Archive for August, 2008
New iPhone 3G Pricing Plans from Rogers
When Rogers bowed to public pressure and offered the $30/6Gb data option for the launch of the iPhone 3G, it came with fine print saying the offer would expire August 31. Well, that’s this weekend, and Rogers is extending their little bonus for an extra month.
The Globe and Mail is reporting the proposed new [...]
Vancouver Crowd Putting the Social in Social Media
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 27, 2008.
The new world of blogging, Twittering, Facebook etc is called social media. It’s about interacting with other people, building and sharing experiences and ideas and working together to create new ones. In this case, the medium truly is the message, and Vancouver’s social [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 08.27.08
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 27, 2008.
Want to know more about these events before you dive in? Visit DotComPho.com, where videos of the lunches are cut together highlighting the best parts of the conversation along with a featured Gadget of the Week. The Vancouver Bloggers Meetup schedule can be [...]
Dream Big
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 20, 2008.
Dreams. We all have them.
Your dream might be Heli Hiking, or a South American Extravaganza, maybe even attending the Gold Medal Hockey Games at the 2010 Olympics.
Dawn Bowles’ dream was to get a new road bike.
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz: 2008.08.20
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on Augsut 20, 2008.
You may have heard of Brendan Baker, a local guy who was using the web to try and crowdsource $90 000 to fulfill his dream of attending Oxford for an MBA in social entrepreneurship. Instead of using a DreamBank to reach out to family [...]
Urban Vancouver Stole My Blog
I got into a very heated discussion today with some editors and manager types over at Urban Vancouver.
The site is an aggregator of blogs from across Vancouver and the web. They access the RSS feeds distributed by the blog and repost the entire blog entry on their site. I call it scraping, [...]
Wordpress Plugin: Blog Icons for iPhone
There’s a great new WordPress plugin that will easily help you get your blog icon on the home screen of your iPhone. It’s called BlogIcons from Yoast
Check out how the cyberbuzz and Blog According to Buzz icons look on the home screen at right. (I’m just working with the logo for the cyberbuzz network [...]
Olympic Coverage From the Streets of Beijing
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 13, 2008.
Citizen journalism; it’s you and me with a web camera, or a cell phone and an internet connection immediately posting what we see online. When you bring citizen journalism to a place like Beijing and the Summer Olympics, things can get interesting.
NBC and the [...]
24hrs Blogosphere Buzz 2008.08.13
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 13, 2008.
The highlights of the Olympics will eventually make their way to YouTube on the Official YouTube Summer Games Channel with content from official partners The New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press and assorted European broadcasters. The clips come up at least 24hrs after the [...]
Facebooking Your High School Reunion
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on August 6, 2008.
Kris Lee missed her 10-year high school reunion. She graduated in 1988 as part of one of the largest classes in the province, nearly 1000 students from Centennial in Coquitlam. She didn’t get a notice about the reunion until a friend drove past [...]
