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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWelcome home
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCongrats, Basecamp has helped me build my career off hundreds of projects in the last 5 years.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWow, some amazing discussion has happened so far!
@Casey: Yep, I agree. Industries like entertainment can't afford to dilly dally either.
@Phillip: Great quote from MLK, very apt.
@Alex: Interesting. Were those companies focused on a local market, or a global one?
@Steven: I don't buy that you need to be in the US to build a great tech company. RIM, EA and others prove you can build really successful companies here. Heck, Skype was mostly from Estonia!
@Mark: I need to review all articles with you before I publish them, for proper policy wonk compliance like "competitive intensity". Also, "provincial" is my new favorite word to criticize small world thinking.
@Danny: Now I know the story of the mysterious dude working with Boris! :) I'm glad to hear that Vancouver is pushing ahead. I think some of our other cities need a kick in the backside.
@Stephen: Yes, it sounds like Canadian VCs aren't giving entrepreneurs enough runway to get their planes off the ground.
@Rebecca: You have to consistently break new ground. You can't just dig one hole and say "no oil here". Imagine if Texas or the Gulf oil countries took a Canadian attitude!
@Too scared: Thanks for sharing that info, very interesting to see the numbers on VC investment in Canada. Looks like we need our VCs to make bigger investments to give startups the capital they need to attract the best talent and give them enough runway.
@Thomas: Great post by Michele. I think the CBC is a totally other broken system, and one I'm not sure I want to help fix. From what I've been told by people on the inside, it's an organization full of people with the same kind of negativity and provincial thinking that's holding back our tech industry. I haven't found a silver bullet for old boys clubs yet, if anyone has one I'd love to hear about it.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI showed Beta this pic and he tried to lick the screen. I think we should introduce them to be friends.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Tweet@SteveintheUK: Beta stays with my brother, who the little guy loves a lot. I have to be the disciplinarian, my brother gets to be the liberal uncle, so those two end up in cahoots while I'm gone. Still, every time I come hope Beta is beside himself with tail wagging and nose licks.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThe real question here: why has this not become the hottest campus prank sweeping the nation?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetColin, I’m sure you could also track metrics around a professional’s clients, even during a specific time period or related to a campaign, etc. You could also do verified testimonials through tracking client email domains too (ex @pepsi.com).
Like Amazon recommendations, the trick is to capture all the data you can. You can always weight and slice and dice it later.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThere needs to be a social media reputation system for PR people. If I was building it, the algorithm would take into account:
* Ratings from other people
* How long they have had a blog
* Mentions on blog search tools
* How many times they spoke at events on the subjectForce PR people to register through a whitelist of PR company domains. Discount votes on people from the same company to prevent gaming of the system.
Provide a widget so anyone who claims to be an expert can show what their peers say. Anyone who doesn’t can just be assumed to be full of it.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThat’s the style the kids wear these days
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetHilarious, I just about squirted coffee out of my nose when I read “I’ve also appeared in numerous JibJab videos”
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWell there goes the email printing industry.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI'd love to know what the statistical rate of incorrect tags will be. It would be easy to have a mechanism for voting a tag as "incorrect". I bet it would be very low, but that's just an educated guess.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetFantastic news, kudos to the folks at Google and Facebook who championed this idea and got their companies on board.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetOm, you are one of the nicest and smartest people that I’ve had the pleasure to meet. This industry just wouldn’t be the same without you, so please stick to your guns and get better.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetAlways happy to have more Twitter friends