What a game last night. For those of you who missed it, the Ottawa Senators completely dominated Tampa Bay by winning the game 8 4. Now I know they are a long way from the Stanley Cup but they sure looked like a Stanley Cup champions last night. Ray Emery is playing great [...]
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Barcamp Ottawa
Barcamp Ottawa was this past weekend and it was great. Lots of great presentations including the Iotums demo god winner. We also did our first public demo of Shopify which was lots of fun. Toronto was also really well represented by Jay Goldman, David Crow, John Philip Green, Bryce Johnson, Sutha Kamal, Chris Nolan and [...]
eHub interviews jaded Pixel
Emily Chang of eHub Interviews fame has just published and interview she did with us a little while ago. If youre not familiar with eHub Interviews, its a site that features interviews with the creators of some of the most interesting web based applications being developed today. eHub Interviews is a project that [...]
Get Sproutit's Mailroom!
The past couple of weeks have been super busy for us at Jaded Pixel. During this time, we have launched our closed beta to a few hundred people, we were profiled again on Techcrunch and we also sent out our first newsletter to few thousand people. The one thing that all of the [...]
Digg Controversy
Weird stuff was going on with Digg today. Im not sure how I feel about it either way but it makes for some interesting reading. Apparently some people are accusing Digg of pushing articles higher instead of letting that happen organically through the community. Mostly Im bringing this up to show how intense some [...]
Blogger Interview with Fred Wilson of A VC
Fred Wilsons A VC blog is the first blog that I had ever subscribed to. Its an interesting amalgamation of music, family, venture capital and technology and it really showcases Freds personality. Blogs like A VC are part of the reason I started blogging and I would encourage anyone to check A [...]
Police Complaints Box…
Here is an interesting little bit of street art that just showed up outside the jaded Pixel offices. Its a handmade police complaints box. I havent seen any other around so Im wondering why we got so lucky. In any case, I love street art, especially if it has some sort [...]
Social Networks for Corporations?
I love participating in social networks both online and in real life. However, I just read on Business Week that Visible Path has just raised $17 million to develop social networks for corporations. At first the concept seemed interesting but when you read the short description of what they want to do it seems [...]
Shopify on Techcrunch
Mike Arrington posted a nice overview of Shopify today on Techcrunch. If your interested please take a look. There is a huge discussion raging on pricing. Thanks again to Mike taking so much time to really give Shopify a really good look. You can read the article here.
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Shopify Is In Beta
Shopify went beta yesterday. You could feel the excitement around the office last night as everyone was finishing up their part just before Justin posted the beta badge on the Shopify homepage. This is a closed beta and there are probably about fifty or so stores up and running right now with more to [...]
Google Calendar Launches
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Microserfs Resurfaces
Douglas Coupeland is a great writer and I always come to interesting realization about myself when reading his books. Of everything he has written, Microserfs has always been my favorites. If fact, it is part of the reason why I got involved in tech companies. I just loved the whole startup atmosphere he [...]
Shopify Theme Contest
I have to say that I was impressed by how global the Shopify Theme Contest was. In all we had entries from the following countries: Canada, Slovenia, Norway, Australia, Czech Republic, UK, the Philippines, Sweden, United States and Austria. Later this week you’ll be able to check out all the winning designs on the [...]
Maybe Not Such A Bad Idea Afterall
This may be one of those situations where I was not completely right. If you take a look at my recent post about social networks and advertising you’ll see that I thought it was a bad idea. Although I still think it’s a bad idea, it may turn out to not be so [...]
Blogger Interview with Craig Fitzpatrick
Craig Fitzpatrick is the founder of DevShop.com and he has been running his blog Uncommon Sense for Software since September 2005. Craigs blog is a must read if you ever missed a deadline on a software development project and it offers some of the longest and most interesting blog posts anywhere. Here is a [...]
Help Fight Breast Cancer
A good friend of mine – Jen McDonald, is participating in a 60k walk for Breast Cancer on July 21-23, 2006. Leading up to the walk she is trying to raise $3000.
My aunt has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. I would like to support her and other’s who are living with this [...]
What Web 2.0 is Really About
Everyone seems to be putting their own spin on defining Web 2.0 (W20). The sad thing is that almost everyone is using social networks and Web 2.0 design styles to define it. In fact, the real revolution on the web, only has a little bit to do with either.
What makes W20 so important is [...]
Google Finally Acknowledges Me
So an interesting thing happened today. I finally got a google page rank. For some reason this took a few months but today when I went to check, my page rank turned up as a 6. At first I thought my lack of page rank had to do with the weird URL but I guess [...]
Apple's First Employees Tell Their Stories…
I hear Tobi listening to this alot and today he pointed me to a great edition of This Week In Tech where Leo talks with four original Apple employees, and one of its founders, on the 30th Anniversary of the company’s incorporation. If you’re interested in Apple history this is a must listen.
Truer Words Were Never Spoken
This comes via caboo.se. I laughed out loud when I read this because it rings so true…
corp: check out this job posting
corp: We are building web applications based on Ken Wilber’s AQAL theory, Don Beck’s Spiral Dynamics, and other prominent social change technologies. Our goal is to enable emergence in the individual and collective through [...]