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Radiant Core Acquired by Zerofootprint Software, Inc.
After weeks of biting our collective tongues and keeping cats in various bags, we're delighted to announce that we've been acquired by Zerofootprint!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags radiantcore, acquired, zerofootprint • Permalink • 1 comment
Zerofootprint City of Toronto Carbon Calculator Launch
Zerofootprint and the City of Toronto launched a great new carbon calculator today.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags zerofootprint, toronto, carbon, mayormiller, davidmiller • Permalink • 0 comments
Our Very Own Martin
Martin Kuplens-Ewart, celebrity source to the stars.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 10:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags dvorak, martin, martinkuplensewart • Permalink • 0 comments
DemoCampToronto17
DemoCampToronto17 is going to rock!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, February 22, 2008 at 11:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags democamp, democamptoronto17, barcamp, toronto • Permalink • 0 comments
Firefox 3: Meet the New Features
Mozilla is on track to release Firefox 3 sometime in the first quarter of 2008, but you can grab a hot beta now! Here's a look at some of the new features.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 09:20 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags mozilla, firefox, firefox3, beta, browser, addons, madhava, jonath • Permalink • 0 comments
DemoCamp17: It's Alllllive!
Announcing DemoCamp17, at the Board of Trade, Monday February 25th, 2008.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 11:10 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags torcamp, democamp, democamptoronto17, barcamp, eventbrite, wufoo • Permalink • 0 comments
SciBarCamp: March 15th and 16th 2008
Our good friend Greg Wilson (Update: Ooops! Greg isn't organizing, just promoting. Apologies to Eva Amsen, Jen Dodd, and Jamie McQuay, who are all honorary good friends too!) are organizing SciBarCamp:
SciBarCamp is a gathering of scientists, artists, and technologists for a weekend of talks and discussions. It will take place at Hart House at the University of Toronto on the weekend of March 15-16.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 06:30 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags gregwilson, scibarcamp, barcamp, democamp, winecamp, campcamp, mindtouch, dekiwiki, aaronf • Permalink • 1 comment
Harvard Business Review Breakthrough Idea: Toronto TransitCamp
There are magazines about business, and then there's the Harvard Business Review. If you're at all involved in doing business in the western world, odds are you've read an article from HBR or even have a subscription. It would not be an exaggeration to say that a whole generation of thought and business leaders have been shaped by the content HBR has published. And so, along with my co-authors Eli Singer and Mark Kuznicki, it is my incredible honour to annouce the publication of our article, titled Sick Transit Gloria, in the Breakthrough Ideas for 2008 section of the February issue of the Harvard Business Review.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 08:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags torontotransitcamp, transitcamp, hbr, sicktransitgloria, elisinger, markkuznicki, remarkk • Permalink • 1 comment
Visual Basic macros do not work in Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS is a welcome release, but its lack of support for Visual Basic for Applications macros could be a serious problem.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:32 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags microsoft, office2008, mac, apple, vba, visualbasic, pages, numbers, keynote, neooffice, openoffice, erik • Permalink • 2 comments
Bill Gates' Last Day
Bill showed a really funny video full of celebrity cameos at his CES Keynote last Sunday night.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 12:41 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags billgates, microsoft, ces, keynote, funny, video • Permalink • 0 comments
Brockville Ad & Sales Club January Speaker: Doing Business on the Web
Jay made the short trip out to the lovely town of Brockville to be the guest speaker at their Ad & Sales Club's January meeting, addressing the topic of Doing Business on the Web.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 07:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags brockville, brockvilleadandsalesclub, presentation, doingbusinessontheweb • Permalink • 2 comments
Happy New Year! Help Make the World Better in 2008
Happy new year to all of our friends! Speaking of friends, the Zerofootprint crew is up for a TechCrunch Crunchy award so go vote and help them win.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 12:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags happynewyear, zerofootprint, techcrunch, crunchies • Permalink • 0 comments
Happy Holidays from Radiant Core!
A Happy Holiday greeting from all of us at Radiant Core.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 10:17 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags radiantcore, holiday, card • Permalink • 0 comments
Excitin' Eli: Two Big Launches!
