Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum’s Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people.
Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Driving through the small Quebec town of Portage-Du-Fort this afternoon, I came across this real-estate jewel. The seller’s marketing approach is oddly contradictory! It’s for sale (implying value), yet it’s dangerous… go away!
This got me thinking about the dozens of chats I’d had with software startups about pricing models - or lack of. [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
In my early formative years as a designer (LOL) I believed the usability testing hype: it reduces dev costs, it makes products better, it makes customers happier. Soon I realized that was just crap spewed by “usability testing professionals”. The problem with the usability testing mantra is that it assumes all designers [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)
Favourite quote:
I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
This morning, I’ve been nagged by two questions.
Question 1. Are software developers zombies?
According to Wikipedia,
modern zombies come in mobs and waves, seeking either flesh to eat or people to kill or infect. Typically, they show signs of physical decomposition such as rotting flesh, discolored eyes, and open wounds, and move with a slow, shambling [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
i guess Microsoft has given up on the youth demographic who prefer Mac and Ubuntu… Young twerps!
Taking its cue from Readers Digest’s Big Print Edition, the Ballmer Corp decided that an “old person’s OS” was its future. this was announced last week at the Digital Inclusion conference in London.
The PC will come [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
When you’re a pirate, the most dangerous thing out there is other pirates.
Symantec brings us this wonderful story on their blog: the Russian creators of the “Zeus” or Infostealer.Banker.C. malware are including a license agreement for those who purchase their code. Should you be in violation of this EULA, [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
One of the benefits of being an Ottawa-based technology company is the number of tech news sources available: OBJ, Scan, Tech Now, Tech Bytes, OCRI, NRC, and of course a ton of great blogs: Alec Saunders and startup Ottawa but to name a few.
To SM friend Peter Rochon, keeping tabs on all these news sources [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
There’s lots of things I like about this…. First CEO Marc Gingras is a formerly local guy. Second he
founded* NimCat! The most impressive thing about the release of Tungle is the blogger reach. Trials are scheduled with a 30 minute meeting with Marc I’ll report back!
Tungle, an upstart Montreal-based [...]
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