Archive

190 posts since 2005

A collection from a kinder, gentler time in a galaxy far, far away. Some of these posts aged like fine wine, others like milk. Views expressed may no longer be my own.

2020

• Rural Canada Post needs work

General Jun 30

• Rural Internet and Xplornet FTW!

General Jun 26

2019

• Welding 101

Technology Jun 24

• Google Optimize – Landing Page Killer

General Jan 22

• Top 9 Chatbot best practices

General Jan 16

• 3D Printing

General Jan 15

2018

• Voice sales, not so simple for Alexa…

General Aug 7

• Toronto Burritos…

Entertainment Jan 4

2017

• Best Date of Birth Widget

Design Mar 6

• The Best E-mail Testing Tool

Technology Mar 3

2016

• Retail Video Games

Marketing Oct 1

2015

• Strapped iPhone Case

General Jun 12

2014

• iWatch about being a wallet, not a wearable

Technology Sep 7

2012

• Joining Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Featured Aug 18

• “Forget the Wi-Fi, 6 GB is enough for all your needs”

Marketing Jul 24

• BlackBerry… Its all about the Browser.

Technology May 29

• Fixing Draw Something…

Entertainment May 6

• How to Travel to the US, with your iPhone…

General May 3

• Move over Google and enter DuckDuckGo…

Featured May 2

• Roger’s amazing shrinking value plan…

Featured Apr 30

• The problem is Robocalls…

Featured Mar 15

2011

• The Great US Paywall

Featured Dec 9

• I love Canada Post

Featured Dec 8

• The problem with Dropbox Teams

Startups Nov 23

• New Site and Domain

Technology Nov 23

• Democamp Toronto 28

Event Feb 23

2010

• Good Product Management RIM’s Saviour?

Marketing Dec 12

• Skype Reliability?

Technology Dec 6

• The New New Facebook Profile

Marketing Dec 5

• New Facebook Promotion Rules

Marketing Dec 3

• TPMA Panel Tonight – Nov 30, 2010

Event Nov 30

• My Presentation at Facebook Garage

Event Oct 22

• The Legality of Groupon?

Featured Oct 15

• Facebook Developer Garage Toronto – Oct 21, 2010

Event Oct 15

• Campaigning with Social Media

Featured Oct 10

• Why is Point of Sale getting harder?

Technology Oct 9

• The Problem with Facebook Groups…

Marketing Oct 7

• iPad Day Two Thoughts, Apps…

Technology Apr 7

• iPad Day One…

Technology Apr 6

2009

• Four Square and being Social Mobile…

Social Media Dec 7

• Marketing with Facebook Search

Marketing Dec 3

• Facebook Page Performance Metrics

Marketing Dec 1

• Ebay and Black Friday

Marketing Nov 30

• New Ascentum.com Site

Work Nov 13

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

Social Media Nov 8

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

Social Media Nov 1

• Facebook Roadmap

Marketing Oct 29

• Facebook Changes with LiveFeed Addition

Marketing Oct 24

• The Power of Real-Time Search

Marketing Oct 22

• One Degree no more…

Marketing Oct 21

• Facebook Garage Montreal – Oct 26, 2009

Event Oct 20

• Happy Canada Day!

Event Jul 1

• DemoCampToronto19

Event Mar 4

• Top CNN Technology usage for Obama coverage

Marketing Jan 20

2008

• IP Law gone wrong…

Gov Oct 22

• Yellowpages.ca getting better…

Technology Oct 7

• Confused users? Just add stickies…

Design Sep 11

• More Visa Frustrations

Marketing Sep 11

• Facebook tries again with the Application List

Social Media Sep 11

• Facebook breaks Application list, again…

Marketing Sep 10

• Facebook fixes Application List

Social Media Sep 4

• Thoughts on Google’s Chrome

Technology Sep 4

• Thoughts on Internet Explorer 8

Technology Aug 29

• More brand Assassination, from CIBC this time

Marketing Aug 3

• Simple solutions to complex problems

Marketing Aug 3

• Dr Horrible not so horrible

Entertainment Jul 31

• DemoCampToronto18

Event Jul 16

• CBC Hockey Night in Canada, the biggest branding mistake ever?

Marketing Jun 10

• Distance costs.

Marketing May 28

• User Generated Recommendations, hard to get right…

Marketing May 8

• Refresh Analytics Launch

Work May 7

• Thinkpads, still the best…

Technology Apr 30

• MeshU Schedule

Event Apr 21

• Early funding, for early exits?

Marketing Apr 21

• Well.ca gets Funding

Startups Apr 17

• Can Social Network Monetize?

Marketing Apr 7

• Adobe openning the door for Silverlight?

Technology Apr 1

• No Refresh for Yellowpages.ca

Marketing Mar 31

• Metronauts Launches

Gov Mar 25

• Lots of attention on Canadian Startups

Marketing Mar 25

• The dark side of Cloud Computing…

Technology Mar 24

• Facebook working the Media

Marketing Mar 19

• IE 8 Virtual Machines

Technology Mar 17

• StartupCampWaterloo2

Event Feb 27

• Why Monopoly?

Marketing Feb 26

• DemoCampToronto17

Event Feb 26

• PodCamp Toronto

Event Feb 24

• Flash in TO v66

Event Jan 31

2007

• StartupCampToronto1 Review

Event Dec 7

• DemoCampToronto16 Review

Event Dec 5

• FacebookWeekend Beta Wrap-Up

Event Dec 4

• Facebook retreats on Beacons

Marketing Nov 30

• Flash in TO v65 Review

Event Nov 29

• Creepy Friends Invalidate Social Networks?

