TweetMike Fox of Brightlights, a recruiter serving small and medium-sized software companies, is giving a talk on Web 2.0 and business; I started out unsure of why a recruiter is talking to us about Web 2.0, and ended up pretty much of the same mind. He started with some very basic concepts, like the original [...]
TweetI’m at the IT360 for a couple of hours this morning, mostly to hear Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise. It’s a sad commentary on the culture of Canadian IT conferences shows that this session is entitled "Meet Matthew Glotzbach of Google" in the conference guide, as if he doesn’t need to [...]
Tagged google, matthew glotzbachTweetThis morning, on arrival at the IT360 conference, I Twittered (via Blackberry) "at IT360 conference in Toronto. so far uninspired. no wifi." Shortly after that, one of my Twitter peeps replied "yecch, I’d be tempted to pull an IT180"
TweetKeith Parsonage, Director General of Industry Canada, gave a presentation this afternoon on the way ahead in Canada’s networked economy. A big part of this was stats and charts about mobile and internet usage, including the amazing figure that the world subscriber market for mobile phones is more than 3 billion people. Canada has one [...]
Tagged broadband, wirelessTweetI’m dropping in on a few sessions at the IT360 conference being held in Toronto this week — nice to be able to walk a conference for a change — and attended John Reid of CATA Alliance talking about the value of social networking for business. He’s a stand-in-the-audience sort of guy, and is standing [...]
Tagged facebookTweetAside from the really poorly scaled logo graphic at the top that looks all squished, does anyone see anything wrong with this website that pops up when I try to access the wifi at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre? That’s right, $395 for access for a single computer. No, there’s no missing period in [...]
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