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Taking Care of Business feed.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
Another site launches
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP this week launched their new website - another Radiant Core creation. The site features live-filtering lawyer and transaction listings, customised JavaScript market update, and plenty of RSS feeds.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
2002 Called
Dear Mr. Zell, 2002 called, they want their business model back.
I'm sure this is simply a PR stunt but on the off chance that it's not or other publishers forget how value flows on the Internet let me clarify. Links build value.
I'm sure this is simply a PR stunt but on the off chance that it's not or other publishers forget how value flows on the Internet let me clarify. Links build value.
Posted by Michael Glenn on Monday, April 9, 2007 at 10:15 PM in Marketing, Taking Care of Business with tags samzell, google, attention • Permalink • 0 comments
Filling the Well
Blogs are a wonderful tool for disseminating, discussing and promoting your ideas. I advocate them to anyone who wants to promote their business, services or ideas as it has low barriers to entry and offers a simple stage on which to publish your knowledge. It has one fatal flaw though. You have to post.
Posted by Michael Glenn on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 10:15 PM in Marketing, Taking Care of Business with tags blogging • Permalink • 0 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
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
Ikea Ecommerce
E-commerce has never been more accessible than ever before. There are several solutions available from completely custom developed solutions to variations on pre-packaged solutions. The difficulty still remains connecting your real world systems with your virtual world systems, specifically, inventory management.
Posted by Michael Glenn on Monday, March 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM in User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags ikea, ecommerce, inventory, supplychain • Permalink • 3 comments
iCommute - A Call for Spring
Alistair discusses his massive commute.
Posted by Alistair Morton on Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 10:00 AM in Taking Care of Business with tags travel, super-commuting, workplace • Permalink • 1 comment
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, clearrx • Permalink • 0 comments
Microsoft User Experience Round Table Trip Report Part 4: Expression
Part four of our Microsoft Trip Report in which we review the Expression Studio suite.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 09:00 AM in Trip Reports, User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags microsoft, ux, userexperience, expression, web, design, blend, media, studio, xaml, platform, tools, craft, openstandards, open, xul, xhtml, css, adobe, illustrator, apple, iphoto, aperture, lightroom, frontpage, visualbasic, jeffhan, google, picasa, iview • Permalink • 1 comment
Microsoft User Experience Round Table Trip Report Part 3: Design Matters (Maybe?)
Part Three of our Microsoft Trip Report in which we talk about some rough spots where design doesn't matter enough (yet).
Posted by Jay Goldman on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 09:00 AM in Trip Reports, User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags microsoft, ux, userexperience, trip, report, design, knowthyuser, expression, blend, gadgets, windows, live • Permalink • 0 comments
Microsoft User Experience Round Table Trip Report Part 2: The New Microsoft (Again)
Part two of our trip report from the Microsoft UX Trip Report, discussing Microsoft's new direction as a design-focused company.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 09:00 AM in Trip Reports, User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags microsoft, ux, userexperience, trip, report, billgates, memo, internet, design, craft, MSDN, ribbon, nyt, reader, labs, austinhill • Permalink • 0 comments
Microsoft User Experience Round Table Trip Report: Part 1
Part one of the Trip Report from the Microsoft User Experience Round Table, held in Seattle on March 19th and 20th, 2007.
Posted by Jay Goldman on Monday, March 12, 2007 at 09:00 AM in Trip Reports, User Experience, Taking Care of Business with tags ux, microsoft, bellevue, westin, danielshapiro, johnoxley, apple, ryanapps, traffik, colinbowern, officialcommunity, audreycarr, organic, davidcrow, nicoleflippance, highroad, tomgeorge, designaxiom, davegoodwin, uwaterloo,