Technology
Backbone Magazine has just published a great overview of the cleantech sector in Canada that contains quotes from a number of notable people in the space including Kirk Washington (Yaletown Venture Partners), Victoria Smith (BC Hydro), Rick Whittaker (Sustainable Development Technology Canada), Raul Pacheco-Vega (UBC), Helen Goodland (Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre) and me. Thanks to [...]
I’m super excited to be part of the crew (along with Bootup Entrepreneurial Society) bringing the Startup Lessons Learned conference to town via simulcast this Friday April 23rd. For those of you who don’t know, the Lean Startup movement (a derivative of lean manufacturing) was kicked off by Eric Ries, formerly of Imvu. It has [...]
If you’re looking to raise some early stage investment for your company, the Angel Forum is a great venue to get in front of local angels. Information below. Note the following key dates: April 23: next screening session. April 30: early registration deadline (save $100) May 18: Angel Forum event. See Bob’s information below: Looking [...]
Disclosure: I’m an advisor of the CO2 Impact team. I’m quite excited about the work that Boyd Cohen and his wife Elizabeth Obendiente and the team are doing and happy to see that they’re getting the coverage they deserve. They have a great article written about them on Care2.com’s site. You can read the article [...]
On April 23, over 20 awesome speakers are going to get together in SF for the Startup Lessons Learned conference. Bootup Entrepreneurial Society has kindly decided to host the simulcast in their Gastown digs. Speakers include: Eric Ries (founder of the lean startup movement), Dave McClure (the foul-mouthed, opinionated, and obnoxiously right-most-of-the-time angel), the KISS [...]
Behold the future of books. Imagine showing this to a caveman. They would stone you to death and then smash the iPad apart looking for the little people inside. This is truly awesome and inspiring as a creative work.
Check out the world’s best “deskphone.” This is brilliant.
I’m quoted in this week’s Business in Vancouver, discussing cloud computing, along with my industry colleague Sarah Morton from Backbone Systems (a recent sponsor of the Vancouver Cloud Camp.) I’m glad Curt got my favourite line in there, courtesy of Vancouver’s world-famous sci-fi author, William Gibson: “the future is already here, it just isn’t widely [...]
This year started off with a bang with Deloitte heralding 1Q10 as a “record quarter” in terms of deals done (180 vs the previous high of 165 in 4Q09). But only $35M of the $1.9B raised was by Canadian companies. That’s a shockingly small amount of finance for such a burgeoning sector. With that as [...]
Wow, the iPad hasn’t even launched yet but it has been a crazy week. Firstly Apple announced that the whole iPad thing was just a big April Fool’s joke. Those crazy kids. Kleiner Perkins doubled down by increasing their iFund from $100M to $200M. Clearly, they didn’t hear about the aforementioned joke. Apple is getting [...]
Vancouver’s First Cloud Camp is in two more days! What will you do at Cloud Camp? You will learn how to take advantage of cloud computing to do things you could not do before, to save money, to be more flexible and agile. You can get your questions answered about security, privacy, and compliance. You [...]
Honda’s new one person Electric motorcycle. WANT. More info here.
Techvibes and I released “BC’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem – A Comprehensive List” today. Please leave comments, tell me what I missed, make suggestions, debate my definitions of cloud, or whatever else. More than anything, please come and join the conversation. And if you click through the link at the bottom, it will take you from [...]
Watch these in this order. They’re like peanut butter and jam. Perfect. Kevin Kelly tells the epic story of technology from the birth of the universe until now. Then Bill Gates asks for his one big wish for humanity’s technological development: an energy miracle to help the poorest 2 billion people on the planet thrive.
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like crayons and paper. www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Running more effective board meetings. Not rocket science but good basic article. www.cloudave.com/link/running-more-effective-board-meetings-at-startups It turns [...]
(EDIT: I said Milton Friedman who is of course, no longer with us, may he rest in peace. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.) Thomas L. Friedman wrote an excellent post over here at the NY Times pleading with the climate folks to go on offense with a simple 50 page grade six [...]
Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders to have a dashboard that lets them input their goals, and then track their progress towards those goals. Congrats VS team and City of [...]
I found an awesome PPT deck today called How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010. How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010 View more presentations from Lincoln Murphy. Its authors Lincoln Murphy and Justin Pirie do a great job of articulating the high [...]
Strap-on tank converts a car into a true all-terrain vehicle from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine I wanted another Subaru until I saw THIS baby! Forget the Subaru. Maybe an old Yugo?
I thought that this quote below from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, at the Mobile World Congress was critically new and interesting in terms of being a piece of evidence that we’ve tipped over from desktop to mobile as the dominant delivery channel: Earlier Schmidt used his first ever keynote speech at the world’s largest [...]
I wrote back in March 2009 about my hopes and dreams for a tablet from Apple, all of which came true on January 27, 2010 with the release of the new iPad. But in late fall 2009, I decided to get into ebook readers since I was reading a lot more books for some research. [...]
(photos courtesy of this excellent post from the GDGT team here and thanks to the LeoLaporte/Twit team and Ustream for their feed here.) Holy cow, did I ever call this one right back in March of this year. Scary right. Apple has reinvented the mobile industry…again. Apple’s new iPad is a radical game-changer, a disruptive [...]
Here is the Mini Beachcomber concept car. COOOL.
Boris Mann and the team over at Bootup Labs are stealing a great idea from some of our U.S. counterparts – the Startup Visa. In short, they (and I) want to see a visa category created by the government that makes it easier for a founding entrerpreneur to get a visa to be in the [...]
Here is a cool project from Google.org – a cloud based platform for monitoring the health of the world’s forests over time. I’m glad to see Sergey’s continued influence at Google on not just “doing no evil” but on working on tools and platforms to address some of humanity’s largest issues.
Hey everybody, I’m excited to let you all know that the newest version of the cloud computing ecosystem map has been released. The CIO blog post is here, the release notes are here, the press release is here and the map is here. (By the way, I’d like to thank Felipe (at) Liquidbook.com for his [...]
Via TechCrunch: Not Playing Around. EA Buys Playfish For $300 Million, Plus a $100 Million Earnout. I knew this was coming soon. The growth rates on Playfish and Zynga were too high not to get the attention of the majors. I love the quote about “killing EA” and then EA acquiring the team. That follows [...]
I’m proud to announce that today RightScale announced a new partnership with Zend, the leaders in PHP. For those of you who don’t know much about PHP, it is one of the most prevalent web application development languages. It is used everywhere by millions of developers and is moving up into some very large mission [...]
In this article, Russ Daniels, the CP and CTO of HP’s cloud services, made an astute observation: “We think data in the cloud is exactly the right place to be looking…You can’t look at process because you can’t dictate process across that variety of participants. You need to think about what information to they have [...]
You probably shouldn’t cave into those urges to move to Apple’s new operating system, Snow Leopard. You’ll be better off staying at Leopard for at least the next nine months. I’m going to tell you why in this post. I’m as guilty as the next person of always wanting to move to the next next [...]
