Category Archives: DemoCamp

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DemoCamp Toronto 20 is May 25th

By Ian | April 21, 2009

DemoCamp Toronto is the show-and-tell for Toronto’s entrepreneurial developers, designers, and marketers. The goal is to see new technology, meet other interesting people in emerging technology, early-stage companies, and making Toronto a better place.
The 20th anniversary platinum edition is happening May 25, 2009; 6pm to 9pm; Location to be announced
Seating is limited (in a TBA [...]

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Towards Building Toronto 2.0

By Ian | February 4, 2009

A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed :

T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source.
The focus of the article was largely on an event run at the Center for Social Innovation run [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for January 27th

By Ian | January 27, 2008

This is what is Weird Wonderful Web for January 26th through January 27th:

Still, or even more, relevant today: The Heavenly Jukebox from The Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000. (no longer locked behind the paywall)
- business economics internet MusicBiz music mp3
In E-mail and the Problem (blackrimglasses.com Ethan Kaplan), Ethan makes a [...]

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Wrapup on FacebookCamp in Toronto

By Ian | August 10, 2007

The FaceBook Camp Developer Garage was a great success with +450 people attending. There are a bunch of Flickr photo’s up tagged facebookcamptoronto.
Joey deVilla has a detailed posting Notes from FacebookCamp, Part 1 and promises more, in addtional to the article he’s previously posted on Getting Started with Facebook Application Development; Using the [...]

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Facebook Developer Garage (Aug 7th) and DemoCamp 14 (Sept 17) in Toronto

By Ian | July 27, 2007

A couple of “Toronto Nerd Events” to report on….
Joey at Globle Nerdy informs us in a few weeks (on Tuesday August 7th) Facebook Developer Garage/Camp is happening at the MarS centre. The Facebook Platform Team will give an introduction to Platform, discuss best practices around product design & viral marketing techniques, and hold a [...]

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Code is Culture Recent Links for July 13th: DRM Law & What’s next in RSS

By Ian | July 14, 2007

The making of DRM Law; What’s next in RSS;

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Secure Ajax mashups by Brent Ashley

By Ian | April 5, 2007

Shaping the future of secure Ajax mashups and how to improve the browser for hybrid Web applications.

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Startup Camp coming to Toronto

By Ian | November 9, 2006

Wonderful news: (Via Rob Hyndman) that people are looking at bring a Startup Camp, The Unconference for the Startup Community, to Toronto (in the winter/spring 2007), inspired by the first Startup Camp recently held in California land.
Many details still to be decided (okay almost all the details are TBD: like the the When , Where [...]

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Demo Camp Toronto 10 : The return to MARS

By Ian | October 24, 2006

A good size crowd of 100+ of Toronto greekry (want is a word for horde of geeks?) made it out for the 10th DemoCamp monthly show and tell’s return to the auditorium at MaRs.

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Toronto DemoCamp 9 : back from the holidays

By Ian | October 2, 2006

After a small pause, we have returned to another season of Demo Camps with Demo Camp Toronto o9, now on a Monday, and it’s back at No Regrets, 42 Mowat Ave., Toronto, ON, one last time.
DictaBrain – Rapid Voice to Text to Blog Transcription
in many ways underwhelming but only because I (and others) expected auto-magical machine transcription not human [...]

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