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A few months ago I wrote about my friend Nick’s company and project called GiftTRAP. It is a board game with many twists. It contains over 600 photos collected from around the world, many of them from Flickr photographers. It is being used to raise money for charity for a non-profit entity called Right to [...]
Thanks to the nice people at ChangeThis.com, The Web 2.0 Manifesto is now here and can be downloaded from this page or if you want you can get the PDF directly by clicking this link. Please email me with comments! Stay tuned for a series of blog-posts that will follow up in more depth.
I would like to offer up a business idea to an enterprising young engineering student. Develop something that operates a bit like a speeding ticket camera but that is for sound level instead. Build it so that it can sit in intersections and detect noise levels of Harley Davidsons and other bikes with modified exhausts [...]
Jupiter Research reported in June 2006 that 34% of all large companies have deployed blogs and a further 35% will deploy them by the end of 2006, totalling 70% of large companies. I find those numbers shockingly out of touch with my experience and reading. It would be interesting to dive into this report in [...]
I am happy to see that Vancouver has come alive in a competitive frenzy to enjoy soccer. But thankfully it’s over. I have had to listen to honking horns of Italian fans for almost 12 hours now today as they drive up and down Denman Street hanging out of their cars and whooping and screaming [...]
The gist of the first half of the day was “Small is Good”. Small companies, small teams, small successes, small communities. It felt a little like a revival town hall meeting with people saying things like, “I’m John and I have a small company that allows me to stay home with my kids and I’m [...]
For reasons related to work, I spent yesterday NOT attending Gnomedex but I did manage to make the dinner and get together afterwards. There was a large Vancouver contingent there. All of the usual suspects – Boris Mann, Darren Barefoot and his lovely wife Julia, Andre Charland from e-business Applications, and the entire Qumana crew [...]
I think I have found the magic number. Every fifth article from Mark Morford is so brilliant, insightful, and articulate that I need to post most, if not all, of it here for my readers. Today is the day for another. In one fell swoop, Mark has managed to hit on a whole bunch of [...]
My friend Boris Mann had some great things to say about Vancouver being an excellent place to join or start a company here in this posting. However, I would add “capital efficiency”, great education system, and an awesome talent pool to to the list of reasons that Vancouver is a great place to build a [...]
(If you are looking for the 2007 event information, please click HERE.) I am very excited about our launch of the 30 Days of Sustainability. For the month of March, Vancouver will host a cornucopia of events and activities, all focused around bringing sustainability to our lives and our city. One key component of the [...]
Have you ever received a gift you hated? And then you either threw it away, hid it, or regifted it? A good friend of mine is launching a new boardgame called GiftTRAP with which he hopes to raise $1M for Right To Play – an athlete driven international humanitarian organization that uses sport and play [...]
(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) I’m working on a lot of projects lately that have caused me to ask this question and to try to get really clear on what each tool does and does not do well so that I can use the [...]
The Vancouver Enterprise Forum event on Web 2.0 was an evening of firsts, at least if I judged it by the number of people signing up on the spot for the event who were not regular VEF attendees, the number of people who stayed after the presentation to talk to the presenters at the front [...]
How many times a week does this happen? You decide to meet a couple of business colleagues for lunch and 20 emails later, you have finally decided on a place and time that works for all of your schedules and then one of you can’t make it, starting a whole new thread of messages to [...]
Boris posted a note about Brent Holliday’s recent Web Two Point Oh anti-hype column. Brent, I sensed just a little bit of defensiveness about your 1.0 state. Let any of us know if you want a hand moving your column over to 2.0 standards, we’ll be happy to help. Really. More accurately, let me volunteer [...]
Some friends and I decided that we want to write a Web 2.0 manifesto over at ChangeThis. We submitted our proposal to the ChangeThis team and they accepted! So now we need you to go over and vote for us on this page! Here is the summary of the proposal: There is a change occurring [...]
If you have not already done so, you might want to read Part 1 of this primer. So you are convinced that you want to “join the revolution” and now you’re wondering what to do first. Here are the first 8 steps that you will probably want to take: 1. IDENTIFY YOURSELF: Here are the [...]
Okay, here goes my attempt at creating a totally incomplete, biased, and opinionated summary of why you should care about Web 2.0 as a non-techie geek who can barely use their computer to begin with: Why do it at all? · Web 2.0 is about connecting people: it won’t change the world, it [...]
Boris is at it again. (Kate, do you ever see him anymore??) He is proposing that we build a meat-space collaboration facility for budding entrepreneurs to gather in to swap vcards and ideas while admiring the skateboarder decals applied in to their respective laptops. The official vision is: a physical, 24/7 space where Vancouver’s entrepreneur [...]
It is only when you take into account the sum total of a person’s associations, actions, talk, relationships, you get a more complete picture of them in the real world than if you just listen to their words. The corollary in the web 2.0 world (or web 1.0 world for that matter) is that the [...]
Back in 2003, I attended a pivotal event at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. Normally, these events generally follow a predictable pattern. People fill in the room, buy a drink and wander aimlessly. The venture capitalists avoid the nervous entrepreneurs with the bad pitches and the keen students stand nervously in the corner, not sure who [...]
Report to the home planet: Solar date: 4034583.9.20 The humans on this planet are very fond of their sports. One sport in particular which involves running around a field moving a round object from player to player seems to be popular across the many nations. It is so popular that the other day, despite the [...]
This article from the Wall Street Journal discusses the rapid increase in traffic that Wikipedia
is experiencing. I’m not at …
(This is a very early article and my views on Web 2.0 have expanded greatly beyond where they were at the time I originally wrote this. For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category.) Updates are in red: I have spent a lot of time lately talking [...]
Boris Mann posted a great summary of a fine evening that he and I spent chatting with an MBA class team who call themselves “Team Flow.” Lots of interesting discussion, and great questions from a very keen group of people. Thanks Lorraine and team for the wine and food! I would have posted this sooner, [...]
I submitted my Technology Buyer’s Manifesto to Seth Godin’s ChangeThis web site. They have now posted my proposal and it needs lots of votes. If it gets a lot of votes, then they will ask me to publish as one of their manifestos! PLEASE help by posting this information to your various email distribution lists, [...]
Many of you know that one of my favourite columnists is Mark Morford, who writes for the San Francisco Gate news. This is this weeks rant on Canada’s policies versus those of his own government. It’s a fantastic read and nice to see that at least one American is aware of what is going on [...]
Perhaps all of us Vancouver blogger types need to join our Southern friends at the Blog Business Summit in Seattle scheduled for January 24-25, 2005. Could be an interesting event. QUOTE We’re pleased to announce the Blog Business Summit has launched. The summit will be the gathering place for hundreds of entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, and [...]
First came the Cluetrain Manifesto (the end of business as usual). And then the Hughtrain (the end of marketing as we knew it.) Then the Social Customer Manifesto (social software + angry customers = angry but social customers who talk to each other and hate your company together.) So I figure it’s time to bring [...]
Christopher Carfi from Cerado Inc., writing for the Always On Network posted an article titled The Social Customer Manifesto, which is good and is worth a read. He prefaces it with: “Social media, including blogs, wikis, and social networks, are fundamentally changing what it means to be a ‘customer.’ Customers are pissed off. And they’re [...]
