The stream is broken
One of the key innovations in social media was Facebook’s newsfeed and it transformed the site from a social network built around profiles to a truly engaging communication platform. But as every site with a focus on social has adopted a feed, the noise seem to have reached an unproductive level. No viral marketing strategy […]
Startup Visa Canada launched today – your support is needed!
In an increasingly globalized world the economic success of a city, a region or a whole country depends increasingly on their ability to attract the best and brightest from all around the world. This has been the driving force behind the rise of Silicon Valley as the technology hub and whole countries like the US […]
Amazon’s new Vancouver office is great news
Yesterday’s news that Amazon is opening an engineering office in Vancouver is a really good one for the city. While development offices can never replace having “real” anchor companies in a community, they can help attract and train talented developers that at some stage leave the company and start new companies. It is this typical […]
A shout-out to the Vancouver web community
Communities get built from the ground up, by passionate people that dedicate their time and energy to organize events, mentor young entrepreneurs or blog about what is going on. And I am really proud about what I am seeing in Vancouver right now – some highlights from the past year? Debbie Landa from Dealmaker Media […]
What are your predictions for 2011? Here are my top 4.
I didn’t do too badly predicting what would happen in the consumer Internet space in 2010 so I am giving it another try for 2011: Android will become the most important mobile platform to develop for – the iPhone platform will be number 2, the rest (RIM, Windows Phone) will only play a marginal role. […]