While guest authoring on Read/WriteWeb this week, Heri Rakotomalala of Montreal Tech Watch spreads the word about Canada's world-leading Internet adoption rates and its growing market for Web apps. Heri points out the obvious Web 2.0 superstars but also singles out some great up-and-comers out West.
Kelowna based Club Penguin is a kid-friendly virtual world where children can play games, have fun and interact with each other. Sony likes what they see and is apparently talking acquisition and the number being thrown around is $500+ Million.
Dabble DB lets you create and share a database, and then build an application on top of it, without requiring programming skills. The platform is innovative, with a simple point-and-click interface.
NowPublic.com is one of the largest user-written news site on the Web. Contributors can share what they're reading & writing, upload photos & videos, and tag anything.
Sxippermanages online identities via a firefox extension and OpenID by tracking usernames and passwords. Sxipper comes from Sxip, which is working on new identity models for the digital world.
GiveMeaning is an online community that reduces the barriers separating people’s generosity from the world's problems that need attention. GiveMeaning is the latest endeavour from former Apple wunderchild Tom Williams.
Rob Lewis
Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
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