Monthly Archives: September 2007

Montreal’s own Tungle impresses the Demo 2007 Crowd

2007/09/27 – 04:58

Tungle wins at DEMO 2007 â?? Alec Saunders .LOG :
Just after midnight last night I received email from Tungle CEO Marc Gingras to say that they had won a DEMOgod award in San Diego. Congratulations to the team! Well done adding to the roster of great Canadian startups winning at DEMO!
Congrats to Marc and [...]

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Twitter supports #tags

2007/09/27 – 04:16

blognation Ireland » Blog Archive » Create mobile Irish Channels on Twitter:
Recently Chris Messina started doing his own version of channels or tags on Twitter by simply marking words in his Tweets with a # symbol. I think the idea was to create a groundswell of support so that it would get baked into the [...]

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Nice and Cool URLs in WordPress

2007/09/27 – 03:35

WordPress 2.3: Canonical URLs « Mark on WordPress :
My goal for WordPress 2.3 was to cover the majority of canonical URL issues that people have and make WordPress automatically redirect those requests to the correct (canonical) URL for that resource. Early tries at this functionality had issues with being too aggressive. I rewrote the functionality [...]

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Thinking about office space

2007/09/21 – 12:39

Being in the process of rethinking our office space (this is a nice side-effect that comes with funding… growing), I appreciate the perspective from Ask the Wizard: No Offices. I must say I am really divided on the subject. On one hand, I think there’s lots of merit to the Spolsky school of thought and [...]

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Stop building social networks

2007/09/21 – 07:40

A long and thoughtful post from Chris Messina - Stop building social networks :
We need to stop building independent spider webs of sticky siloed social activity. We need to stop fighting the nature of the web and embrace the design of uniform resource identifiers for people. We need to have a user agent that actually [...]

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Is Email The Ultimate Social Environment?

2007/09/20 – 08:52

Is Email The Ultimate Social Environment?
Yes!
Done. Next subject…

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I Want a New Platform

2007/09/20 – 08:35

I Want a New Platform… <aol>me too!</aol>

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Job boards… thinking about that.

2007/09/19 – 09:45

As discussed on Montreal Tech Watch, job boards are on my radar these days (for several reasons) and I think there’s some traction there… I really like the SimplyHired approach but they insist on a city in the USA to work with them, so I am playing with a few ones for now :

afroginthevalley.jobcoin.com (cant’ [...]

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w00tSlam - A New Media PowerPoint Slam Coming To Montreal

2007/09/19 – 11:24

Ok, listen to the Mitch PitchTM
I got inspired last night at the Pecha Kucha event that happened in Montreal. (…) That’s when I got thinking…
There is so much confusion out there about New Media, Technology, Marketing, Communications, Advertising and Public Relations, why not take the spirit of Pecha Kucha and tweak it for business people [...]

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Tasty and smart signup page

2007/09/18 – 08:38

Satisfaction signup page. Check out the box on the right: it lets you use hCard to instantly import your public profile data (including a user icon) from Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming and more.
[Via Simon Willison]

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