Our good friend and CaseCamp founder Eli Singer celebrates the relaunch of his famous blog and the start of a new phase in his illustrious career as he moves to Segal Communications.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 09:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags elisinger, eli, singer • Permalink • 0 comments
Will it fly? How to evaluate a new product idea
Ev Williams throws down on how to decide if your idea is worth pursuing.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 04:35 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags ev, evhead, evwilliams, product, strategy, startup, fly, twitter, blogger, dogster, hotornot • Permalink • 0 comments
Email Standards Project
First came the Web Standards Project, and now the fine folks at Campaign Monitor have launched a complimentary effort for Email.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 10:40 PM in Marketing, Taking Care of Business with tags email, standards, emailstandardsproject, freshview, campaignmonitor • Permalink • 0 comments
Marc Orchant Get Well Thoughts
Marc Orchant, celebrated journalist and blogger and a good friend of ours, suffered a massive coronary early Sunday morning. Our thoughts go out to him and his family.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, December 3, 2007 at 11:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags morchant, marcorchant, blognation, heartattack • Permalink • 0 comments
Deconstructing Facebook Beacon JavaScript
We take apart Facebook's new Beacon JavaScript and then put it meticulously back together for your edification.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 05:00 PM in Facebook, JavaScript with tags facebook, beacon, javascript, dissamble, deconstruct, epicurious, socialads, platform, pages, insights, polls, charleneli, groundswell, forrester, privacy, firebug, tamperdata • Permalink • 27 comments
Hacking Languages with Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss, author of the life-changing 4 Hour Work Week, has a great post up about how to learn a language in a few hours.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags timferriss, jpdefillippo, language, hacking, brain • Permalink • 1 comment
Google OpenSocial: A Coup By Any Other Name
Google pre-announces their OpenSocial API, which they hope will level the social networking playing field.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 03:00 AM in Taking Care of Business, Tech Geekery with tags facebook, google, opensocial, orkut, salesforce, linkedin, ning, hi5, plaxo, friendster, viadeo, oracle, flixster, ilike, rockyou, slide • Permalink • 0 comments
UKTI Trade Mission Trip Report: Day 2
Day two of our trip sees us in Bristol, meeting with some great British companies and enjoying a fun night out.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 07:00 PM in Trip Reports, Taking Care of Business with tags ukti, uk, britain, scotland, tripreport, 3cresearch, bristol, glasgow, canada, baja1000, learninglibrary, mitmedialab, marsdd, uoft, watershed, southwestscreen, io, hmcinteractive, jbsh, potentialdifference, ballfusion, sanoodi, severnshed, whitepineproductions, zincroe, cbc • Permalink • 0 comments
UKTI Trade Mission Trip Report: Day 1
The first installment of our UKTI Trade Mission trip report.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 01:53 PM in Taking Care of Business, Trip Reports with tags ukti, uk, britain, england, scotland, tripreport, suthakamal, lambandflag, caytre, ebay, 3cresearch, hillingtoninnovation, london, bristol, glasgow, ianforrester, cubicgarden, canada • Permalink • 0 comments
Michael Wesch: A Vision of Students Today
Michael Wesch's third video hits the web, looking at what it means to be a student today.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 09:40 AM in Tech Geekery, Taking Care of Business with tags michaelwesch, machineisus, informatiorevolution, visionofstudents • Permalink • 0 comments
HTML5 and CSS3
If you're not getting excited about HTML5 and CSS3, you're either reading the wrong blog or that rock you're living under must be getting pretty heavy.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 11:18 AM in Tech Geekery, HTML/CSS with tags html5, css3, html4, xhtml1, css2, davehyatt, webkit, safari, joeclark, font, multi-column, clientsidestorage • Permalink • 1 comment
Information R/Evolution
Michael Wesch follows up The Machine is Us with a great new movie called Information R/Evolution
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 07:04 PM in Tech Geekery, Taking Care of Business with tags michaelwesch, machineisus, informationrevolution, cultural, anthropology • Permalink • 0 comments
Google for Google's Sake
What if the design of Google had to be optimized for SEO?
