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May 14th, 2008

More than idea, startups need work, luck, and money

Cambrian House of Calgary closed its doors recently leading many to suggest that is was crowdsourcing that was to blame, but I think Mathew Ingram hit the nail on the head:
Does this mean that crowdsourcing startup ideas doesn’t work? I don’t think so — but it shows that simply coming up with good ideas isn’t […]

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March 31st, 2008

Robin Good includes Cozimo in collaboration tools review.

Checking my must-read feeds this morning I caught a mention of Robin Good highlighting collaboration tools. Given my passion for collaboration tools and Robin usually highlights interesting stuff I read straight away. I shouldn’t have been surprised to see a Canadian tech company on the list. Cozimo is highlighted for its collaborative […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

March 28th, 2008

University of Waterloo puts students together in a tech incubator residence call Velocity

Universities are often where the cool stuff starts (Google, Yahoo … the Internet), typically like-minded folks find each other in class and such, but that’s pretty random.  What if you take a self-selected bunch of techies who are passionate about creating the next big thing and have them all live together?
That’s the idea behind University […]

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March 27th, 2008

LavaBlast: building on a shoestring, delivering, and earning revenue. We can learn a thing or two.

Thanks to Heri for posting the link to the a series of posts from LavaBlast on how their software for franchise owners was developed.  Here are some of Heri’s comments on what they did…
I like to see once in a while a web company that does things differently. They didn’t take any outside funding, they […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 27th, 2008

Is the tide turning on Bell Canada and Net Neutrality in Canada? Hope so.

The story about Bell Canada throttling traffic on its network is building steam.  I covered this a bit yesterday in my post, but Michael Geist adds a couple new wrinkles to this that I hadn’t considered:
Sources advise that the company was regularly asked about its intentions and that it consistently assured ISPs that throttling would […]

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March 26th, 2008

Ouch Bell Canada Throttles Bandwidth Without Telling Resellers: Customer Service nightmare

The news floating around over the past 24 hours has been the news that Bell Canada has been “traffic shaping” aka throttling bandwidth on their DSL service.
Okay, this isn’t great, but okay it’s their pipe, right?  Close, but there is a twist, Bell Canada sells access to the pipe to other ISPs (Telus does the […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

March 7th, 2008

Zero Knowledge gives birth to more companies & two were scooped up too!

I don’t mind being scooped when a) the news is great and b) I’m traveling and in this case it was both–Congratulations its a Startup - Canadian Fairchildren Unite » Billions With Zero Knowledge.
Congrats guys!
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March 7th, 2008

Looking forward to the Building Developer-Friendly Web Service APIs panel at SXSW

Morning from SXSW.  I’ll have my travel and early morning pics up soon, but we’re all here at the b5media ranch hanging out waiting for Aaron and Mark to arrive.  I haven’t even begun to think about what sessions I’m going to, well besides a couple that hit my attention.
I saw on the Dabble blog […]

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March 4th, 2008

Matt Cutts would like a "best of" solution for RSS–aideRSS has that ready for you now

Matt  Cutts made his 2008 predictions and wants a “best of” RSS solution:
An RSS startup will add the ability to take a normal RSS blog feed and produce a “best of” feed that picks only the most popular/controversial/interesting items. You will be able to say (for example) “I want only about three Valleywag posts per […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Canadian companies in the Webware 100

Checking out the list of the Webware 100 Finalist list I noticed several familiar names…
ConceptShareProductivity
CoverItLivePublishing & Photography
Dabble DBProductivity
FlickrPublishing & Photography
FlockBrowsing
MobivoxCommunication
StumbleUponSocial
WordPressPublishing & Photography
Source: All the Webware 100 finalists in one place | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

Okay I know that Flickr, Flock, StumbleUpon, and WordPress aren’t Canadian per se, but Flickr and SU were […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments