If Steve Jobs voodoo hypnotizes me into buying a new macbook that runs on air AND a new Rogers iPhone, on the same day, I’m going to be pissed.

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Macworld is tomorrow. This is when this year’s new Apple stuff gets announced. And, as usual, the fanbois are completely a-flutter with techno-salacious hype and bluster. Not only is a mac ultraportable on rumour but also [could it be true?] a Rogers iPhone too.
And, if not, some third product, like the future of all human happyness distilled to some impossibly cute white and silver box, shipping now, only $499.

It just so happens unfortunately that I actually need a new portable, and, my trusty but rather ancient Nokia is in need of an upgrade (and, let’s be honest, it was in my hand last saturday but I haven’t seen it for a week).

However, if there’s one universal about macworld, it’s that for each Apple product that is any good, the pre-hype and over-frothing speculation is at LEAST twice as much, so maybe, in the end, my poor Visa come off only half so bad. What are the chances?

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Aiim Enterprise 2.0 Survey

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Dan writes:

Thomas – twitter led me here a few days ago, and occurred to me that you (and your readers) might lend a hand in our Enterprise 2.0 survey, freshly launched earlier today!

Nearly 100 responses so far, but we can always use more data. Survey closes Friday January 18th, 2008. 67 questions, roughly 30 minutes, it examines the state of understanding and adoption in technology, topics such as agile development, lean thinking and knowledge management, and more.

It’s a good survey, I’m as curious as they are to see the results

Link

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GameonFinance gets cooking

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Thomas Purves

Wow so since I last looked, there’s been an impressive lineup brewing for Toronto’s own GameOn Finance conference (Jan 17/18). It’s no secret that gaming is one of the media industry to be in these days. Latest list of presenters

    Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer – Gamelab
    Richard Iwaniuk, Director of Business Development – BioWare
    Vikas Gupta, CEO & President, TransGaming Technologies
    Margaret Wallace, Co-Founder and CEO, Rebel Monkey
    Randy Thompson, General Partner, Argon Venture Partners
    Scott Steinberg, Managing Partner, digitaltrends.com
    Bob Jacob, Founder & Partner, ISM
    Asi Burak, Co-Founder & CCO – ImpactGames
    Tim Gatland, Chief Executive, Fund4Games
    Robert Shoniker, Principal – Courage Capital
    Jonathan Adair, COO – Distil Interactive
    David Bazak, Sr Manager, Media and Entertainment, RBC
    Jamie Leece, President & CEO – Rainmaker Games
    Phil Giroux, VP Business Development – Magmic Games
    Wojtek Kawczynski, SVP & GM – Silverbirch Studios
    Nathon Gunn, CEO, Bitcasters
    Jason Della Rocca, Executive Director – IGDA

Moar info, signup and official website etc.: http://www.gameonfinance.com/
One of the conference’s good looking organizers tells me that remaining early bird tickets available until Jan 9th at the latest. Also there is a substantially discounted “startup” pass for… startups if that’s you.

UPDATE: If you’d like to get in to the conference for free, GameOn is recruiting a few volunteers to help out with the show. Volunteering for one 5 hr stint during the event will earn you a free ticket and a chance to interact directly with some of the organizers, speakers etc. Sounds like a good deal. Details on the website.

Also in startup Finance in January don’t forget: Founders & Funders Dinner Jan 21, tickets are $75

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