If you’re planning on heading to Austin in early March to attend South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), here’s a few tips that might be helpful to you. I’ve been twice before and this year will be my third trip to Texas. Every year it’s gotten bigger than the last and I expect this year to…
There is a lot going on over the next little while around town and elsewhere. Here’s just a few of the events you should check out. Tonight (Sunday, January 20th for you slow feed readers) Watch Rebecca (aka Miss604) on CBC’s Test the Nation where she (and a few other locals) ‘represents’ on the Blogger’s…
My buddy Duane is cooking up a cool idea currently called BeerCamp which seems appropriate to me since we met over beers at the SuperHappyDevHouse last year. The idea is that a bunch of people camp out for the weekend with the goal of creating a company from scratch during that weekend. Head over to…
Since everyone is doing it, I thought I should do the same although I have a hard time putting them in some kind of order…so they aren’t! Here is my list of the random things from last year that stood out to me in no particular order: my iPhone – in case you haven’t noticed,…
Third Tuesday Vancouver is tonight! Here’s the scoop (from ThirdTuesdayVancouver.com): When: 6pm – 9:30pm Tuesday, October 16 2007 Where: SoHo in Yaletown – 1283 Hamilton St., Vancouver (Map) Speakers: Joe Thornley (propr.ca) and David Jones (www.prworks.ca). Topics include: The importance of social media to us as Canadians – extending our reach without needing to leave…
This Thursday, October 4th is the next DemoCamp event at Workspace in Gastown – a very cool place and the home of BarCamp as well as this Flickr story. As I mentioned a few months ago, DemoCamp is an event where people show up, pitch something they want to demo and the rest of the…
The details are now confirmed for the September edition of the the Vancouver Third Tuesday event taking place on Tuesday, September 25th at SoHo in Yaletown [map] at 6pm. Yeah we know it’s actually the fourth Tuesday of the month the schedule is built around speaker availability. The inaugural speaker for the Vancouver event will…
A few weeks ago, I attended the organizing meeting for Third Tuesday Vancouver organized by Joseph Thornley. I had heard about the Third Tuesday events in Toronto and Ottawa and thought it would be interesting to get involved in the local version myself instead of just being an attendee. I got to meet a bunch…
Back in March while I was at SXSW, I found out about Lucky Oliver which is a stock photography company that allows photographers to sell their wares via the site. I was also interested in them because the quality of the photos is excellent and my day job sometimes requires stock images and in the…
Finally have a chance to post about the Blogger Meetup that happened on Wednesday. This was my second meetup and it was a lot of fun. Many of the same people turned up at a new venue this month that was quieter and more conducive to having good discussions if not a little cozy. We…