Last night was the 26th DemoCamp in Toronto, and the 3rd held at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management with a crowd of ~300 or so. We had a Key Note by April Dunford and Demos by Kobo Books, Status.net, OpenApps, TeamSave, SWIX. and food. kick ass!!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Also posted in Code, Toronto |
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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Shaping the future of secure Ajax mashups and how to improve the browser for hybrid Web applications.
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 [...]
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.
Also posted in LinkedIn, Toronto |