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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 can [...]
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 out that conservation [...]
(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 english [...]
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 Berkeley on [...]
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 level difficulty of [...]
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 mobile [...]
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 competitor to [...]
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 kick butt [...]
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 thing [...]
