Community
Cool mapping site. You can do the following: • look up a person to see what they’re connected to • look up a company / organization to see who they’re connected to • find the connection between two companies (it will draw you a map of the connecting humans.) This is COOL. I still want [...]
To those of us in the Vancouver tech community, it will come as no surprise when Ludicorp hits the big-time with their amazing web-based photo-sharing application Flickr that allows its users to: • upload from Macs, PCs, and cameras • create albums for their friends to view • blog their photos to any blogging application [...]
I believe that Vancouver can become a global center for technology excellence. Because of that, my goal is to do everything I can to contribute to that community, including learning how to build technology companies, developing our technology community, and working with the greater non-tech community to ensure that the entire fabric of the community [...]
VCs are frequently compared to lemmings or sheep, both metaphors describing their tendency to operate in herds and to all run towards one type of business or another relatively in sync. SiliconValley.com is covering this season’s popular fundees – social software companies. More here. For those who don’t know, we have our very own home-grown [...]
Wired wrote this great article on the MoveOnPAC, which was started by two founders, Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, only six years ago and which has become “one of the most revered activist groups in America, supporting Democratic political candidates with tens of millions of dollars in advertising, as well as countless hours of telephone [...]
I have been reading about online communities since the days of the WELL (one of the first electronic communities to ever exist.) Of course, humans have always formed communities as part of their biological imperative – communities for living, for art, for trades, for commerce, for sex, for war, and for peace. And the internet [...]
The Universe is 14 billion years old and will either either re-collapse into itself, expand into a completely diluted state, or rip apart in its 36th billion year in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn asunder in a fraction of a second. How do we manage the polarity inherent [...]