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 07:27 AM in Marketing with tags google, seo, meangene • Permalink • 0 comments
Adaptive Path Charmr
A brief write-up on Adaptive Path's Charmr project.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 01:01 AM in User Experience, Design with tags adaptivepath, charmr, diabetes, insulin, medical, device, stevejobs, apple • Permalink • 0 comments
Joel Spolsky Eats Dog Food
Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame came to town today to demo FogBUGZ 6.0 and talk about building stuff.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 07:41 PM in Tech Geekery, Taking Care of Business with tags joelspolsky, joel, joelonsoftware, fogcreeksoftware, fogbugz, dogfood • Permalink • 5 comments
CP24 Homepage: Professional Networks
Jay will be appearing on Citytv's CP24 HomePage show on September 18th to talk about Professional Networks.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 11:19 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags citytv, homepage, cp24, ambermac, linkedin, facebook, plaxo • Permalink • 0 comments
CP24 Homepage: Tools for Buying a House
Jay will be on CP24's Homepage show at 5pm today to talk about online tools to help people look for a new home in Toronto.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 02:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags citytv, homepage, ambermacarthur, housing123, ianstevens, ttc, beerhunter • Permalink • 0 comments
ROM Photo Diary
Kudos to the ROM on the launch of their new photo diary!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 12:02 AM in Marketing with tags rom, photodiary, blog, elisinger, cundari, toronto, libeskind, alsop, gehry • Permalink • 0 comments
FacebookCampToronto Presentation: Anatomy of a Facebook Application
Video of Jay's presentation from FacebookCampToronto.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 07:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags facebook, facebookcamptoronto, video, presentation, bryce, chickentest • Permalink • 0 comments
Last Mile to the Inbox
ThinData.com posts a whitepaper about getting your emails into your recipients' inboxes.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, August 10, 2007 at 08:30 AM in Marketing with tags email, marketing, spam, delivery, thindata, whitepaper • Permalink • 0 comments
Web App Autopsy: Read Me Before Starting a Startup
Particletree, makers of the highly recommended Wufoo, do a great job taking apart their app and three others to show what goes on behind the scenes. A must read if you're thinking of starting a web startup.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 08:03 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags webapp, autopsy, wufoo, blinksale, regonline, feedburner, particletree, conceptshare, freshbooks • Permalink • 1 comment
FacebookCampToronto Report
Report on the great FacebookCampToronto, held August 7th at MaRS.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 01:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags FacebookCampToronto, facebook, toronto, torcamp, presentation, report • Permalink • 1 comment
FaceBookCampToronto Tonight!
Tonight is FaceBookCampToronto at MaRS, kicking off at 6:30pm.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 04:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags FaceBookCampToronto, facebook, toronto, torcamp, camp, developer, presentation, careers • Permalink • 0 comments
TTC: Lifeline of Toronto
The TTC has a really interesting video about the system up on their website.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, August 5, 2007 at 02:34 PM in Tech Geekery, Taking Care of Business with tags ttc, video, lifeline, toronto, wargames, infrastructure • Permalink • 0 comments
DemoCamp 14
Join us, once again, for the festivities known as DemoCamp14!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 05:20 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags barcamp, democamp, toronto, davidcrow, ignite • Permalink • 1 comment
Hiring Season!
Summer turns most people's thoughts towards the cottage and refreshing dips in the lake, but for us it's all about growing the team.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, July 19, 2007 at 06:30 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags hiring, hr, jobs, careers, developer, bizdev • Permalink • 0 comments
Toronto is a 2007 Fast City
Toronto makes Fast Company's 2007 Fast Cities list.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 03:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags toronto, richardflorida, fastcompany, fastcities2007 • Permalink • 0 comments
exPhone (New) Home
Our friends at Citizen Agency launch a clever new site to help you recycle your old cellphone.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 10:46 PM in Taking Care of Business, HTML/CSS, Design with tags exphone, iphone, apple, blackberry, nokia, citizenagency, weknowhtml, reduce, reuse, recycle • Permalink • 0 comments
Fight for TTC Signage
Joe Clark launches a campaign to save the TTC Signage - help him out!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 10:56 AM in Design with tags ttc, joeclark, paularthur, signage, wayfinding, activism • Permalink • 2 comments
Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks
World-renowned activist and free software developer Dr. Richard
Stallman, founder of the free software movement, will speak on
“Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks” in Matthews
Auditorium, Room 137, Kaneff Center, University of Toronto,
Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd. N., on Thursday, July 5th at 5 pm.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, June 29, 2007 at 05:46 PM in Tech Geekery with tags richardstallman, free, software, copyright, community, talk, uoft, gregwilson • Permalink • 0 comments
Pity the Fool
Mr. T says V is for Victory and Virtualization.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:25 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags virtualization, victory, mrt, hitachi, funny, video • Permalink • 0 comments
SuperNova2007: Making Computers Smart
Session notes and anaylsis from the SuperNova2007 session Making Computers Smart: A Dumb Idea?.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 11:00 AM in Taking Care of Business, Trip Reports with tags supernova, supernova2007, naturallangauge, semanticweb, semantic, johnmarkoff, novaspivack, radarnetworks, elizabethcharnock, cataphora, barneypell, powerset • Permalink • 0 comments
Going Supernova
Be careful what you wish for! Just as our travel and conference schedule was slowing down, Jay went and got himself invited to Supernova.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 11:14 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags supernova, travel, debschultz, microsoft, redmond, etech, sandiego, web2.0expo, sanfrancisco, nyc, toronto • Permalink • 2 comments
Mesh: I.A. Podcast
Jay was invited to be part of a podcast on User Experience and Community, recorded at the Mesh Conference.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 03:22 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags mesh, ux, ia, podcast • Permalink • 0 comments
This is Our City: techweek.to Launch
Jay appearence in the High Road Communications techweek.to launch video.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 03:51 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags techweek, highroad, video, interview, markrelph, kennickerson, microsoft, ibinary, davidcrow • Permalink • 0 comments
BarCamp TTW
Comne one, come all! It's time for BarCamp Toronto Tech Week!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 05:00 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags barcamp,, toronto,, techweek,, ttw • Permalink • 0 comments
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Glenn!
