Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Microsoft impresses at TED 2007
Two different Microsoft employees just showcased some new research coming from Microsoft including Virtual Earth with rich 3D models with hi-res photo’s to help build richer textured models, Photosynth and their Seadragon projects.
This stuff is groundbreaking and visually stunning. They are showed a Flickr mash up that grabbed all pictures on Flickr for [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Conference, General by austin
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Our emotions and stories unify us - do you feel fine?
I just watched a great presentation by Jonathan Harris at TED 2007, where he spoke about how the power of stories to unify the human experience.
While many people look for differences to define our uniqueness (Difference in gender, religion, race, class, wealth etc.) his project We Feel Fine scans the blog world to show how [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Conference, General by austin
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
TED 2007 has endless love
There is so much to post about while attending the TED conference. I’m swamped catching up with friends and having the most interesting conversations. There is so much to post, I’m not going to try to cover it all right now, but will try a few bite size postings throughout the next couple [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Conference, Humor by austin
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Chasing Billions with Zero Knowledge - My 6 month old inaugural blog post
Sometimes the light’s all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it’s been.
Truckin, Grateful Dead
I wrote this post in October 2006 but delayed in posting it until I had time to get comfortable with blogging. Although I’ve edited it a bit in the last couple [...]
13 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Canada Tech Scene, Entrepreneurs, Personal by austin
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
StartupCamp Canada is a go
While in Toronto recently I took the opportunity to sit down with my StartupCamp Canada co-organziers and community instigators Rob Hyndman, David Crow and Stuart McDonald. StartupCamp Canada is now a go.
We are still finalizing the date, but it will be in the last half of June in Toronto. (The final date will be announced [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community, Conference, Entrepreneurs, Startup Resources by austin
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Travelling for the next 2 weeks
I’ll be on the road for the next two weeks. I’m in Toronto at the Canadian Venture Forum right now.
I then leave for Monterey for the annual TED conference, which is my favorite conference of the year. Look for a lot of postings come out of TED (some of which I hope to be [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Personal by austin
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Say YES to the 10th Anniversary YES Entrepreneur Conference this Saturday in Montreal
I’m on the program advisory board for the Youth Employment Services Entrepreneur Conference which is occuring tomorrow Saturday March 3rd at the Delta Hotel in Montreal (along with my friend Mitch who recruited me to help, which I was happy to do).
YES the Future is YoursNew TRENDS . New IDEAS . New CONTACTS
YES Montreal is now accepting [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Community, Entrepreneurs, Montreal, Startup Resources by austin
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Using Video to Recruit Candidates Online
So it seems we may be part of a trend. Roberto Rocha wrote an article in yesterday’s Montreal Gazette about companies using video’s to recruit that mentioned our video advertisement for a Python Wrangler.
He also has a follow-up about others jumping into the video job business on the Montreal Gazette’s new local technology blog. It is [...]
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