February 2009
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Simple Solutions for Online Branding →
Videogg’s Troy Young writes about what’s next in display advertising. What a great post! You even get a bonus deck, agency-style.
I agree with most of what Troy says, I would add this:
We’re…
Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book →
Pitching Hacks is here. The PDF is $19 and you can download it immediately. 83 pages. Buy it here.
Samples
We’ve raised $100 million for startups like Epinions, invested another $20…
Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on... →
Simple Solutions for Online Branding →
Videogg’s Troy Young writes about what’s next in display advertising. What a great post! You even get a bonus deck, agency-style.
I agree with most of what Troy says, I would add this:
We’re…
TweetDeck or Twhirl…or Both? →
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Both
One of the more interesting “races” within the Twitter ecosystem system has been third-party software clients battling to supplant Twitter.com as the place where…
Encore quelques courriels dans mon stack ensuite c’est les vacances (bien méritées) qui commencent…
I should have known that tweeting about beer on a friday afternoon is a sure method for good return on UOI ;-)
Walking back to Praized HQ after three meetings back to back, on a Friday afternoon! Good thing there was beer to be had at two of them…
Walking to a meeting with @startupcfo -underground Montreal FTW!
iPlotz: wireframing, mockups and prototyping for... →
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Haven’t tested yet but @heri seems to like it…
iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software…
Radar > CRTC et les nouveaux médias /... →
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Parmi les différents liens que vous trouverez sur le sujet, voici celui qui m’a été suggéré par Sylvain Carle (de Praized Media). Il s’agit du blogue du Dr. Ira…
RT @Indicarecords: Pour la nuit Blanche, Vulgaires Machins au Métropolis http://tr.im/gQs3 ( (et Les Dales Hawerchuk)!
RT @robroc: Once again, Quebec is excluded from a contest that awards innovation. http://is.gd/l6ZE (Agreed, it’s dumb).
Just love this new metric, UOI = usefulness of interaction. And it’s the complete opposite of IOU, acronymically and semantically!
I just love turning on my email vacation responder!
Wagmedia: CRTC Hearings Day 5 →
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Notes en anglais sur la présentation de l’Alliance Numérique aux audiences du CRTC.
Alliance Numerique is a non-profit organization created in 2001 that represents…
Reçu un email non-spam de myspace (!) show gratuit des Dales Hawerchuck samedi soir au Metropolis! Oooh yeah! #nuitsblanches #montreal
La vie c’est un samoussa.
Notes (en anglais) sur la présentation de l’Alliance Numérique aux audiences du CRTC (vers la fin du billet) - http://is.gd/l6gI
Listening to The Beastles this morning: Hold it together now.
CRTC New Media Hearings – Day Five: CWTA, DiMA,... →
Day five of the CRTC’s New Media hearings featured some good exchanges with the CWTA over the profitability of new media over wireless along with evidence that the National Film Board “gets it” when…
Gmail Labs gadgets now support OpenSocial APIs →
A couple months back, the Gmail team added a few Labs experiments that let you add gadgets to Gmail’s left nav. One of these experiments allows you to add any gadget by URL (i.e. pasting in the URL…
Google will buy Twitter →
There, i said it. It is marked. I have been saying that for weeks on twitter and before the series C round happened with Benchmark and IVP i have had a private discussion with a very…
Soirée ciné! Journal d’un danseur nomade le film de @yannickgelinas Solo 30×30 du chorégraphe Paul-André Fortier http://snurl.com/cpoep (FB)
Yahoo! SearchMonkey, Facebook and DiSo →
So today I stumpled upon the news that Yahoo! SearchMonkey integrates Facebook profiles, by directly integrating some basic social networking features into the search result page. I of course…
LinkedIn: Intelligent Applications Platform:... →
Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book →
Pitching Hacks is here. The PDF is $19 and you can download it immediately. 83 pages. Buy it here.
Samples
We’ve raised $100 million for startups like Epinions, invested another $20…
Je pense que je vais faire une petite session videocamp à http://www.webvideo2009.tv/ - lineup pas mal corpo, je vais lousser ça un peu!
RT @praized: @mintbirdy is looking for the 10 best restaurants to try in New York for her next trip. Help her! http://przd.com/q/mf-TQ0xz
RT @hughmcguire: any economic-minded people wanna take a stab at commenting on this: http://tinyurl.com/ah7uk8
THINK / Musings» Blog Archive » Creative... →
“What comes next? I think context is the next hurdle. Social context and page based context.”
THINK / Musings» Blog Archive » Creative... →
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I like this notion of adjacent vs. disruptive
Christensen didn’t buy it. He said time and time again disruptive business confuse adjacent innovation for disruptive…
Signaux honnêtes: l’importance de la rencontre... →
Alex Pentland est professeur au MIT et directeur du Human Dynamics Lab au Media Lab du MIT. Il est l’auteur du livre Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World, paru en 2008. Ses études…
OpenCellID →
This project is an open source project, aiming to create a complete database of CellID worlwide, with their locations
Project will provides free access to tools, data to not only create this…
Great strategic thinking (as always) and many good comments on @johnbattelle recent post: Twitter = Youtube - http://is.gd/kQaN
RT @startupcfo: Software M & A Market Update - http://tinyurl.com/b7k7uh (real good market numbers in there)
Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan (UK) - http://is.gd/kHoh - Great inspiration for Canada and Québec #ukgovOSS
Google will buy Twitter →
There, i said it. It is marked. I have been saying that for weeks on twitter and before the series C round happened with Benchmark and IVP i have had a private discussion with a very…
webcom, le 13 mai : Des nouveautés, des gratuités... →
bien entendu, les communautés sur Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning et Twitter #webcom2009 ou #webcom09. De retour aussi le Webcamp gratuit, qui a connu un succès phénoménal en novembre dernier, mené de main…
A plan for digital creativity in Quebec →
Yves Williams, a web entrepreneur, who is now doing AgentSolo, has a lengthy article about the need for the technology community in Quebec to gather and get the provincial government to…
2011 will be so different from 2009 that this year will seem the distant past in just 24 months http://is.gd/kWVm (via @hjarche)
iPhone App Store Secrets →
Our portfolio company Pinch Media posted this presentation they made at the New York iPhone Developers Meetup. There’s some great data in here and every iPhone app developer should take a second…
Street Art, QR Codes and Google Maps →
The Voice of the Street The Voice of the Street have produced this cutting edge website that allows street artists to receive feedback from members of the public. Artists leave a QR…
Un plan de développement numérique pour le Québec:... →
Le CRTC a amorcé, la semaine dernière, ses audiences sur la question de la radiodiffusion dans les nouveaux médias. Il n’y aura pas de surprise à entendre chacun des intervenants prônés…
Harley Totally Busted →
Ross Rudesch Harley contributes an article titled “From Open Circuits to Open Distribution: Can Video Artists Adopt FLOSS Strategies as their own?” to FLOSS+ART , an indispensible…
Belle discussion avec @remolino et @cfd ce soir, comme toujours, à suivre le mois prochain à Québec!
Blind Spot: Chapter One →
Have I ever mentioned that I wrote a novel? I finished Blind Spot in 2005, sent it out, got a stack of rejections. It’s been sitting in various formats of a drawer for years now, and I figured it…
s’en va prendre un verre de vino avec @cfd
Planifie une rencontre de planification pour WordCamp Montréal, le 10, 11 ou 12 mars de 4 à 6, vous avez un intérêt, opinion sur la date?
GIinx is pretty good for something labeled pre-alpha!