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June 23rd, 2008

Waiting for the next big thing

I think we’re in a rut.  A semantic, AJAX-powered, XML-based, open source rut.  I have had a hard time getting excited about tech news of late, hence the last little while I haven’t been posting as much nor with as much passion as I have in the past.
I’m looking at everything we’re doing and seeing […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 28th, 2008

Blackberry’s being used to save lives of heart attack victims

When paramedics arrive on scene of someone having a heart attack, one of the first things they do is attach a ECG (electrocardiogram) to the patient to be able to give the cardiologist in the emergency room information faster.  Faster information transfer means a patient can get an angioplasty faster.  In Kitchener-Waterloo the paramedics have […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 24th, 2008

How to get a VC’s attention–Advice from Rick Segal

You should know, of course, that JLA Ventures is one of b5media’s VC backers (the other is Brightspark).  Now I read Rick Segal not just cause he’s our VC, I was reading him long before that, I read him to get insight into venture capital and entrepreneurship.
This recent post, which I don’t think Rick’s mind […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment