Maple Leaf 2.0 - Technology and Web 2.0 News in Canada

March 26th, 2008

Workstreamr coins "workstreaming" making project-based work more social and more fluid

It’s a fact in today’s work world that projects and project teams are often fluid.  You need some people for one project, but not others.  This isn’t anything terribly new, but what is new is that the “team” is often spread out geographically.  With ad-hoc teams and virtual teams, it is more and more crucial […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 24th, 2008

Share your favourite Canadian tech–and other tech too–on the MapleLeaf 2.0 Diigo group

I’ve been playing with Diigo for a while and getting more and more impressed with it.  One of the things that I like about it over del.icio.us is the groups feature.  So to that end I’ve created a freely open Diigo group for Maple Leaf 2.0.

Please go ahead and go and sign up for […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2008

BuddyPress to help Automattic and WordPress go social

WordPress is the bloggers platform of choice and with its array of plugins it can do nearly anything.  The WordPress Multiuser plugin BuddyPress let you turn a standard WPMU install into a powerful roll-your-own social network, now this plugin has been pulled into Automattic.
What I didn’t realize (doh!) was that BuddyPress was developed by […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 25th, 2008

Jason Calacanis keynote at Affiliate Summit West 08

Even though there is no WiFi in the conference hall, I could not pass up live blogging Jason’s keynote.  Sam Harrelson is also live blogging…he has WiFi cause he’s staying here at the Rio.
We’re second row centre in the “blogger row” … sweet eh?  Steph Agresta is the “hostess with the mostest” and keeping us […]

By Tris Hussey -- 13 comments