Tweet Metronauts April 5th Event Update | Metronauts The 2008 Toronto TransitCamp is this Saturday, and community supporter tickets are still available for $15. Last year’s TransitCamp was a huge success, garnering participation from the TTC as well as spawning other TransitCamps and an HBR article. (tags: toronto travel)
TweetI’ve heard a lot of criticism of Earth Hour over the past few days, mainly that it was a token public effort by people who aren’t really committed to any permanent change. Whether that’s true or not can’t be determined from last night’s behaviour alone, although I have read that some local businesses were using [...]
TweetAll week, the local tech community has been buzzing around the news that Bell Canada is throttling P2P traffic — specifically the widely-used BitTorrent protocol — for not only their direct Sympatico subscribers, but also for anyone who buys their supposedly unlimited DSL from a Sympatico reseller, such as TekSavvy. For those of you new [...]
Tweet Twitter / DowningStreet 10 Downing Street (that’s the office of the British Prime Minister) now twitters, and also has Flickr and YouTube channels. Let’s hear it for government 2.0! (tags: web2.0 government)
TweetI’ve upgraded WordPress to version 2.5, and the Barthelme theme to version 4.5 (which is only compatible with WP2.5+). Let me know if you see any problems with the site. One problem that I had with upgrading: I use widgets in my sidebar, including three text widgets for my feed block, my Google ads, and [...]
TweetWordPress 2.5 has been released, and I’ll be upgrading today, plus upgrading to the latest version of the Barthelme theme that I use on this site. If you see any weirdness on the site, that’s likely the cause, and I’ll get things back to normal as soon as possible.
TweetTIBCO‘s holding a breakfast seminar at the Park Hyatt in Toronto on April 8th — Good to Great: Achieving Success with BPM/SOA — that focuses on setting up a center of excellence. It’s free, but you have to register at the link.
TweetA tough decision on webinars today: AIIM was running one on Enterprise 2.0 (which I hope will be available for replay), but ebizQ was having one at the same time discussing the State of the BPM Market, featuring Maureen Fleming of IDC and Carilu Dietrich of BEA. I worked with Carilu to author their recently [...]
TweetIt’s been a slow week for blogging due to a lot of billable client work, which takes precedence, and I’ve also missed several webinars that I wanted to attend. However, an article that I wrote for Intelligent Enterprise was picked up on TechWeb and published on the Yahoo! News Tech page (thanks to Bruce Williams [...]
Tweet BPM Intro מאת דפנה לוי The first BPM blog (that I’m aware of) in Hebrew, serving the Israeli audience. From Dafna Levy, who has previously translated some of my presentations to Hebrew. (tags: bpm) globeandmail.com: Patriot Act haunts Google service Canadian? Hosting your data on US servers? You might want to take a look [...]
Tweet TheStar.com | GTA | ‘Camps’ aim to get ideas flowing TransitCamp hits the big time: my friend Mark Kuznicki talks about the upcoming TransitCamp in today’s Toronto Star. (tags: toronto) Useful Google Translate Addresses Including how to use Google Translate as a proxy. (tags: google tools)
Tweet Michael Geist – CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent This is huge: Canada’s public broadcaster is testing the waters with allowing downloads of high-res, DRM-free video via p2p file-sharing. Hopefully gives ISPs the idea that traffic-shaping of torrents is not cool (tags: canada copyright tv) Social Aggregators Emerge To Manage Digital Lifestyles [Dion [...]
TweetFor the closing keynote, we’re back to the live video feed from the IDC conference in Boston to hear Tom Kelley of IDEO. He wrote The Art of Innovation, and is following it up with The Ten Faces of Innovation, which is also the title of his presentation today (alarmingly, scheduled for 1.25 hours at [...]
TweetI’m in the panel on social media featuring Jay Goldman of Radiant Core, Jeremy Wright of B5 Media and Tomi Poutanen, former head of Yahoo Social Search, moderated by Jesse Hirsh. Jeremy: social networks are broken. We have a huge amount of data that we can pivot around people who we know, but we should [...]
TweetThe afternoon began with two concurrent sessions — Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 — and the Enterprise 2.0 session didn’t seem too enterprise-y, so I’m in the Web 2.0 session, featuring Jeff Fedor, formerly of Covarity, Leila Boujnane of Idée and David Crow of Microsoft, moderated by Stuart MacDonald of TripHarbour. After the introductions, Stuart [...]
TweetAnother reaction about this morning’s sessions: Tom Purves says It’s Official, IDC Doesn’t Have a Clue. Also check Tweet Scan for the terms IDC, MaRS and et08 for the backchannel Twitter chat.
TweetI’m at Experience!Tech 2008 today at the MaRS Centre in Toronto — nice to be attending a conference in my hometown for a change. This morning’s sessions are being beamed to us live from the IDC Directions conference in Boston, so although we have the timeliness of seeing the speakers present, it’s not quite the [...]
Tweet Enterprise Initiatives: Why doesn’t anyone understand SOA? The value of SOA: “The business gets value when SOA is used as an enabler of BPM.” “The value for IT is in reuse and speed to market.” Right on. (tags: bpm soa) The Cathedral Church of St. James Religion 2.0: PDFs and MP3s of the sermons, [...]
TweetZoli Erdos and Seth Godin have it right: when it comes to getting hired, you don’t need a resume, you need a blog. A blog that you’ve been writing for a while contains a much more complete picture of you, and forms more than just an online portfolio, it broadcasts your personal brand. How appropriate [...]
Tweet State of Wireless in Canada Sucks (video) Video of the famous DemoCamp Ignite presentation by Tom Purves of wirelessnorth.ca, “Why Wireless in Canada Sucks”. See the accompanying slides at http://tinyurl.com/2xm9sz (tags: canada wireless torcamp)
