“Why is Digg constantly updating their algorithm and making their power users angry?” There are diverging views on this subject. Sebastien gives the MBA perspective on the issue.read more | digg story
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Wow, is this the year of opensource buyouts or what? I esp. like this bullet point form the release :
The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate the cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to develop its Internet services business.
[From Nokia Acquires Trolltech â?? Trolltech]
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Standout Jobs officially launched today, and announced a 2 million funding with great noise all around the blogosphere (Mashable, GigaOM, CenterNetworks, MontrealTech Watch and Startup North are a few notables).
The standout crew is well know in Montreal, the three founders (Austin Hill, Benjamin Yoskovitz and Fred Ngo) are heavily invested in local barcamps, founders and [...]
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If I read this right, it means that SUn's startup program is now available in Canada (but the official web page is not communicating this fixed now)…
And there really is going to be a launch: Sunâ??s Startup Essentials will be doing its Canadian launch. Thatâ??s a program thatâ??s easy to understand. Be less than four [...]
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The house is packed at the SAT, keynote by Graham Hill of TreeHugger fame…
9 different things he believes in :
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior… go with your gut.
Incentives drives the world. What are people getting out of it?
The truth is told at the cash register, not in focus groups. Look at [...]
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Moments ago the joint effort of the W3C HTML WG and WHATWG resulted in publication of two documents in the W3C Technical Report space: HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. [Via The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » HTML 5 published as W3C First Public Working Draft!]
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That’s the title of my presentation at CUSEC 2008, it’s all about startups…
Here’s the music line-up (sorry, I can't distribute these, so text list here) :
Vive Le Feu / Bérurier Noir
We Didn't Start the Fire / Billy Joel
Light My Fire / The Doors
Fire / Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ring of Fire / Johnny Cash
The Roof is [...]
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There is no working jailbreak for 1.1.3 at this time. [Via 1.1.3 iPhone Update Liveblog - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]
And I did heard good reports from fellow canadians with TurboSIM this afternoon, so if done carefully, you can iPhone in Canada… but as with other things, I might get bored before long (the potential [...]
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Quote of the day on this huge news, from Matt Asay :
reestablishing Sun as the center of the web is worth billions [From Sun buys MySQL for $1 billion to take centerstage in the web economy | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs]
The short [...]
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Q.Is CouchDB going to be renamed WebSphereDBâ?¢? [From Damien Katz: FAQ about CouchDB and it's new IBM overlords]
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