Mitch Brisebois, SensoryMetrics.com, Eyeball Currency, Monetizing the SoNet UX
- Latest Facebook valuation: $15b, users: 500M, eyeballs: $150(x2)
- Flickr: pro account charges money
- CarbonNYC: $5K to get in, popular & profitable
- Social networks craze: highly targeted social net sites are getting traction (e.g., a site for smelly sneakers, no kidding)
- Dogster: can organize dog walking & [...]
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Barcamp session: Eyeball Currency, Monetizing the SoNet UX
Barcamp session: Enterprise email 2.0
Vic Nishi, Orchestra CM, Enterprise email 2.0
- A very participative session: it’s pretty amazing how many very different point of views there
- When the people around the room talk about email, it’s became obvious that poople have pretty strong love and hate relationships with email
- Q: do you see email as a communication tool or [...]
Barcamp session: building online communities
Luc Levesque, TravelPod.com, building online communities
- An excellent talk for practical tips on building online communities
- “Comments are … cocaine” — Evan Williams
- Typos can add value to your business (e.g., show results from OOttawa, Otawwa, for Ottawa)
- Excite the passionate members: newsletters, blogs, forums
- Spams are a community killer (invest to take care of [...]
Live guest blogging at Barcamp…
If anyone is interested in doing some blogging tomorrow on Startup Ottawa let me know. I can set you up with an account so that you can live blog about whatever presentation you are attending…
The Code Factory has a founding partner
I missed this last week but Ian Graham at the Code Factory just got his first founding partner. Acorn Partners will be working with Ian on the Code Factory and from what I understand they will also be providing cash and services. According to Ian he will be announcing some other partners very soon.
International DemoCamp at Barcamp
Peter Childs just announced that the “surprise presentations” at Barcamp Ottawa IV will be an International DemoCamp in conjunction with the Leeds UK BarCamp. Three companies from each city will demo their software and answer questions from an audience in both cities. How cool is that? See the wiki for information or to sign-up and demo.
Sad News: Kakiloc is now closed
Martin Dufort just emailed me to let me know that he has decided to close down Kakiloc’s location based service. This is really too bad as Martin and Alain both are very active in the startup scene and both worked very hard to make their service a success. Unfortunately competition in the Social Networking space [...]
Barcamp Ottawa IV
Barcamp Ottawa IV is this weekend and it looks like it is going to be a huge success. Not only are there almost 100 people signed up on the wiki but the line up looks great as well. One of the more interesting things about the line up are the “Surprise Sessions” in Room 1 [...]
BarCamp Ottawa IV
Peter Childs just emailed me the details of BarCamp Ottawa 4. It is going to be taking place at bitHeads on November 17th between 9am and 5pm.
People can sign up here. The scheduled stream is Social Media but there is still lots of opportunity to add sessions. The site can accommodate only 120 people so sign up early if [...]