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...]
2010 Vancouver Valentine’s Day
This Friday, Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Cauldron will be lit. So, it should be burning nice and hot for Valentine’s Day on Sunday! Are you still looking for something special to do Feb 14? Take an evening stroll down Granville Street for the 2010 Lunar Festival. Lunar Fest is part of the Cultural Olympiad which is offering an amazing array of arts and popular culture events. There’s lots of free stuff to do during the Olympics... [Read More...]
Free Stuff To Do During The Vancouver 2010 Olympics
There’s lots of fantastic free activities in Vancouver to take part in during the Olympics. A huge variety of pavilions and houses showcasing different regions, cultures and organizations from all over the world.Try ziplining across Robson street while 6 stories in the air! Or, if you’d prefer to be closer to the ground, take the Olympic Line streetcar, it travels between Granville Island and the Canada Line Olympic Village Station.... [Read More...]
Third Tuesday with Tris Hussey
If you haven’t checked out the Third Tuesday meetings in Vancouver – you’re really missing out on some great events. As the name suggests, the meetings happen every Third Tuesday and include great speakers on everything from new media marketing strategies to how to run a virtual office. Next week’s meeting is going to feature our very own social media conscierge – Tris Hussy. Tris will be asking the question: “Do... [Read More...]
Projecting Change Film Festival April 2-5 2009
I can’t wait to check out the Projecting Change Film Festival this weekend. Running from April 2nd to April 5th Projecting Change is a Film Festival all about sustainability, the environment and, you guessed it, the changes we can make to make the world we live in more beautiful. With films that speak about everything from overfishing (The End of the Line) to the challenges facing American Indians (March Point), I don’t know how I am going... [Read More...]
Massive 2009 Vancouver
I was just checking out the Massive 2009 (April 1) speaker list. Lots of great speakers, including: friends of the blog – Tristan Jutras – founder of webspotter.com, Jennifer Lowther – Director of Social Media for 6S Marketing, and our very own Bradley Shende – founder of M2O . I’m anxious to hear what they all have to say about the changing digital landscape. Still, the keynote I’m most looking forward to is:... [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...]
Jack and Tris seek out cool technology at the mining investment conference
This morning Jack and I wandered over to the convention centre to see what cool new technology we could find that the mining investment conference. Yeah we were a little concerned too. I mean what are we going to find? Giant drills? A new way to dig a hole in the ground? As you can see in this pun-filled introduction we might have been bright-eyed and bushy tailed, but maybe a wee concerned.As it turns out we had nothing to fear because we connected... [Read More...]
Joey DeVilla on Microsoft’s Evangelism and Innovation
I’ve known Joey DeVilla almost as long as I’ve been blogging. Back then it was at Tucows, but we finally had a chance to work together at b5media where I always knew Joey as a Mac-Linux guy. Yeah he did Windows, but it always seemed begrudgingly. I don’t think I was the only one who was surprised when Joey took a job at Microsoft after b5. I finally had a chance to catch up with Joey at the Vancouver Bloggers Meetup.and chat about... [Read More...]
Media2o sponsoring live blogging at tonight’s Ideas on Tap
Ideas on Tap starts in about an hour from now here in beautiful, okay it’s fogmaggedon here, Vancouver. Like the last Ideas on Tap held in November, several startups will have a couple minutes to tell us about themselves. On the docket tonight are: * Ron Moravek – Sitemasher * Rick Goosen – Make Good * David Tedman – Brightkit * Jim Udall – QuickMobile What if you can’t... [Read More...]