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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 […]
Negative Space in Product Design - Value from things that things don’t do.
I figure the single sound that must bring the most collective happiness to people the world over is exactly the sound your alarm clock doesn’t make as soon as you hit the snooze button.
I’ve been trying to think up, ever since my alarm came back on this morning, some other examples of this principle in […]
The trouble with truely open-ended software
Is that it’s a bit like trying to sell blank canvases on the grounds that any canvas could be a Renoir.
Congrats to David Crow on a new Day Job
My friend David Crow has joined Microsoft. Oh my. Other gossip: he confessed that he negotiated with them to let him keep using a Mac (heh). Anyway this is cool news, and interesting as I was just beginning to think that Microsoft was turning a corner…
Now Dave, if you could just ask them to […]
Heading to Reboot!
I’m off to Reboot9 in Copenhagen. Very excited as this will be my first reboot. This means I’ll be dashing from Enterprise2.0Camp on the 29th to catch a flight straight to London then Copenhagen. I’ll have to miss Mesh this year , but ces’t la vie. I’ll see if we can connect Mesh+Reboot with […]
NextMEDIA coming in June
EnterpriseCamp has teamed up with NextMEDIA to cross-promote our events. nextMEDIA is happening June 8 - 10 in (gorgeous) Banff, AB. If I was out west in June, I’d definitely be at nextMEDIA.
nextMEDIA is where the world’s leading edge content creators, aggregators, and most influential solution-providers meet to develop key business relationships. Set in […]
Where are we? Mobile Geolocation and Social Presence
Someone at a party the other night was trying to explain what you could do with geolocation on your phone. The conventional wisdom is, it would be “great” because if you are standing on street corner your phone could tell you the nearest pizza restaurant. Or it blink at you with “offers” from the nearest […]
Thought Experiment: CommunityCamp
Rules of CommunityCamp:
Rule 1: You must actually have a vibrant community to present at CommunityCamp. Like, for real.
Rule 2: You are not allowed to present your own community at CommunityCamp
Rule 3: You must find an (unpaid/volunteer/enthusiastic) member of your community to present your Community/Application for you, explaining why -to them- your community is great/exciting/important, what […]
How to Save $150 or so a Year on Bank Fees
This one’s easy. Close your existing chequing account with it’s monthly fees and open a line of credit. Tell your bank to attach the line of credit to your debit card in the “chequing account” slot. Done.
A typical major bank (in this country) will charge you upwards fo $13/month for unlimited banking transactions (withdrawls, bill payments, debit payments, cheques etc.). However, the banks will typically waive these fees on line of credit accounts, to encourage borrowing one supposes.
And guess what, lines of credit have all the properties of your chequing accounts including cheque writing (for people who still do that), ABM withdrawals, debits etc. But here’s the kicker, lines of credit unlimited positive balances.
Preamble
I’ve decided to cover a little more on this blog about the world of the world of mystery that is retail banking and global electronic payments. It’s a subject, by accident of history, that I am steeped in. (Disclaimer, I’m not unbiassed. I still actively consult in this space so there some topics I’ll need […]
Upcoming shows and musical links
The National, last I caught them at Great American Music Hall, SF 2006.
# I do believe that this is the truth. Especially the bit about Wilco.
# M asked today if there are shows coming up locally soon, and indeed there are.
# MELIGROVE BAND 4-MAY-07 MOD CLUB (one of the best live shows I saw […]
Reminder: Democamp 13 Tonight
DemoCamp is back with an all new format tonight and packing in the quality content. DemoCamp is the premier event for connecting with the tech community in Toronto. More info, and don’t forget to sign up on the wiki. (Also don’t forget to give Dave and Jay a big thanks, 13 times).
# Invited: Mike Beltzner […]
It begins, canada’s newest Wireless Carrier: Quebecor Canada’s newest Carrier
(At least in Quebec). It’s about time, and it had to happen. Pierre Peladeau, CEO of Quebecor just announced his intention to enter the wireless market in Quebec. With fighting words describing the existing “players in the cellphone industry as a three-headed oligopoly with no interest in providing customers with innovative products […]
How Tag Clouds Suck and struggling for an intelligent design of ‘Aboutness’
Some time long ago, back when the last of the compact discs still roamed the earth, when Web 2.0 was first shimmying it’s glassy, bubbly, lime-green flippery toe out out of that primordial soup of long-shattered dotcom dreams, there was, at that time, The Tag Cloud And the Geeks saw the tag cloud. And the geeks said it was good.
And boy they were wrong about that. really wrong…
Reactions to my wireless data piece. 24 hrs in
I had no idea this story would strike such a nerve:
1300+ diggs
10,000 visitors to this blog in the first hour
1,300 flickr views, and 18 favourites
185 comments on Digg
60+ comments and trackbacks on this site
50+ links from other blogs according to technorati
I’m amazed and impressed by the quality and volume of commentary the post has generated.
Some […]
Tickets now on sale for Enterprise 2.0 Conference, May 29, Toronto
Final speaker list is still being firmed up but the basic event website is now live at http://enterprisecamp.org
Capacity is strictly limited and this event is going to sell out so get your tickets while you can. More details coming shortly on this site and the enterprisecamp.org site on how to sign up to propose […]
Things that don’t work in Vista 64bit edition
Any native Vista x64 applications, because basically they don’t exist (about every app I use has to run in 32bit compatibility mode)
Winamp
Java applets (java installs but most of the time just doesn’t work)
Cisco webconferences (requires java)
Azereus (needs Java to work)
Exact drivers for my recent model HP Laser Printer (but found some for a similarly numbered […]
Two Thirds of You are Reading this by RSS
Finally having gotten around to setting up feedburner I now have some idea how people are reading my site. Comparing the feedburner tracking with google analytics of average daily unique web visitors reveals the following:
The results surprised me. RSS readers outnumbering webvisitors by almost two thirds. How’s that for social proof? subscribe to my blog […]
Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
