I was chatting with a friend Annie at my ultimate game last night and she showed me the above picture that she recently posted for Wordless Wednesday on her blog PhD in Parenting. Its such a great pic that I had to share it. The pic is of her son and he looks like a [...]
Writing Archive
10 products names
Here is a link to a great article that explains how 10 companies picked the names of some really influencial products including the iPod, Twitter and Firefox. Here is a short excerpt:
When cofounder Biz Stone saw the application that Jack Dorsey created in 2006 he was reminded of the way birds communicate: “Short bursts of [...]
Rubber Power
Here is a cool invention and video by Darcy Whyte. He has completely reinvented the rubber power model plane so that it is accessible for younger children as well as adults with less time. Here are some links if you are interested in finding out it is done…
http://www.Rubber-Power.com
http://www.rubber-power.com/How-to-fly-a-rubber-band-poweredl-airplane.htm
ChangeCamp 2009
Marquis Cote just sent me an email announcing a new Meetup for The digitalOttawa Meetup Group!
What: ChangeCamp Ottawa 2009
When: May 16, 2009 8:00 AM
Where: Click the link below to find out!
Meetup Description: ChangeCamp Ottawa is being organized by the Ottawa community to bring together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, policy makers, political players, change-makers and government [...]
Welcome Obama to Canada…
Here is an interesting site that I set up for a ThinkSM client. It’s called WelcomeObama.ca and its a place where Canadians can submit messages or videos to Barack Obama prior to his visit to Canada on February 19th. Everyone can vote on the messages and just before his visit the Rideau Institute will release [...]
Co-working / Dex Roadtrip – Ottawa
Last Wednesday night, Scott Annan and I brought the Co-working / dex Roadtrip to the Code Factory in Ottawa. It was a great stop because we got to have Andrew Milne with us – Andrew is the UI designer that made dex look so good. As always, the discussions were great and people were very [...]
Ottawa Roadtrip Stop…
Originally the Ottawa stop for the Co-working / Dex Roadtrip was going to be a quaint affair with a small group of invitees. As it turns out, wednesday is a bad night for alot of people so we have decided to open this up to anyone who wants to come. The event takes place at [...]
Co-working / Dex Roadtrip begins!!!
The next two weeks are going to be pretty fun. For the last six months or so I have been working with Scott Annan on MG’s new CRM app Dex. One of the things that we always talk about is how we can make connections with other startup communities in both Canada and the US. [...]
Social Media Book Club
Kelly Rusk and I have been talking about doing a Social Media Book Club for quite some time since we are both always reading the same books. So to start the new year off right, we have decided to start a Social Media Book Club in Ottawa.
The first Social Media Book Club Meetup will take [...]
Overlay.tv lands the Jonas Brothers
Overlay.tv continues its rampage on the video front. I just noticed this recent news release that states that the Jonas Brothers are now using Overlay.tv technology to engage their fans.
Jonas Brothers, the internationally acclaimed platinum recording artists that first climbed to the top of the charts in 2007, have found a new way to connect [...]
Free furniture for a needy startup
Peter Childs just let me know that he has a friend that is moving offices and is willing to give away some pretty good furniture to a local startup. If interested, please get in touch with Peter directly at: childs {dot} peter {at} gmail {dot} com
He also has pictures. Here is a list of what is [...]
Thank you video stars…
I just wanted to say thanks to all the people that came out to help us shoot the Mercury Grove video, this past saturday. In total we had about 20 people participate over a two hour period. As you can see from the image above, by the end we all wanted to kill Craig for [...]
Free Startup Ottawa Breakfast for Video Stars…
For the last while, Scott Annan and I have been wanting to set up a Startup Ottawa event that was just for hanging out with people in the Ottawa startup scene.
By coincidence we also need a bunch of people to participate in a video shoot that ThinkSM is doing for some Mercury Grove videos.
Our idea [...]
This is my new company…
One of the benefits of having a blog is that you can promote your own stuff. I don’t usually take advantage of this luxury but I am about to now. Last summer after I left Shopify, I immediately started working in social media marketing which is a field that I am pretty passionate about. Most [...]
Social Mention needs your vote…
About two weeks ago, I started getting all sorts of email from people asking if I had heard of socialmention. After a little research I discovered that socialmention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services. For example…
- It allows you [...]
One Planet Communities
Greg Searle (a good friend of mine) just launched his new Facebook page for One Planet Communities. One Planet Communities is an international program of BioRegional, the environmental organization behind the award-winning BedZED eco-village and the acclaimed sustainability strategy for the London 2012 Olympics. One Planet Communities was started a few years ago [...]
CodeFeed #8 – Code Factory Events
Upcoming Events
October 2nd, Lunch and Learn, Featured Entrepreneur; Nikhil Adnani, founder and ceo thinkRF: SIGN UP
October 8th, TON (the Ottawa Network) 3 x 10 Seed Funding Part I
October 9th, Lunch and Learn, Featured Entrepreneur; Fred Farsi, founder, president and ceo Pikaia Systems: SIGN UP
October 9th, Team Camp (see announcement below)
October 21st, CAPCHI, have an exciting [...]
Team Camp is born…
If you were at Democamp10 you probably heard Chris Schmitt mention Team Camp. In short, Team Camp is a series of events aimed at forming like minded individuals into teams for the purpose of turning ideas for software or web applications into successful businesses.
The first Team Camp meeting:
Date: Thursday, 9th October, 2008
Time: 6pm to [...]
Four questions for Rob Lane of Overlay.tv – (Updated)
UPDATE: I just came across an amazing use of Overlay.tv technology at Elle Magazine. As you watch the video click on the stuff you think is nice and you can find out more info about it. This is a really good idea.
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Here is a four question interview that we did recently with Rob Lane of [...]