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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

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

CityTV Homepage - Facebook

Jay will be appearing once again on CP24's Homepage with Amber MacArthur. Hot on the heals of Facebook Camp Jay will be discussing Facebook applications. Catch the show today at 5PM and 11:35PM.

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Posted by Michael Glenn on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at 04:25 PM in Marketing, Tech Geekery with tags facebook,homepage • Permalink • 0 comments

TTC: Lifeline of Toronto

The TTC has a really interesting video about the system up on their website.

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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

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.

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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

My Trip to the Library

My new new library card is my new favorite thing.

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Posted by Andrew Reynolds on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 07:30 PM in Tech Geekery with tags Books, Library • Permalink • 1 comment

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?

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