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 […]
StartupCampWaterloo2
Last night was StartupCampWaterloo and I made my first trip out to the Waterloo Acceleration Center. Having gone to a lot of events around Toronto the Waterloo Acceleration Center is awesome, with an open lobby area for presentations. I think there was about 80 people in attendance but it was still an intimate environment for […]
Why Monopoly?
The Hasbro/Monopoly team has decided to remove the leaderboard from their Monopoly board top city vote. Maybe they weren’t happy with the line-up of cities or all the interest the vote process was getting. In a process that was fairly open from the beginning I’m not sure hiding the results at the last minute is […]
DemoCampToronto17
DemoCampToronto17 was last night at the Board of Trade. It was a packed house again with tickets selling out a few weeks ago. About half the crowd was new to DemoCamp again. It’s a strange trend that so many new people are coming out. The Demo’s for the night were: AskItOnline.com by Kaitlyn McLachlan, Clear […]
Flash in TO v66
I went to Flash in TO again last night, which turned out to be about all things not flash. There was a good crowd of people there and free pizza for everyone. The event also featured a little bar which makes for a good night. The presentations for the evening were: Unity 3D by Cam […]