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by Karim Kanji
on Mon, March 15, 2010 7:43 AM
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Many of you may have heard of Billy Reid. If not, you may have seen one of his videos online. This was one of them. And it continues to be one of my favourites:
Now, Billy has been tapped to be the spokesperson for the Doritos viral video campaign - Doritos...
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by Karim Kanji
on Fri, March 12, 2010 1:19 PM
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Almost a month ago to the day Doritos launched its a nation-wide initiative that asks Canadians to name the newest Doritos unidentified flavour.However, this is not just any initiative. There is $250,000 at stake. As many of you may know by now, Doritos is asking Canadians to create a video...
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by Karim Kanji
on Thu, March 11, 2010 7:57 AM
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The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, is taking to the digital airwaves. In a move many suggest is his government's attempt to "win" over the "connected" constituency, Harper is requesting Canadians to submit questions on YouTube. He will then answer a "selection" of questions on YouTube on Tuesday March...
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by Karim Kanji
on Wed, March 3, 2010 8:40 PM
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Even though Valentine's Day has long passed, there is always time to talk about love. And with the weather in my hometown of Toronto feeling springlike, I thought, "What better time to talk about love than now!" Especially, if it involves the internet and $5000. And ...
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by Sarah Blue
on Thu, February 11, 2010 12:51 PM
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Always dating the wrong dame? Why not try crowdsourcing the search for your next girlfriend? Because the rumors are probably true... your mother does know best...and so does everyone else. Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are some tips from Chaordix on using crowdsourcing to help you find that...
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by Karim Kanji
on Wed, February 10, 2010 4:53 PM
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Much has been made here, here and here as well as in other online publications about the use of technology and social media in Haiti. However, for the first time in a natural disaster, the Red Cross is using new technologies to help Haitians affected by the deadly Jan. 12...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, February 2, 2010 7:34 PM
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Late last year we featured a conversation with GridCentric CEO Tim Smith. Earlier today we had the privilege of Tim filling us in on their latest development involving Yok University.
GridCentric is proud to open up the beta deployment of its Copper cloud computing platform at York University to York University...
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by Karim Kanji
on Mon, January 18, 2010 3:37 AM
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This past weekend, Techvibes was able to cover the inagural EpCon 2010 conference in Waterloo. We were also able to get the scoop on a new social venture that EPIC launched that weekend called Ei3.
Ei3, according to their literature, is a platform for multidisciplinary experts to come together and tackle...
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by Robert Janelle
on Tue, October 6, 2009 5:22 PM
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"I'm going to be telling you a story," says Gaston Barbon, CIO of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) speaking from the stage at GTEC 2009.
"It's the story of the deployment of a collaborative work environment."
Barbon's story begins more than a year ago with being tasked by...
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by Raul Pacheco
on Thu, September 24, 2009 3:29 PM
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Crowdsourced online donation and fundraising programmes have increased their presence in the Canadian sphere in the past few months. TechVibes has reported previously on (Vancouver-based) applications such as PincGiving and FundRzr. Recently, the Mobile Giving Foundation and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced their partnership to bring...
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