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by Robert Janelle
on Fri, March 5, 2010 11:30 AM
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When Google sent their camera-equipped Street View car to cruise Canadian cities in early 2009, the drive down city streets became awfully controversial.
As the car-mounted camera snapped pictures of the streets, capturing not only the landscape but the people who were around at the time, there was much debate about...
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by Doug van Spronsen
on Thu, March 4, 2010 8:22 AM
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Ten local Edmonton companies launched their products last night at Launch Party held at the Matrix Hotel. Hosted by Startup Edmonton, the inaugural event was attended by a large crowd of curious entrepreneurs, creatives, and investors all on hand to take a sneak peak at Edmonton's next big thing.
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by Sarah Blue
on Wed, February 3, 2010 11:46 AM
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One of 2010 Digital People to watch, Ken Bautista announced today that Seek your own Proof has closed $1 million in financing from Foundation Equity II and officially launched with their new partners, Discovery Kids.
Watch the trailer for the project below and check out Ken's website for more information!
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, January 26, 2010 7:04 PM
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Mitch Spolan, Vice President, North American Field Sales, Yahoo! was the wrap up speaker at the "Clicking with the Human Mind" session as part of Advertising Week in Toronto.
Mitch started off by explaining that people go on the web for two main reasons. The first is what he referred to...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, January 26, 2010 6:50 PM
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Dr. Jill Strawbridge, from the User Experience Lab at Yahoo! presented a talk entitled "Online Ad Effectiveness" at the "Clicking with the Human Mind" session at Advertising Week in Toronto. During her presentation, Dr. Jill covered an experiment Yahoo! conducted to decipher which demographic groups relaed better to different styles...
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by Mack Male
on Thu, January 14, 2010 7:50 AM
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Yesterday the City of Edmonton's IT branch launched the initial release of its Open Data Catalogue at data.edmonton.ca. The catalogue is in a "community preview" phase, which means that the City may make breaking changes. Currently there are 12 data sets available to developers, from the locations of historical buildings...
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by Karim Kanji
on Fri, January 8, 2010 12:40 PM
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Twitterville has been reporting all day that Mathew Ingram, Communities Editor for Canada's Globe and Mail, has accepted and will be moving to GigaOm.
Early last month we featured a conversation with Mathew.
According to their website, The GigaOM Network is a business media company linking the world’s leading technology innovators...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, December 24, 2009 6:00 AM
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Toronto-based RedFlagDeals.com has updated their iPhone app and mobile site just in time for Boxing Day and they have more Boxing Day flyers online than ever before. If you're shopping post-Christmas, be sure to check out all the flyers which already include Future Shop, Best Buy, and Walmart. If...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, December 15, 2009 9:14 PM
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By now it is well documented that the American presidential election of 2008 was historic. Not only was it the first time that an African-American was a presidential candidate, but it was also the first time that today's social media technology played a pivotal role. And that is the focus...
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by Sarah Blue
on Fri, December 11, 2009 9:24 AM
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Instead of working yesterday, I attended the Gov2.0 online conference and listened to 5 success stories on open government. I was really impressed with the quality of speakers and feel pretty inspired by all of the initiatives around web2.0, social media and the government. Jeff Nigbur, summarized this shift in...
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