Author Archives: Thomas Purves

Monday’s News: Google office, Merom hits the streets

Google web apps go for the office Google has (finally) announced that they are weighing in to a portion of the Enterprise2.0 space with, surprise, an office suite featuring gmail, gcalendar, google spreadsheets. The google spreadsheet and writely applications are … Continue reading

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Porter Airlines or How to throw a smashing launch party

porter airlinesHave gorgeous flight uniforms modeled after the clasic glamour of the jet age. Find a trendy venue and invite the gliterati of toronto. Good wine, a chance to socialize and wraped up in just time to get on with the rest of friday evenings engagements. As someone myself planning a launch party in a few short weeks, some excellent inspiration.

As an aside, as a downtown resident I am a huge proponent of the *expansion* of the island airport… Continue reading

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GM does corporate blogging, now corporate flickr. Why not go even further?

gm electric race carScoble tipped me off to this great story this morning about GM using flickr. GM has a blog I find out but not only have they embraced this simple way to reach out to their more enthusiastic fans, but they also said why not release all of our internal PR images and promotional event images on to a public flickr stream as well? In his blog post Diego Rodriguez of metacool has this to say about GM (great quote): Continue reading

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