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by Duncan Kinney
on Thu, September 10, 2009 4:03 PM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Sun, August 30, 2009 8:58 PM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Thu, August 27, 2009 9:02 AM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Fri, August 14, 2009 2:37 PM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Tue, August 11, 2009 4:43 PM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Sun, August 9, 2009 2:25 PM
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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...
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by Duncan Kinney
on Tue, August 4, 2009 12:11 PM
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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...
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on Thu, July 30, 2009 8:54 PM
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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...
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