Buy your tickets to hear Malcolm Gladwell at F5 April 7
I caught the news last week that Malcolm Gladwell will be keynoting at this year’s F5 conference in Vancouver (F5 is the Massive Tech Show reborn). Now today Lindsay has announced that tickets are now on sale—Malcolm Gladwell – Ticket presale starts today! « Tech Linz’ Blog—for the event and keynote. There is a special block of discounted, early-bird tickets available for $220 which you can snag online. So far I’ve only read... [Read More...]
Blog networks, news networks, media empires: what’s next for us?
With the purchase of NowPublic this week–Examiner.com gets the scoop on NowPublic | M2O Blog–at the office we’ve been discussing the nature of startups, news gathering, and news dissemination. Now today I read about Chad Randall departing from b5media: What Is Next For b5Media? Riddle me this…What is a media company with no sales? Answer…no much! Nothing has been confirmed yet, but my money is on b5Media being put on the selling... [Read More...]
Examiner.com gets the scoop on NowPublic
NowPublic has been, for years, one of the crown jewels of Vancouver’s tech scene. Born a block away from where I’m sitting here in M2O at 1 Alexander Street in Gastown, I remember visiting their offices in the early days (I was one of the early NP users as well, number 211 in fact) and watching as they bent Drupal to their will. Today it’s whole new world, NowPublic has been bought by Examiner.com (a site with a similar model as... [Read More...]
How Canada made Facebook better for everyone
You might remember that Canada’s Privacy Commissioner slammed Facebook about a month ago that it was in violation of Canada’s privacy laws–Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner. This was a big deal. There are real teeth to Canada’s privacy law (PIPEDA) which could have posed real legal and financial threats to Facebook’s future. Today we heard from the Privacy Commissioner again about Facebook, this time... [Read More...]
M2O livestreaming the Masters of Digital Media Open House from the Centre for Digital Media tonight
Into digital media? Like pushing the boundaries beyond what is now into what could be? Cool, then you should be checking out the Masters of Digital Media Program’s open house tonight at the Centre for Digital Media on Great Northern Way tonight. Oh, can’t make it in person? No problem, M2O has you covered because we’re livestreaming the whole thing via Adobe Connect (in partnership with BCIT):You are invited to attend the Masters... [Read More...]
Future Vehicle Technologies: The Canadian Designed Electric Sports Car
Tesla Motors has been making headlines with their electric-powered sports car, well I think we have something cooler up here. Maple Ridge-based Future Vehicle Technologies build a gas-powered car called the Alé (think olé with “ah” sound) which gets amazing gas milage (something like 90 MPG), but that was only the prelude to what they have on tap now… The eVaro is a gas-electric hybrid that can hit 200 km/hr with over 135 mpg,... [Read More...]