Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
$1 wish waiting for you at Gifter.org
We just reached 600 wishes at the Gifter Wishing Well. You can grab a coin at the Gifter.org site and drop it in the wishing well. For each wish you make we have sponsors donating $1 to charity. Our sponsors have already donated $6,147 to a number of worthy charities.
We need your help in collecting [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Community, Gifter.org by austin
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Project Ojibwe is looking to hire a Python Wrangler
The startup that Alex Eberts and I are working on, Project Ojibwe is looking to hire a talented Python wrangler. Our preferred team member will have experience with Python web frameworks (preferably Django) and experience with database, web services and web application architecture.
I’ve always wondered why if all markets are conversations, that the job market [...]
19 Comments » - Posted in Grass Root Conversations, Humor, Montreal, Talent Search by austin
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
DemoCampMontreal1 is Next Week
DemoCampMontreal1 will be held next Tuesday, February 27th at the Society for Arts and Technology. The SAT has generously donated their incredible space for this and other Montreal Barcamp/Democamps.
I’m helping my friend, Montreal Barcamp organizer Fred Ngo with the fundraising for Barcamp and Democamps. I’ll be announcing the sponsors for the events shortly. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Montreal by austin
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
The Media is the Monkey - An Interview with Russell Samuels
As part of my continuing series of interviews showcasing the Canadian tech scene I asked my friend Russell Samuels, the founder of Ventis Media to share a bit about his story in building a succesfull software company as a stay at home dad
Russell worked with me at Zero-Knowledge Systems, and then again at [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Interview, Montreal by austin
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Giving as good as you get
Google recently released it’s RSS reader numbers and like most bloggers around the world I have a fairly large increase in my reader numbers. My RSS subscribers have jumped from about 80 regular RSS readers to 170.
Even though those readers must have been there for awhile, the increased readership is great encouragement to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Blogging, Community, Gifter.org by austin
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
I’m a Redneck and a Microsoftie hooks me up with a Blue Monster
Hugh MacLeod posted a link to my Valentine’s Story and must have caught on to my Calgary background when I get the Redneck mention in his great cartoon. I guess you can’t avoid your roots, even on the Internet. I get called loser often enough - it’s the Redneck one that I haven’t heard [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Grass Root Conversations by austin
Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Video killed the Internet Star
I have recently made an investment in a new startup in Montreal being created by two great entrepreneurs who I’ve become friends with. The project is in the Internet video space and one of the trends that it involves is the growing army of pro-am videographers.
I liken it to 1994-95 when my brother and [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Humor by austin
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Are you In Over Your Head? An Interview with Julien Smith
When I began to explore Canada’s social media scene in earnest last year, one of the first people I met was In Over Your Head podcaster Julien Smith. As many of my conversations are about using social media and online communities to improve the world we quickly connected and became friends. We [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Interview by austin
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Do Canadian VCs play games? Google Buys Adscape Media.
Google today announced that they have purchased formerly Ottawa-based video game advertising company Adscape Media. (You could call them Video Game Advertising 2.0 if the sidebar picture is Video Game Advertising 1.0)
See today’s coverage on the news,
Techcrunch - Google to buy Adscape for $23 million.
PaidContent - Google does by Adscape after all for $23 [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Get out your tinfoil hats
When we first started Zero-Knowledge Systems our strong stance on encryption and pro-privacy work attracted some interesting characters at times. Some of my ‘hall of fame letters’ include many people who wrote to us claiming to wear tinfoil hats to protect the privacy of their thoughts and thanking us for helping them protect the [...]
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