June 2007 - Posts
Rick makes a good point : "Cheap MSFT goods - The ISV Empower Program Don Dodge has a post up about Microsoft being a good friend to start ups. He quotes some love, etc. Love em, hate em, doesn't matter. Here's what does matter: Microsoft's ISV Empower
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My friends at Sonos (disclaimer: I LOVE MY SONOS) have partnered with Best Buy in the US to make their devices available to an even wider audience. This comes a few weeks after their Pandora announcement (and firmware update - which has dramatically improved
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We had a chance to tell everyone at EnergizeIT about matchit.ca - it received a strong round of applause, which I will take as a good thing! Technorati tags: EnergizeIT , MatchIT
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Lots of people are posting content from EnergizeIT. What a great day! A few blog reactions: Thank you for coming to EnergizeIT EnergizeIT in Toronto was Awesome! EnergizeIT was Energizing! The REAL Truth about EnergizeIT 2007! Microsoft Energize IT EnergizeIT
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We are all done. It was fun! Ok, I talk to much - David needs a tazer or something to shut me up..... but I love the topic ;-) Here are our slides: http://www.slideshare.net/mrelph/energize-keynote-what-is-community-slideshare Remember, check out Flickr
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David and I are done the slides for our session during the keynote. The teams are all out at the venue getting setup. Nearly 3000 people are registered (and there is still space!). EnergizeIT is going to rock. Are you going? Let me know. Technorati tags:
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Video: Barnaby Jeans on David Onley's Homepage Show on CP24 Technorati tags: EnergizeIT , EnergizeIT2007 , Microsoft , Canada
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Head over to the Windows Home Server blog to see the details of the public release candidate. There is also a great WHS blog from the UK called " We Got Served ". There you will find a cool list of add-ins . The public Home Server site is here . There
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Ok. This goes in the strange category. I mystery picture has been discovered on the Vista DVD in the hologram. Easter Egg? (no, I have no idea who they are). http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/who_are_these_three_guys.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B4898489
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Ok, he doesn't like the stickers (just kidding David) and Windows Mobile needs to grow on him, but David had some fun. He outlines it here . David and I are keynoting at EnergizeIT - we will be talking Community!!
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Check over at the Canadian UX Community Blog for some details on the Design / UX track at EnergizeIT. "Both Qixing and I will be presenting in the Designer breakout; we hope you can make it! If you can, please feel free to come up and introduce yourself
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From the Rodney on IT Pro Community Blog : "Just in time for Energize IT 07 our team has been outfitted with the very cool Nikon Coolpix S50c digital camera . It has some typical features for a point and shoot digital camera (3x optical zoom, 7.2 Megapixels,
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We had high hopes for MatchIT.ca when we launched a few weeks ago. There are now 600+ technical folks registered and 55 organizations. Amazing. Right now the matching process is taking place and I hope to hear about the great work that gets done over
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This weekend is EnergizeIT - our extra-special technical community event. It's the 2nd time we have run this event. The team takes a slightly different approach to Energize than some of our other activities and we hope the result is that this really is
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Rafe Needleman thinks that the current batch of Apple apps on Windows isn't as impressive as Apple makes it out to be. He also thinks it is a ploy to convert more Windows users (a point I agree with). He points out that Safari is not an application people
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The folks at Torontoist aren't big fans. I think it's about time the tower got some light - maybe not neon, but something is better than nothing.
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Robert Steiner over at the University Of Toronto talked to me at MESH and mentioned this cool new job they are looking to fill. Seems like a very unique opportunity. SOCIAL MEDIA OFFICER - JOB DESCRIPTION The University of Toronto is hiring its first-ever
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Thanks to PhotoJunkie for the photo. MESH was overall a great event. From all reports, people felt it was a valuable use of time, although the crowd was much different than last year. I moderated a session called "Building Communities - How & Why
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But, sorry Ottawa...........better luck next time. http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=210049&hubname=nhl
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