DemoCampToronto Schedule

The DemoCamp schedule for the fall has been posted to the Torcamp site. If you’re not familiar with DemoCamp is become a great venue to see new products and get some new ideas on whats happening in Toronto. Dates and locations are: DemoCampToronto9 on Monday September 25, 2006 at No Regets DemoCampToronto10 on Monday October […]

Yellowpages.ca Reboot

Yellowpages.ca has just finished a reboot of their web site. The new site is alot clean than the old one and has much more of a Google/search engine feel to it. The proximity search is still not what I would expect and is not as easy to use as I think it should be. I […]

University of Toronto – A course in bad ecommerce

As many of you know I’ve been taking courses in the University of Toronto’s Continuing Ed program. I’ve found a lot of the courses have helped a lot with my day job. This fall I’d like to take a Marketing course on Competitive Intelligence. Unfortunately the University of Toronto has “improved” its e-commerce process. Basically […]

VoIP’s dirty secret? No Pizza for you!

I’ve been using Vonage as my home phone the past year and generally found the quality of connections to be acceptable. There are times when I can’t use it very effectively while downloading and it seems to have hard time making reliable connections to northern ontario. What has really surprised me recently is the number […]

CBC + Open Source

Its recently been revealed how the CBC powers its websites using Open Source software. This software is essentially free to use and its continually improved by a variety of developers around world that contribute their improvements for free. Its great to see a pseudo government organization and especially a media company using the advantages of […]

MythTV Usability

I’ve been using MythTV for about 2 years now and at times its been a challenge to keep it running. One of the reason I keep coming back to it is that I find it to be the easiest PVR to use. Recently a usability study of MythTV was done by Interactive Digital Television Laboratory […]

DemoCampToronto7 Review

DemoCampToronto7 was last night a quite crowed No Regrets. Its a fairly small venue so space was a premium and the demos were a little harder to understand without the lights, sounds and magic that its Mars. The presentations broke down as follows: 1/ Portal Prophet Platform by Kristan Uccello from Domainer My initial expectation […]

MythTV Presentation

My presentation at the GTALUG was a relative success. I wasn’t able to get my laptop connected to the projector so I did the presentation oldschool with blackboards and just talking. There was around 30-40 people there and lots of lively discussion around MythTV. We ended the night with a couple of pints at the […]