by Sierra Wireless and was rumored to be an alternative to the BlackBerry. I was involved with the Voq project fairly early on through Certicom who provided Sierra Wireless the movianVPN software. It was of the first embedded VPN deals that eventually lead to a change in […]
Microsoft GameCamp, so close, yet so far…
Microsoft hosted a GameCamp today on their XNA platform. The XNA platform promises some the ability to target multiple MS platforms and specifically Win32 and Xbox360. The details on the XNA platform are pretty complicated and quite disappointing for anyone looking to develop for the xbox360. The MS GameCamp didn’t get off to a good […]
MythTV InstallFest
GTALUG and the LinuxCaffe are putting on a MythTV install fest this weekend. If you’ve ever considered setting up a MythTV PVR it should be a good opportunity to get help from some linux experts. More details are available here: http://www.linuxcaffe.ca/node/731 I out of the city this weekend so I won’t be able to attend […]
DemoCampToronto9 Review
DemoCamp was back on in Toronto last night. It was again at No Regrets which is a great location to have a beer and watch the demos. As always it was pretty full and standing room only for alot of the demos. I think ConceptShare won the award for traveling the furthest, apparently it hasn’t […]