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Sarah Blue - Your new Community Manager in #yyc

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Thu, September 17, 2009 11:00 AM · Filed under Calgary , Women in Tech · 1 Comment
Today is a sad day fellow Techvibers. Effective today I must vacate my position as Calgary Community Manager. It's an amicable split, I am taking on a new job as the web editor at Venture Publishing. There you'll find me flogging such fine publications as Alberta Venture and Unlimited.  It's not... [more]

The Alberta Innovation Voucher program - Pass or Fail

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Thu, September 10, 2009 4:03 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton , Start-up, Associations, Government · 7 Comments
Back in rosier economic times the Alberta Innovation Voucher program was an afterthought. A flush government pushed it through so they could point to it and say "See, we're trying to diversify our economy." Despite the economic downturn the first round of innovation vouchers came out in April and the second... [more]

With summer winding down Calgary's tech scene winds up

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Sun, August 30, 2009 8:58 PM · Filed under Calgary , Tech Events · No Comments
It's not much an exaggeration to say that the local tech scene takes a summer long siesta. Events and announcements are few and far between but with September nearly upon us it begins anew.  Stand Out and Stay Connected – September 8 Digital Alberta is hosting a pre-GDC workshop led by Dante Anderson an... [more]

Jon Lam - Fishing where the fish are

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Thu, August 27, 2009 9:02 AM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Success Stories, Gaming, Digital Media, iPhone · No Comments
Jon Lam sat in a cubicle hating his accountant job until he took a thousand dollars and started his own tutoring business. That one-person operation became Ph03nix New Media a hot and up and coming game company employing 15 people that's based in Calgary. If nothing else Lam suffers from a... [more]

Call to arms for local Drupal developers

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Fri, August 14, 2009 2:37 PM · Filed under Calgary , Web Development · No Comments
If you're a web developer who works with the Drupal platform and you live in Calgary the woeful Calgary group at Drupal.org - http://groups.drupal.org/calgary - needs your attention. Join, discuss and frolic in the open source goodness.  I use Drupal for one of my projects (yycBlogs) and while it can be finicky it... [more]

A primer/glossary/listicle on Alberta's tech scene

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Tue, August 11, 2009 4:43 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton , Start-up · 3 Comments
Alberta's tech scene is home to numerous associations, events, groups and government initiatives. This is a primer/glossary/listing of various technology related things going on in Alberta. A majority of these are currently on summer hiatus but once September rolls around activity should ramp up. Unfortunately the list slants towards stuff in... [more]

Calgary coworking group debuts website

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Sun, August 9, 2009 2:25 PM · Filed under Calgary , Start-up · No Comments
You may remember the quick and dirty profile we did on the coworkyyc group back in July. Well they've taken a necessary next step and gotten their website off the ground. You can find the site at http://coworkyyc.com/ - There you'll be able to get updates on the project as well as general... [more]

The southern Alberta solar community wants you!

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Thu, August 6, 2009 10:32 AM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton , CleanTech · No Comments
They want you to show up, network and learn about the great stuff going on in the solar space in southern Alberta.  It's called Solar Innovations for Southern Alberta and all the details are here.  It's going to be in Okotoks at the Foothills Centennial Centre on Saturday, Aug. 8/9. The 8th... [more]

iPhone Developers in Alberta

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Tue, August 4, 2009 12:11 PM · Filed under Calgary, Edmonton , Mobile, iPhone · 12 Comments
The stats are hard to ignore. According to Apple over 1.5 billion apps have been downloaded and more than 40 million iPhones or iPod Touches are being used in 77 countries. A fairly conservative assumption made by Kit Eaton at Fast Company has Apple pushing 3,000 petabytes of data through its... [more]

Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab profiles Tracer

Posted by Duncan Kinney on Thu, July 30, 2009 8:54 PM · Filed under Denver-Boulder, Portland, Seattle, Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Kitchener-Waterloo, South-Florida, Atlantic-Canada , Success Stories, Start-up, Digital Media · No Comments
Calgary based startup Tynt and their product Tracer were blogged about by writer Zachary Seward at the Nieman Journalism Lab. The Nieman Journalism Lab is an extension of Harvard's Nieman Foundation and one of the better places on the internet to discuss the future of journalism and publishing.  The article focuses on Tracer... [more]