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 […]
DemoCampToronto19
Democamp was back on last night at the Imperial Pub. It was back to its root with a small crowded venue with hard to hear and see demos. I think with a 2nd speaker near the back would probably fix all this and the location was certainly work-able. It was also a lot of the […]
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 […]
IP Law gone wrong…
Matthew Ingram has a great article about the US Government trying to get control over a trademark controlled by a bike gang. Matthew compares it to the Al Capone situation with regards to tax evation. I think its a great example of IP Law gone wrong. The US Government has put so much effort into […]
Yellowpages.ca getting better…
Today we got our annual call from the Yellow Pages Group about advertising in their directories. We’ve moved offices so we’re probably in the Toronto West book. The major difference between the call last year and this year was the online only options. Last year we didn’t really have an option not to purchase online […]
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 […]
Thoughts on Google’s Chrome
After trying the IE 8 Beta2 I thought it would be appropriote to talk about Chrome. My first thoughts after reading the Google Comic was that it was going to be really fast and very unstable with the V8 engine. My tests showed that its actually pretty stable ( about as stable as Safari or […]
Thoughts on Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 this week with a big push out to bloggers. As part of my day job at Refresh we spend alot of time developing Facebook Applications and one of biggest hurdles is Internet Explorer support. I think one of the biggest momentum shifters for Firefox has probably been Firebug. […]
DemoCampToronto18
Last night with the 18th DemoCamp in Toronto, I think I’ve been to about 11 since my first DemoCamp around #5. The venue was at the SuperMarket restaurant/bar on Augusta. The venue was way too small for the event, even though the SuperMarket does have awesome food. The Supermarket even ran out of beer glasses […]
Thinkpads, still the best…
Great Lenovo commercial based on the Macbook Air commercial. I still love my Thinkpad and I think X300 would be great laptop, except without Vista…
MeshU Schedule
The mesh guys have finalized the MeshU schedule with a great line-up for startups, and anyone building for the web. MeshU is a one-day seminar, separate from the Mesh Conference, that focuses on web startups. The day features 12 workshops and 3 streams ( design, development, management ). I think the series highlights for me […]
Adobe openning the door for Silverlight?
Adobe has announced some major security changes in Flash 9. Many of these changes break network enabled Flash applications. Most notable applications that use any of the following: You use sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the domain to which you are connecting You use addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders in any network API call when sending or […]
Metronauts Launches
The Metronauts.ca site has launched and is accepting registrations for the next TransitCamp. I attended first TransitCamp it and it was great event for discussion various transit related issues. I think this time around the TransitCamp is looking for a more diverse crowd and I think I would just be another internet geek, when they […]
The dark side of Cloud Computing…
Over the last few years I’ve been a strong advocate of moving most of my computing the cloud based services. I’ve been using Gmail for all my email, including my business email. I use Google Reader now for all my RSS feeds and often I’m using Google Docs to share files with colleagues. I’m also […]
IE 8 Virtual Machines
I’m a little late on this but one of the funniest announcements of out of MIX08 was the IE 8 Virtual Machines announcement. I’ve been running the IE8 Beta which was also launched at MIX08, mainly because I badly broke IE 7 trying to get a version of IE6 installed for testing. The new IE8 […]