After the last DemoCampToronto the process to Demo was re-factored and the time for demos generally shortened to 5 mins. In many cases past DemoCamp slots were full months in advance and a limited number of demos could happen in one evening. With the shorter time slot more demos could take place and even if […]
Canada’s Mobile Internet Failure
Tom Purves has done a great comparison of the data rates in Canada compared with the rest of the world. The CRTC has a done a horrible job with mobile services and data service in particular. The mobile internet was intended to be the great equalizer since many people don’t have access to a computer […]
Date set for DemoCampToronto13
The date has been set for the next Toronto DemoCamp, its going to be April 24 at No Regrets. The process to demoing has been refactored and the Demo schedule is as follows: Invited: Mike Beltzner Mozilla (15 minutes) Invited: Betsy Weber TechSmith (15 minutes) Break (10 minutes) Demos – 5 minutes each (these should […]
I’ve been Joost’d
I got a Joost account a few weeks ago but didn’t really use it much until I connected it to my TV. I’ve been long time MythTV user and the idea of getting video content over the internet sounded great. Currently Joost only supports Windows and Mac platforms so I needed to install Joost on […]
Classmates, give it up
I was sucked by Classmates spam about a new feature claiming to show you all your former Classmates on a map. You can see the BC map from my High School ( Sir Allen MacNab in Hamilton ) here: I think most people have experienced Classmates.com. If you haven’t check out, you can register to […]
DemoCampToronto12 Review
DemoCamp was back on last night at No Regrets. Its been a busy week in Toronto with TransitCamp yesterday and GreenCamp tomorrow. Last night featured the following: Mozilla Contributions by David Humphrey David talked about his students involvement with the Mozilla open source project and some of the different components they have been able to […]
PS2 Leads Xmas Sales
Sales numbers are in from the Holidays and Sony’s Playstation 2 still dominated the season. The breakdown of console sales for Dec, 2006 were: Playstation2 with 1.2M sold Microsoft Xbox360 with 1.1M sold Nintendo Wii with 604K sold Playstation3 with 400K sold The PS2 xmas sales are on top of approximately 100M units already in […]
Iphone vs Blackberry, Looking at the Supporting Infrastructure
Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ve probably seen something about the new Apple iPhone and probably heard something about it being a BlackBerry killer. In isolation the iPhone looks a pretty cool phone with its multi-touch and iPod functionality included. When you start to looking a the BlackBerry and what’s made it successful […]
Voq Liquidation Sale
A few years ago the Voq was developed by Sierra Wireless and was rumored to be an alternative to the BlackBerry. I was involved with the Voq project fairly early on through Certicom who provided Sierra Wireless the movianVPN software. It was of the first embedded VPN deals that eventually lead to a change in […]
Microsoft GameCamp, so close, yet so far…
Microsoft hosted a GameCamp today on their XNA platform. The XNA platform promises some the ability to target multiple MS platforms and specifically Win32 and Xbox360. The details on the XNA platform are pretty complicated and quite disappointing for anyone looking to develop for the xbox360. The MS GameCamp didn’t get off to a good […]
MythTV InstallFest
GTALUG and the LinuxCaffe are putting on a MythTV install fest this weekend. If you’ve ever considered setting up a MythTV PVR it should be a good opportunity to get help from some linux experts. More details are available here: http://www.linuxcaffe.ca/node/731 I out of the city this weekend so I won’t be able to attend […]
DemoCampToronto9 Review
DemoCamp was back on in Toronto last night. It was again at No Regrets which is a great location to have a beer and watch the demos. As always it was pretty full and standing room only for alot of the demos. I think ConceptShare won the award for traveling the furthest, apparently it hasn’t […]
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 […]
