Archive for March, 2009

Spring is in the air, and that can mean just one thing in Canada – the Stanley Cup Playoffs. While Canucks fans are debating who’d they rather play in the first round, Vancouver-based online marketing firm October 17 Media has teamed up with Future Shop to create a flash-based game that will allow consumers… »

New Technology News Posted on Apr 1, 2009 in Games, Tech News. Sony has announced a firmware update to the next PS3. The update called v2.70 has new features such as Text Chat. This new feature will enable the user to communicate online… »

Are longtime Tweeps really getting fed up with an increasing number of fail whales caused by Twitter’s mainstream acceptance? CNN ’s John Sutter seems to have put his finger on a creeping annoyance for geeks: Some users say Twitter has outgrown its core audience and is irrelevant to the technophiles who made it popular in… »

Skype has arrived for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Updated: BUT NOT IN CANADA! Why?  According to Ian Andrew Bell , it’s not some vague patent licensing issue as a Skype PR person describes, but a signaiing and or call set-up issue that only a few people must understand. As the Globe and Mail… »

A friendly reminder that this Thursday night is Wired Woman’s Spring Fashion extravaganza.  It’s being held at Radical Entertainment HQ (369 Terminal Avenue) starting at 6pm.  Cost is $35 for non WW members or $30 for WW members.  As you know, Wired Woman is non-profit  organization that encourages women to get involved in the… »

MEDB Women in Technology (WIT) offers professional development opportunities for teachers, special events for students, ongoing online support for teachers and students, and standards-based curriculum development. …… »

If you’ve ever wanted to meet a self-made, behind-the-scenes e-commerce superstar here’s your chance. Watch this interview with my good friend,… »

I caught up with Chris Golda and Mike Montano , founders of BackType, at the Interactive Exchange conference in Toronto recently to hear about their journey as recent grads from Toronto to startup founders in Silicon Valley. Both Chris and Mike were until recently electrical engineering undergrad students at the University of Toronto. Chris… »

Matthew Miyaga is an Environmental Biologist during the day and the owner of a small clothing company called Finale Design .  But he is also one of the people behind a bunch of blogs called the Slops, in particular, Vancouver Slop .  The blogs run in Vancouver, New York and Calgary and the main… »

Should investors be gambling their investment dollars on fast-growing, but revenue-free startups? If the recent $2 million investment into Betaworks’ in-house project bit.ly is any indication, maybe.  Bit.ly is like some of Vancouver’s very own url-shorteners, like Invoke Media’s ow.ly (related to Hootsuite) and Tr.im , all of which do the same thing.  They… »