Your Chance To Change Up Vancouver’s Night Skies
Picture Source: The Skinny by Heavy Industries Have you seen strange lights above Vancouver the last several nights? Well, it’s not a call for Batman (like I originally thought). Vectorial Elevation has been lighting up Vancouver since last Thursday and will continue until Feb 28, 2010. You can take part in Vectorial Elevation as it is interactive artwork. It is looking very popular with nearly 6 million hits to the site so far. Another... [Read More...]
The GPad: Google’s Answer To The iPad?
Image courtesy of www.cnet.co.uk A few days before the Apple iPad bombarded the media, Google’s Chrome team posted some mock-ups for a hypothetical Chrome OS tablet. If Steve Jobs thought the Google Android teams were trying to kill Apple, I wonder how he feels about the GPad? Hmmm, what’s worse than killing an Apple? Baking it? Mmmm Apple pie. Officially, a Google Tablet is just a possibility being floated around the Chromium project. ... [Read More...]
From Yorkton with love-A film festival bitten by social media
A couple weeks ago I told you about going to theYorkton Short Film and Video Festival and yesterday afternoon I returned from Yorkton a very tired but also more enriched person. Before I went I didn’t know that the Yorkton Film Festival was the longest-running film festival in North America (62 years). I didn’t know that the film and video community was so fun to hang out with. And I didn’t know how excited I would be about interactive... [Read More...]
Connected Life Episode 41, part 2
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Slides from my Third Tuesday Vancouver talk: Did you get the message?
Last night was another great Third Tuesday Vancouver and I’d like to thank everyone for coming out (it was stiff competition with the Canucks playing I know). I would especially like to thank Raul for live blogging the session:[From Hummingbird604.com » Blog Archive » Third Tuesday Liveblog - Tris Hussey on the Paradox of Communications in the 21st Century]It’s a good thing that Raul takes such great live blogging notes, because... [Read More...]
Chief Social Media Officer? Sounds as good as a Chief Blogging Officer
One of the first signs that a new online activity is becoming accepted within business circles is when people start wondering about a “Chief [online medium du jour] Officer”. I’m not terribly surprised that now there is talk of the Chief Social Media Officer (CSMO)–Yes, It’s Time for a Chief Social Media Officer | Mark Evans – Is it time for a Chief Social Media Officer? | Social Business | ZDNet.com. I’m going... [Read More...]
Gathering info from the crowd in the cloud-is this collectively smart?
It seems that every couple weeks there is a new service, site, or app whose goal is to help me gather information and then share it with various groups/tribes of people I know. This has gotten me to wondering if we’re helping ourselves find info or just building stronger walls around our electronic tribes. In the past few weeks I’ve been introduced to Twine, Microplaza, the new PostRank beta, MyAlltop, and Glue all of which want me to... [Read More...]
Tris Hussey gets some press
Photo credit: Brian Sword, M2O The Georgia Straight ran a great profile on Tris Hussey today. Check it out to learn how one becomes a geek, why Twitter rules, and how to wax net neutrality. On a personal note – what a great profile picture! Seems to be missing a photo credit though (ahem!)… Update: Forgot a small part here…a link to the article! Thanks @edlee! Tweet This Post Read More →
Connected Life Show #41
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On the Twitter for Business Panel at Massive with Kris Krug and Richard Smith
Bradley Shende and Linday Smith A couple weeks ago Paul posted that Bradley was going to be on a panel on Free Online Services for Businesses, well, when Massive Tech CEO Lindsay Smith was doing some filming over here at M2O HQ she mentioned that they needed another body or two for the Twitter for Business panel. Paul being the great guy that he is said that Lindsay should have me on the panel. I guess she took his advice: Twitter for Business: Is... [Read More...]