April 2008
Why We’re Suing Facebook For $25 Million In... →
When I started TechCrunch nearly three years ago it was meant to be little more than a hobby. I love startups, and writing about them was fun, not work. But since then this hobby has grown into…
Find Your Friends →
Flickr is more fun with friends, but it is a big busy place, and sometimes it can be hard to find the people you know. The new Find Your Friends feature can help with that. If you…
March 2008
Sweet, Google Gears for Google Docs: http://tinyurl.com/34s93g
#Quotably does a really good job of threading the conversations, even better when you log in to see your friend’s conversations
Offline access to Google Docs →
Posted by Janani Ravi, Software Engineer Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make Google Docs friendlier even to people on the…
Disable Windows' "Use the Web Service" Prompt on... →
Whenever Windows XP or Vista run across a file type the system doesn’t recognize (regardless of whether you do or not), the user is prompted with either selecting a program to open it or to…
Set up virtual #Chumby on my #n800, so Sweet! http://tinyurl.com/2p47xp
Update on Creative Labs’ PR Nightmare →
Creative Labs’ PR nightmare (you can find out more here) continues. Consumerist covers the story in their piece, Creative Sparks Customer Revolt When It Tries To Silence…
Circuit City does $12K worth of damage to a car... →
If you’re thinking of getting Circuit City to install your new GPS in your car, think again — this poor guy had $12,119 worth of damage done to his Civic by the Circuit City contractor (Honda’s…
Every picture tells a story. →
When I look at this picture I see either an increase or flat electricity usage from 8:00-9:00 pm in Ontario, coinciding with Earth Hour. There is certainly no appreciable drop in usage.
For some…
Delta's new in-flight safety video →
This is Delta Airlines new in flight safety video. Apparently it has become a huge hit and has caused Katherine Lee, the attendant featured in it, to have her 15mins of fame. It has a jazzy…
Today’s Honey: March 29, 2008 →
Love and technology.
Not a single blog post about #barcampwaterloo yesterday. What’s going on?
How To Get On Someone's Blogroll [mitchjoel] →
How many requests a day do you get from other Bloggers requesting you to put their Blog on your Blogroll? I get it a lot. And, I’m fascinated by them. First off, what is a Blogroll? (for those…
Avery already knows linq
Just built an #AideRss library for .net, took me about 15 mins, should be good!
Had a great time at #BarCampWaterloo, gotta leave early. See everyone next time!
definitely need to demo linq. Would impress a lot of people at #barcampwaterloo
Getting really annoyed with the limits on #Twitter #api calls. I keep on being paused in #Twhirl
Looks like the 2bits guy doesn’t like CastRoller. I’ve used Drupal a lot, and love it. I wouldn’t think to build #CastRoller using Drupal
looks like the “No Powerpoint” rule is being relaxed at #barcampwaterloo
I’d like to point out the Express versions of Visual Studio, they are free
Just installed the #hashtags greasemonkey script. Very nice http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24208
Need to introduce Avery to #linq
Rogers: Now with More Bullshit (and Baseball) →
On Monday I got mail from Rogers that made me curse, and on Friday I got mail from Rogers that made me (for a microsecond) think they’re not so bad after all. Only a monopolistic…
Filter a specific site from any RSS feed: http://pipes.yahoo.com/spaetzel/filtersite.
Sweet, just noticed the Post tab on #SocialThing. Going to do some voting as well
I Refuse To Admit I See Any Parallel Paths... →
… to this and my life. Though there may be a few segments here and there. Ahem.
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Health Unit Wants Legal Drinking Age Raised →
Pushing for Return to 21
Scoble’s Dead Wrong About Twitter →
Robert Scoble wrote a post a few days ago saying that the secret to Twitter is following a lot of people:
I’ve gone through stages with Twitter. At some point I thought it was important to get…
Social Networking Features are Toilets... →
In the future, social networking features will be like toilets.
Charlene Li is quoted in The Economist as saying:
Future social networks, she thinks, “will be like air. They will be…
Hulu's new school of advertising: Choice →
When Hulu launched a couple of weeks ago, one of their big promises was to give users choice about how they want their advertising. While this was not available immediately on launch,…
Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop. Picnik... →
As I alluded to in an earlier post, online photo-editing applications keep getting better as the competition heats up between startups like Picnik and FotoFlexer. Today, a very large…
Save Teksavvy - Freeourbandwidth.com... →
I first heard about a third party Internet Service Provider called Teksavvy from my friend Phil, a former collague at Citytv. He swears by the ISP, an alternative to Bell and Rogers, which…
Facebook quietly launches "People You May Know" →
A comparison of Facebook (Left) and LinkedIn’s (Right) features
Facebook is launching a pretty cool new feature. It’s called “People You May Know” and it shows exactly what you would think…
Block-with-Timeout for Twitter →
I need a new command in Twitter — a temporary unfollow, or viewed another way, a block-with-timeout. Same idea.
I need it when someone is at a conference I don’t care about, live-blogging…
Drink Beer →
Another Thursday. [Technorati tags: Cartoons, Chickens, Thursday, Beer, Work, Dedication]
Twitter Abstinence Syndroms →
Just added a lot more #waterloo twitterers. Why didn’t I think of “site:twitter.com waterloo ontario” thanks @billdeys for the tip
London Indie Media Fair →
This Saturday is the 3rd annual London Indie Media Fair from 1 to 5 pm. The event is taking place at the Central library in downtown London at 251 Dundas Street.
There is both an exhibit hall in…
Providing a great Silverlight deployment... →
If you are doing Silverlight development, you are no doubt slapping in the <object> tag or using the <asp:silverlight> control (if in ASP.NET) to host your Silverlight content/application. This…
Bell Canada caught throttling ISPs' net... →
Bell Canada, the national Canadian telcom, has been caught filtering P2P connections initiated by customers of its reseller ISPs — that means that if you start a funky little ISP in Toronto and buy…
Watching the bruins leafs game. I can see the acc from here, very odd
OpenSocial continues to grow: Welcome, Yahoo! →
Posted by Dan Peterson, Product Manager Last November, OpenSocial was created to help build infrastructure for the social web. OpenSocial provides a common mechanism for developers to easily…
Guelph VC Roundtable with Rick Segal →
Rick Segal from JLA Ventures is coming to Guelph for an intimate discussion on VC’s.
More information on the talks is available here:
Here’s the link to register:
Guelph VC…
At Visual Studio traning in toronto
At the biermarkt enjoying a pint of afflingen
Full Feeds are Better →
Jonathan Bailey has written a great article on why full RSS feeds are better than partial feeds, and I totally agree with him. I have removed all my partial feeds, and continue to do so as I don’t…
Startup camp for entrepreneurs [JasonCalacanis] →
Perhaps my favorite thing to do outside of building companies is help other folks build companies. I was a major outsider in this business and had to fight my way inside over a decade. It…
Added socialthing.com/iphone to my #netvibes. This looks great!