Digital Journal

Engadget posted two videos of user interface for the Microsoft ‘Courier’ tablet/e-book/digital journal concept in action. Not sure if Microsoft is really working on it but it looks cool. I love working with Evernote and OneNote, but this concept would add a whole new dimension. I especially like how digital features seem to have been [...]

Augmented reality map in Bing Maps

The integration of live video into the online map application is quite impressive.

Dick Tracy watch phone

Now a reality…
 
Note: LG Electronics is a High Road Communications client. I don’t work on the account. But I’d love to try out that watch phone…

All you need is a blog to market your product? You’re so wrong

For the upcoming StartupEmpire conference in Toronto, we shot a few short videos with Mike McDerment, CEO of FreshBooks. In the videos, he talks about his experience as a startup entrepreneur here in Canada.
The first one is about blogs and marketing: All you need is a blog to market your product? You’re so wrong. More [...]

StartupEmpire – The Conference

Here’s a video of Jevon MacDonald and David Crow talking about the upcoming StartupEmpire conference in Toronto on November 13 and 14. It’s a Canadian conference “from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs”.
StartupEmpire already has an amazing lineup of speakers including Don Dodge, Hugh MacLeod, Howard Lindzon, David Cohen, Austin Hill, Leila Boujnane, Lane Becker and Charlie O’Donnell. [...]

Founders and Funders

When he’s not busy educating Toronto geeks on fashion style, David Crow dedicates a lot of his time to organizing and participating in tech community events.
 Now I just came across the Founders and Funders event, which he and Jevon MacDonald of StartupNorth are bringing to Toronto on June 4 – for the second time.
Started in [...]

Road Trippin’ for Research

Stephen Rouse over at IGLOO gave me a heads up on a new blog that tries to explore the “differences and similarities between US and European startup success stories”. Created by three German PhD students who currently travel through the United States, Ventureroadtrip.com profiles entrepreneurs and investors in short video clips.

Ralf Schmelter, Carsten Ruebsaamen and [...]

Email overload through the ages

Here are two quotes from newspaper articles about email overload in the workplace.
It seems that people are so busy wading through the overload and responding that they don’t have time for real work. [...] A few companies are taking corrective action. Computer Associates, based in Islandia, L.I., shuts down its E-mail system for four hours [...]

A new kind of telescope

From the TED conference:
"Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft’s Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft’s new WorldWide Telescope — a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it’s the technology [...]

Ten Canadian software companies to watch

IDC Canada has highlighted ten emerging Canadian software companies in a new research study (press release; research store). According to IDC, these companies have “the potential to make an impact in the information and communications technology (ICT) market”.
I haven’t gotten my hands on the study but a ComputerWorld Canada article provides some very high level pointers on criteria [...]

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