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April 11th, 2008

107.3 Kool FM Victoria will join the blogosphere live on the air Monday morning

Morning radio shows should have blogs don’t you think?  There are always funny stories, community projects, contests, something to talk about.  Well the morning show I listen to on 107.3 Kool FM here in Victoria doesn’t have one so, I sent Robin Farrell this email yesterday morning:
BTW … why don’t you guys have a […]

By Tris Hussey -- 7 comments

April 10th, 2008

Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch–Hanging out with the cream of Victoria’s tech community

By luck and happenstance (love that word) I was able to go to the Victoria Entrepreneur’s Lunch yesterday.  Great time hanging out with techies for a while and talking tech.
The lunch is organized by Rian Bowden of DailySplice.  Rian said it started small and informal and is now growing every month.  There were 24 folks […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 9th, 2008

You want it now, but it’s not in stock? Then Buy It Later can help

One of the cool things demoed at DemoCampVictoria–Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night–was Joshua McKenty’s Buy it later.  Joshua developed and pushed BountyUp for a long time, but on a whim one night decided to tackle a simple problem: you want to buy something at Amazon and it’s out of stock, why do you […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 5th, 2008

Time for a Victoria Tweetup

After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

April 4th, 2008

Success at DemoCampVictoria01–My thoughts from last night

When you launch, launch with a bang: DemoCampVictoria01 Rocked
Last night I live-blogged Victoria’s first DemoCamp and it was a huge success.  The place was packed.  We were in the presentation centre for the new Juliet condos that are going up on Blanchard Street.  The presentation centre is a lovely, lovely venue for event and thanks […]

By Tris Hussey -- 7 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Live Blogging DemoCampVictoria01

We’ll be starting shortly here at the Juliet show-demo centre.  Geeks aplenty consuming wine and cheese…
This is, without a doubt, the swankiest location for a DemoCamp…awesome kickoff for Victoria’s first DemoCamp.
It was a great time. My Flickr photoset from Victoria’s first DemoCamp is uploading

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