Social Media Nov 27

• Facebook messing with Secret Sauce

Social Media Nov 22

• CaseCamp Toronto 6 Review

Event Nov 21

• Facebook Weekend BETA Announcement

Event Nov 14

• Openness

Event Nov 12

• FacebookCampMontreal Review

Event Nov 8

• StartupCampToronto Announcement

Event Nov 2

• OpenSocial sounds great, can it deliver?

Event Nov 1

• New Facebook Usage Numbers

Social Media Oct 31

• DemoCampToronto15 Review

Event Oct 30

• SlashID Launches

Work Oct 16

• New Newsfeed Algorithm for Facebook?

Social Media Aug 5

• Facebook vs Myspace

Social Media Aug 1

• Pragmatic Marketing Networking Event

Event Jul 24

• Forward this Linkedin…

Social Media Jul 18

• InsideFacebook.com article on Travel applications

Social Media Jul 15

• Romanian NewWave Cinema

Entertainment Jul 14

• Play Review: DYAD @ Fringe 07

Entertainment Jul 8

• Movie Review: Sicko

Entertainment Jul 8

• Movie Review: Transformers

Entertainment Jul 8

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

Entertainment Jul 8

• MySportsnet.ca and the Implicit Web

Marketing Jun 21

• CaseCampToronto5 Roundup

Event Jun 14

• Building your brand in Facebook

Marketing Jun 5

• Mesh07 Wrap and Final Thoughts

Event Jun 2

• Mesh07 Day2 Sessions

Event Jun 2

• Mesh07 Day 2 KickOff with Craigslist

Event Jun 2

• Mesh07 Day 1 Thoughts

Event May 31

• Mesh07 Kicks Off

Event May 30

• Open Source Strategy in the Patent Cold War

Technology May 22

• Facebook and Classifieds

Social Media May 14

• The Facebook Opportunity

Marketing May 1

• IAB Canada drinking their own Kool-Aid?

Marketing Apr 30

• DemoCampToronto13 Review

Event Apr 25

• Really Hotdocs

Entertainment Apr 13

• Canada’s Mobile Internet Failure

Technology Apr 10

• Date set for DemoCampToronto13

Event Apr 8

• Geosign in the spotlight

Marketing Mar 9

• I’ve been Joost’d

Technology Mar 8

• Canadian SEM finally warming up

Marketing Mar 7

• Toronto Autshow 2007

Event Feb 18

• Say No to Paul Ferreria

Gov Feb 8

• Classmates, give it up

Technology Feb 8

• Movie Review : Children of Men

Entertainment Feb 6

• DemoCampToronto12 Review

Event Feb 6

• Final Thoughts on TransitCamp

Event Feb 5

• NewMindSpace Subway Parties

Entertainment Feb 4

• TransitCamp Starts

Event Feb 4

• TransitCamp – A Torcamp Event

Event Jan 29

• TTC Pricing Breakdown

Marketing Jan 25

• Don’t ignore the Echo

Marketing Jan 23

• PS2 Leads Xmas Sales

Technology Jan 16

• Iphone vs Blackberry, Looking at the Supporting Infrastructure

Technology Jan 15

2006

• Voq Liquidation Sale

Technology Dec 20

• Pragmatic Roadmapping

Marketing Dec 12

• Trader Corp is Hiring

Work Dec 4

• Handling High Demand Launches

Marketing Nov 23

• Microsoft GameCamp, so close, yet so far…

Event Nov 11

• Big Problems with Third-Party Measurement

Marketing Nov 10

• A case for diversified investing

Gov Nov 3

• MythTV InstallFest

Event Oct 30

• Is Aeroplan insane?

Marketing Oct 16

• Platform Partnership

Startups Sep 29

• CaseCamp Toronto 3

Event Sep 29

• DemoCampToronto9 Review

Event Sep 26

• Movie Review : The Last King of Scotland

Entertainment Sep 11

• DemoCampToronto Schedule

Event Sep 8

• Toronto International Film Festival

Entertainment Sep 6

• LiveSearch

Marketing Sep 6

• Mark Graham

Event Sep 5

• Yellowpages.ca Reboot

Design Sep 1

• University of Toronto – A course in bad ecommerce

Design Aug 26

• Freshnews.ca v2

Work Aug 25

• Lack of Focus

Marketing Aug 24

• The Highland Yard

Event Aug 4

• VoIP’s dirty secret? No Pizza for you!

Technology Aug 3

• DemoCampToronto8 Review

Event Jul 26

• Hard or Soft, how do you like to launch?

Marketing Jul 19

• CBC + Open Source

Technology Jul 18

• Canada as a Web Powerhouse

Startups Jul 13

• MythTV Usability

Design Jul 7

• DemoCampToronto7 Review

Event Jul 5

• CaseCamp

Event Jun 13

• Great Ride n Stride 2006

Event May 28

• TPMA Presentation

Event Apr 2

• Canada’s Web 2.0 Conference

Event Apr 2

• Linkedin

Social Media Mar 31

2005

• I am tracking you

Marketing Aug 16

• Hans Island – A Canadian Response

Marketing Aug 2

• Live Bookmarks

Marketing Jul 19

• MythTV Presentation

Technology Jul 15

• Recent Activities

Event Jul 4

• Amenglish

Entertainment Jun 4

• Only 6% of the World

Travel May 17

• Star Wars

Design May 16

• New Site

Design May 9

• New Job

Work Apr 27

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