Monthly Archives: May 2007

Yulstart.org

2007/05/31 – 10:33

Lots of small edits and wisdom of the local crowd going on at YulStart. Check out the Montreal Startup List for some great info bubbling up.
Tags: barcamp, entrepreneurs, montreal, quebec, startup

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Publishing paradigm shift (in action)

2007/05/22 – 06:03

Here is my liberal reworking of the insight…
Blogging is the worst form of publishing, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Complete perspective over there at Union Square Ventures.
I tried to meet with Fred Wilson while I was in New-York, but my half-assed attempt was watered down by the [...]

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In 2007, is WAP still crap?

2007/05/22 – 05:36

Alternative catchy title : Open Mobile Web is what happens “off the deck” and outside the “walled garden”… aka “in the wild”.
That’s my thinking at least… Here’s an excerpt from a recent email exchange on one of my projects (anonymized to protect the innocents, namely myself) :

WAP might be the way to go rather than [...]

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Quote of the day : You Are Mozilla

2007/05/17 – 02:50

Now don't take this the wrong way :
Do something that you think ??Mozilla? should be doing, because if you??re on the web, and you care about the web, and you??re afraid that we might yet again have a monoculture of stagnation on the Internet, you??re ??Mozilla? ?? even if you don??t know it yet.

Tags: free [...]

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Rococo and MocoLoco this weekend

2007/05/17 – 10:04

RococoCamp is this week-end at the famous SAT. Another great unconference in the true spirit of these events. Many participants already registered. I am sad to miss this event, but it’s because I will be in New-York friday for business during the day and the ICFF Design Blogfest at night, organized by several blogs, [...]

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Pipes output plumber please

2007/05/13 – 11:29

This is a lazy web request. I got caught this morning in creating a Yahoo Pipe for almost all of my outputs. Quite easy. Except some of the feeds have their output not rendered correctly (shows html tags in the final view). I know it’s an encoding problem. I should be able to fix it. [...]

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2.0 eh? YUL rules!

2007/05/10 – 11:08

Marc at Tungle goes for a top corner goal with his canadian startup rah-rah… This is a growing trend, as another Mark has been covering at Maple Leaf 2.0. Indeed. Mobivox. Akoha. Standoutjobs. iLoveToPlay. Librivox. Collectik. Wikitravel. CakeMail. Stars of the web. Kakiloc. Growwwing. Sherpa. Inpowr. Praized (ok I cheated, the last two I am [...]

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Webcom Montreal 2007

2007/05/03 – 05:12

I will be covering Montreal Webcom 2007 (info also on upcoming.org) next week. Some great speakers there, a few good friends of mine and a rare public appearance by one of Montreal’s best known researcher (and practitioner!) of wikis and blogs, Sebastien Paquet of SocialText (go for it, Google him). I am thinking of organising [...]

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