Archive for March, 2009

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Using Twitter & Community to get the most of your SXSW, GDC, Web2Expo

With conference season upon us the Montreal technology community is preparing to descend on a number of very large industry events.
Our community has a number of speakers, attendees & company presentations occurring at:

SXSW Interactive in Austin (March 13-17)
Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 23-27)
Web 2.0 Expo (March 31-April 3)

Conferences give us a great chance [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in Canada Tech Scene, Community by austin

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Incredible use of digital effects shown at TED 2009 - Curious Case of Benjamin Button

In this video Ed Ulbrich from Digital Domain talks about the technology they developed to show Brad Pitt growing younger in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The team won the Oscar for best special effects.

A great example of how technology is allowing our storytellers the ability to create our own view [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in Conference by austin

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

My thoughts on Google Profiles

I just setup my public Google Profile - (Look here if you are interested in setting up your own Google Profile)

Suggestions for Google,

I’m sure this is being considered, but vanity URLs optimized for SEO would be great. Instead of http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/100761717775559459217 I’d like to see the profile url be customized like LinkedIn allows (e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/in/austinhill)
Consider auto-suggesting [...]

No Comments » - Posted in Tools by austin