A note of congratulations to Radiant Core Co-Founder and VP Technology, Michael Glenn, on the occasion of his wedding.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, May 13, 2007 at 11:42 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags michael, christie, gregory, glenn, wedding, congratulations, thailand, graydonhall, dinner, speeches • Permalink • 0 comments
Radiant TV: CityTV News
Jay will be on the 6pm and 11pm news broadcasts on CityTV tonight, talking about the Webby Awards with Amber MacArthur.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, May 4, 2007 at 03:15 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags tv, citytv, ambermac, webbys • Permalink • 0 comments
Radiant Renovation
An update on the exciting renovations we're doing to the Radiant Core office.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 09:11 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags renovation, office, phones, dust • Permalink • 0 comments
Web2.0 Expo: Powerless
Who's got the power at Web2.0 Expo? Not the attendees, that's for sure.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 05:14 PM in Trip Reports with tags web20expo, oreilly, power, laptop, wireless, conference, complaint • Permalink • 1 comment
Web2.0 Expo Bound
We're heading to Web 2.0 expo and we hope to see you there!
Posted by Jay Goldman on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 10:25 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags oreilly, web20expo, web2open, chrismessina, tarahunt, bradyforrest, twitter, firefox2, presentation, camp, open, barcamp, transitcamp • Permalink • 0 comments
The Travesty of Wireless
Canadians are supposed to be at the forefront of technology - and we're doing a pretty bang up job on the web (thanks Tara!) - but the state of wireless in this country is fishier than Denmark. What gives?
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 08:25 AM in Tech Geekery, Taking Care of Business with tags mobile, wireless, data, rates, rogers, bell, telus, fido, ampd, crtc, vision, tompurves, canada, leader, ict • Permalink • 4 comments
The Importance of Recruiting
Austin nails it: finding team members is the single biggest concern for management.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, March 23, 2007 at 10:15 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags austinhill, recruiting, HR, sales, video • Permalink • 0 comments
Keepon Keepin' On
What does a little yellow dancing robot tell us about ourselves?
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, March 23, 2007 at 08:13 AM in User Experience, Tech Geekery with tags keepon, robot, dance, roillo, marekmichalowski, CMU, hidekikozmi, NICT, transformers, beatbots, spoon, video, cute, PDRP, qrio, uncannyvalley, zombies, actroid • Permalink • 0 comments
Don't Hurt the Web!
Sean tells the story of the birth of Renardo.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 05:10 PM in Taking Care of Business with tags mozilla, renardo, seanmartell • Permalink • 1 comment
Get the Glass!
Finally! A blog post in which we actually celebrate a Flash website as not being a Flashtastrophe.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, March 19, 2007 at 03:04 PM in Marketing, Design with tags flash, flashtastrophe, flashtastic, gettheglass, northkingdom, coudal, milk, molasses • Permalink • 0 comments
Microsoft User Experience Round Table Trip Report Part 5: Wrapping Up
Part five of our Microsoft Trip Report in which we provide some final thoughts and conclusions.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 09:00 AM in Trip Reports, User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags microsoft, ux, userexperience, ribbon, office2007, nyt, nytreader, windows, vista, xp, gadgets, expression, blend, web, design, media, opensource, proprietary, apple, mozilla, firefox, apache, tomcat, eclipse, java, mysql, xaml, oxo, target,
