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Reminder: DemoCamp18 on the way. July 15th Toronto
DemoCamp Details:
When: Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 from 17:30 to 21:00
Where: Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto
Registration can be done here
Sponsor tickets and the first tranche of free tickets are sold out but there are still plenty of cheap supporter and community allstar tickets remaining (you know what to do). Get a ticket while you can, it’s […]
Back in town, almost recombobulated
Sorry for the lack of posts and general lack of comments around here, I was in a better place. Just now getting caught up on emails, posts, ideas and a lot of work to catch up on. If I haven’t responded to you, I should by the end of the day.
As a side note, it […]
Trouble at the video store
I don’t think Michele will be taking me to the video store again. Just too much trouble. All stemming from incident a few weeks back. I hadn’t been to one in years, but an evening of unlikely desperation found us at the local blockbuster-esque corner video store. What surreal and bewildering experience. I recommend not […]
“The internet is always great, until the marketers come in and ruin everything”
Sometime in November 2007, facebook hit a wall. We know that traffic to the site took a dip in dec/jan as students delved into exams and headed home for Christmas break. But why aren’t they coming back? Searches for facebook have flatlined (note that many users use the google box like an address box).
Could facebook […]
Who doesn’t appreciate a delicious sandwich?
My old friend and recent-torontonian Jody Sugrue (portfolio) has launched a new design blog Eating Sandwiches. You may now add it to your reader.
For an unusual project, she is also looking for people to contribute pictures taken at exactly 10:15 a.m. This is much harder than you think. I have thus far forgotten to […]
Thank you Air Canada (and Aeroplan)
It`s not so often you read a positive rant about anyone`s national airline on teh blogs. But, thank you Air Canada (and Aeroplan), for changing my ticket at the gate. I had a points ticket from Toronto to Munich to Geneva, and with very little notice, and no reason you had to, you found me […]
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
I’m really enjoying The New Sheltand Wet/Dry these days asAll I dont want the RIZR, they must 100 free ringtones chocolate without a little tinny screen. an excellent distraction. Reminds me of the heyday of boingboing in it’s prime.
Recommended.
Aside: There Will Be Blood. mini review
There’s actually not that much blood, in there will be blood. But it’s awfully menacing nonetheless. I came out with this feeling as to why people *really* want this to be a Great Movie, to win an Oscar if not all of them. To give the film meaning. If you’ve seen it, you […]
AMD reports tonight, how bad will it be?
Poor AMD, I’ve been following and trading in this company for nearly a decade. If there’s one thing that always (has) been true about this company it’s that they always come back - and then blow it all away again.
AMD is down a staggering %85 from their highs two years ago when the Athlon64 was […]
Technologies to look forward to in 2008
A truly portable subnotebook from apple.
SSD flash storage in laptops, for portables with lighter weight, longer battery and fewer fragile moving parts (see also #1)
9000 series blackberries (because the 8000 series were already really nice
3G iphones
A service pack for Vista (short of something involving and axe and a woodshed, SP1 will have to do for […]
Your Indie-Punk-Ass Christmas Mix is back up [edit/repost/fixed** etc.]
It is with some pride that I can tell you that my famous indie-punk-ass christmas mix is back up*. Just this time of year, you want that festive joy, but maybe you’re a little sick of the classic versions and need to shake up christmas a little. Each of these tunes are certified awesome. You […]
A Clever Disguise
We’re changing our appearance over here at thomaspurves.com. Those (most) of you on rss haven’t even noticed, but anyone browsing the old fashioned way will be noticing a lot of visual and layout changes. Please bear with and forgive intermittent ugliness other wierdness. Still a lot of work to do on different blocks of this […]
Give ‘em hell Al!
photo by Guido Van Vispen, awesome bag worn by Francesca. Nobel Peace Prize by Al Gore and the United Nations’ climate panel.
Flight
I love the French word for liftoff décollage – literally to unglue the aircraft from the tarmac.
As though this whole matter of gravity had just been an issue of so much children’s glue stuck to the bottoms of our shoes all this time.
To land the recollage.
Ladies and gentlemen, patiently return your tray tables and […]
Need a job?
Everyone seems to hiring these days. A few posting that have crossed my inbox this week:
# Online Banking/Retail Banking Senior Analyst & Consultant, Aite Group (They do good work), Boston or virtual
# Web/eMarketing Specialist and Webmaster at Infoway which is a Canadian Heath Records/Info sort of company thanks Jyotika
# Meanwhile Navantis is hiring a […]
And the crowd says Yaaar. How Hollywood is losing the War on New Media
On Monday, it started with a few scattered pranksters shouting Arrr at the opening screen of the film premiers at this year’s Toronto International Film festival. By week end the meme had caught on. I just caught the best part of it mid-yarrr, but I love this piece of film I shot, of the screen […]
iPhone would cost $300/mo in Canada while U.K.’s 3 launches 10£ mobile broadband
Thanks to Michael O’Connor Clarke for the tip:
The biggest game-changing element of the iPhone, however, is that Apple is reportedly forcing operators to offer generous voice and data plans along the lines of AT&T’s, so that the customer’s experience isn’t hobbled. AT&T’s basic monthly service plan offers 5,450 voice minutes and unlimited data for US$59.99. […]
FaceBookCamp is going to be massive
260 people signed up on the wiki already and still a week to go. Significant amount of media and corporate engagement as well. This will make an interesting “camp”. It’s no joke that Toronto is crazy for Facebook.
Are you signed up yet?
I’m on the list but it also falls on my vacation time at […]
Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
