Facebook revealed their roadmap yesterday and it includes a number of changes for developers. Inside Facebook has a create summer here. I think the biggest change is the consolidation of communications into the Facebook inbox. Facebook Invites and Notifications are going away and communication will be divided into Inbox communication and Email. It looks like […]
Facebook Changes with LiveFeed Addition
Facebook released some interface changes last night. They appear to be: New Group Page design with Tab Interface and strong wall presence. This makes groups now very similar to Facebook Pages. Addition of a LiveFeed option to the Homepage. This works similar to the Newsfeed but doesn’t allow the same type of content filtering and […]
The Power of Real-Time Search
For years now Google has dominated the search marketing field. Its Pagerank algorithm attempts to find content that is the most relevant to the keywords being search. In most cases this means placing a greater emphasis on older more established content and ignoring the newer content. This has worked well for most content types except […]
One Degree no more…
One Degree announced yesterday that they are stopping production on their site. I’ve been a long time reading and even contributed some articles a few years ago and it looks like they’re committing to keeping the site up as an archive for now. I’d really like to thank Kate and Rose for all the time […]
Facebook Garage Montreal – Oct 26, 2009
The agenda for Facebook Garage Montreal has been posted and I’ve been accepted present on ‘Public Involve with Social Media’. I will be great to talk about my work with Ascentum over the last few months. The preliminary agenda is: 5pm to 6:30pm: buffet, socializing 6:30pm to 6:45pm: opening remarks – Louise Clements, Head of […]
Top CNN Technology usage for Obama coverage
CNN really surprised me today with its use of technology around the Obama inauguration. There’s 3 main components that I think stand out: Facebook Connect integration, it was awesome watching the video online and getting comments/status updates from your friends or the general public in real-time. This absolutely made the experience for me and I […]
Confused users? Just add stickies…
Facebook is trying hard to get users to user and like its new profile re-design. I think one of the funniest new additions are little yellow stickies on all the new and non-obvious additions. Kinda of a “we know you’ll miss this if we don’t tell you” approach to interface design. I’m not sure how […]
More Visa Frustrations
A few weeks ago I wrote about my frustrations with the CIBC visa opt-out upgrade program. Since then CIBC and I have parted ways, my Aeroplan Visa card was the last CIBC service I retained from them since openning a bank account with them as a child. A few years ago I switched to Royal […]
Facebook breaks Application list, again…
It looks like Facebook is reacting to user feedback about how hard it is to find and navigate applications in the new profile design. In response last week they changed the application list so that the “browse all applications” actually connected you to all your applications. This week they’ve changed the application drop-down so that […]
More brand Assassination, from CIBC this time
Leigh Himel has a good post about how the opt-out campaign approach should never be used. We’ve both been the victims of CIBC’s wonderful new Infinite Visa upgrade program. Without talking to me CIBC has decided to upgrade me to this new VISA program while I was in Portugal at Alex & Iuliana’s wedding. This […]
Simple solutions to complex problems
I recently had to send a letter, for the first time in a long. When I was at the Post Office ( I don’t know where else to buy stamps ). I noticed that all Canada post stamps a valid regardless of their value. Instead of having to buy $0.01 stamps when the price goes […]
CBC Hockey Night in Canada, the biggest branding mistake ever?
CBC, or Canadian Broasting Corp, has just made what I think can only be called the worst branding mistake ever with regards to the Hockey Song. For 40 years the CBC hockey broadcasts have used the Hockey Song and this week they let it slip away to their competition. I can’t think of a bigger […]
Distance costs.
Sebastian, over at Praized, has a great post about the “New Inflation “ report by CIBC world markets. If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend you check it out. I’ll wait… ( besure to check out the “Will Soaring Transport Costs Reverse Globalization?” section ) Over the last few years there’s been alot […]
User Generated Recommendations, hard to get right…
Joey deVilla has a great post about his experience trying to get a recommendation for a moving company. It sounds simple enough, ask you’re blog readers to respond with recommendations for local services. In reality its hard to get reliable information, in Joey’s case the recommendations were tainted by an apparent fake recommendation and legal/intimidation […]
Early funding, for early exits?
I attended Rick Segal’s VC round table last week, which was also attended by Susan Dingwall Williams and Scott Pelton. It was a good forum to discuss the VC community and the funding process for startups. One area I was surprised with was the agreement from both Rick and Scott that they wanted to involved […]
