Archive for April, 2008
Change Everything up for Webby
ChangeEverything is a Vancouver website trying to do what Juno couldn’t do at the Oscars and Feist couldn’t do at the Grammys - win a major industry award and bring it home to Canada.
The VanCity powered website has been nominated by The Webbys, hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York [...]
Strutta Your Stuff
Vancouver has a few different nicknames. Lotus Land for our laid back lifestyle, Hollywood North for our movie industry, and one that’s gaining momentum – Techcouver, for our fast rising tech scene.
There are seemingly weekly meetups and camps as our local digerati create a collaborative community sharing ideas and encouraging each other. Danny [...]
Scrabble Goes Legit Outside North America
For Beth Snow, Facebook is going the through the usual curve any brand new toy does.
When you first get it, you play with it all the time. In Facebook’s case that means adding friends and applications and messaging constantly throughout the day.
But while the excitement of discovering new friends can wane, and the constant [...]
More Than Just a Website
Okay, you’ve got a business, and you’ve got a website. Good for you.
But – and there’s always a but - is the website just a pamphlet for the business, or are you treating it like its own separate identity with a strategy and personality all its own?
They really should be separate in approach.
If you need [...]
Keeping Kids Safe
Its tough keeping up with the kids on the computer. Be honest, they know more about the thing than you. So everytime you try and lay down some parental controls, google helps them hack a work around.
Well we finally have a tool that will let you lock. It. Down.
The KidSafe Parental Control [...]
Sony Walkman
My wife laughed the other day when she said “walkman” to describe a portable device. Just as kids don’t know what records or cassettes are, the word walkman might have skipped an entire generation.
But Sony is bringing the brand back.
Last week they unveiled three new Walkman video MP3 players with a few interesting twists [...]
Pros n Cons
Bill Pennington majored in photography in college before eventually finding himself with a career at an internet startup. While photography was a passion, it didnt become his life’s work. Recently Bill has rediscovered his love, taking photos and submitting them to stock agencies to get a bit of money to cover the cost [...]
