May 2007 - Posts
Mia at High Road Communications (note: our PR firm) keynoted the Tech Week kickoff. They asked me to be a part of a video about Toronto. It also featured super-investor Ken Nickerson (my old boss from MSFT days of old) and Jay Goldman (Toronto web guru,
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Nearly 200 people and 25 organizations have registered for MATCHIT in 24 hours. I discussed this new volunteering initiative in a previous post . This is an amazing result in such a short period of time!!! Technorati tags: MatchIT , Canada , Volunteering
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The transcript is here . Videos are here. People forget how much work the two companies have done together over the years and the interviews covers that quite well.
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Day 1 of this year's MESH conference is in the books. A good day all things considered. Lots of pics , complements of Photojunkie . David , Barnaby and I all made the flickr stream. I've already mentioned the keynote with Michael Arrington, so I won't
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Worth the watch (and good fun) Technorati tags: MESH07 , Canada , Events , Toronto
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Arnold was in Toronto today on a trade mission. He ended up at the MARS building and Barnaby got some great shots. Technorati tags: MESH07 , Toronto
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Michael Arrington spoke during the morning session on Day 1 of MESH. It was his usual dry wit and egocentric commentary. Some of the crowd definitely didn't agree with his views on some of the ethical issues around data accuracy for bloggers (i.e. newspapers
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It's MESH time. I am down at the event for the next 2 days, hanging with the cool kids of the web in Canada. The agenda looks awesome. (Full disclosure. We are a major sponsor. I am speaking) The event is at the MARS building in downtown Toronto - great
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On behalf of the Developer, IT Pro and Community Affairs Teams here at Microsoft Canada I am pleased to announce the launch of MatchIT . This is a new Canadian online initiative designed to help bring together charities and non-profit organizations who
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Just in time for the Playoffs . Check out the new images from Live .
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John has been hanging out in Halifax and had a few things to say about being credible on the web. Businesses and organizations that hope to survive on the Internet need to do everything possible to keep their reputations pristine, says Microsoft Canada’s
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As David points out, it is a very busy week in Toronto next week. Hosted by ICT Toronto, it's being billed as: " Toronto Technology Week is a week-long showcase and celebration of this sector’s success and innovation, and as such, techweek.to will be
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A little bit of press from the Summit a few weeks back. Quoted from: Event Wrap Up: Vancouver International Game Summit, Gamasutra, Beth Dillon, http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070516/dillon_01.shtml "..Mark Relph, Vice President of Microsoft Canada’s
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Microsoft has announced that we are jumping on the Facebook Platform train big time. Support in Popfly and Visual Studio Express . Check out coverage here , here and here . Technorati tags: Popfly , Microsoft , Facebook , Mashups , Developers
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Head on over to the Canadian Developer Connection blog and read all about our new Gadget Contest called Gadget vs. Gadget . Got a cool idea for a Vista powered gadget that leverages some of the Live services? You could win some great prizes for your hard
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One thing I cannot stand is needlessly printing out paper copies of emails, online purchase receipts and other confirmations, web pages with interesting articles, recipes, directions - basically anything that you want to keep "just in case" for later.
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Congrats to imason and TorStar for making it to the defacto "you are cool" news site TechCrunch . If you haven't gone to check it out - head over to OurFaves . Our friends at imason have done some amazing work on our platform lately, enabling sites like
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On Microsoft.ca we just launched a set of stories about an amazing set of people and the amazing work they are doing in the community. Truly some incredible people. Want to be inspired? Read their stories: Maureen Jones - Keeping sick kids connected to
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Thanks to Hugh for the inspiration. I think in many ways this is the core of our mission as an evangelism team. Our goal is to help Canada's Technical Communities achieve their goals and unlock their innovation. We work to find heros and tell their stories.
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ok.... this is a cool new Live service for collaboration / screen sharing. Works well - falls somewhere between Meeting Space and LiveMeeting. It's ad supported (at least in this beta) and integrates well with Messenger. Works well over long distances
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From the Canadian Developer Blog : Thank you to everyone who entered our MSDN Code Awards program! We went through the difficult process of picking five nominees for the individual and team categories - we received a lot of really great entries. What
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The word is out. David Crow is joining our team here at Microsoft Canada. David is well known in Toronto (and elsewhere!) for his UX expertise and his stewardship of the UX community in Toronto. We are very glad lucky happy to have him joining us. He
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The folks at our Online Services Group have launched the new version of Windows Live Hotmail . Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, launched yesterday in Canada today, May 7 th , as part of a global release in 36 languages. The most significant
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Canadian Business and the Great Place To Work Institute published their 50 Best Places To Work In Canada list. Microsoft Canada ranked 19th. Not bad all things considered! Only 1 software company ahead of us - Intuit Canada. We do have an amazing group
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CONTACT is an amazing event. Lots of venues showing some terrific photography. As an aspiring photographer, this is my kind of art festival. It's one of the best events of the summer season in Toronto. Check it out .
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Jean-Luc has all the news on the Canadian Developer Blog . EnergizeIT 2007 is coming on June 16th and it's shaping up to be a very exciting free Summer event! It's going to happen on a Saturday in downtown Toronto and it's a perfect opportunity for Developers
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A timely post from Rick about airport travel, especially given the amount I am flying this month. "First, would you pay for a simple, dedicated security line? Not the line cut to get into the security scrum rather the whole metal detector, shoes off,
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Ok. This is just funny. http://www.starwars.com/community/news/media/chickentrailer.html
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After a quick Westjet flight from Vegas, I am settled into my Vancouver hotel to get ready for the game summit . The title of my talk is "Communities, Creation & Master Chief". I will focus on XNA and how we are helping drive the next generation of
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Day 2 was a busy day. 2 press events - including one that featured an application that the Hospital For Sick Kids in Toronto build in WPF as a next-generation kiosk and potential web presence. The application is focused on helping to increase the connection
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MIX076: The remix from day one by ZDNet 's Dan Farber -- In the aftermath of MIX07 day one, with the announcements around Silverlight (see yesterday's ZDNet coverage from Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart and myself), the blogosphere is weighing in with more
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The day just ended. We had a great turnout for the Canadian MIX get-together - almost 60 people turned up to "mix and mingle". Lots of really great feedback on the day today. The event has a really good feel to it - lots of energy, lots of conversation
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