Monthly Archives: July 2008

BarCampEdmonton Was a Success!

BarCampEdmonton was a great success this weekend. There were over 100 people in attendance and it was great to meet new people and learn about new projects and interests.
A picture of the schedule is here:

I went to

Financing an Idea
What Problem Does The Semantic Web Solve?
Angel Fund, U of A, Robert
Evolution of Nexopia
Why Twitter Will Rule [...]

BarCampEdmonton1

BarCampEdmonton1 is in 9.5 hours. I’ve stayed up later than usual quickly putting together a splash page for the WiFi network I’m setting up. This will let me track all the traffic it receives over the course of the day.
I reflashed and updated 5 of my Open-Mesh routers this evening. I’m hoping that’s enough but [...]

Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People

My good friend Timo Ewalds was mentioned as one of Alberta’s 50 Most Influential People by Alberta Venture this week.
Timo EwaldsNexopia CreatorMySpace? My wha’? Facebook? So over it. If you have a teenager, chances are they’ve drifted from other social networking sites to Nexopia.com. Since its launch six years ago, more than 1.2 million 14- [...]

My First ScribeFire Post

I just installed ScribeFire, a Firefox plugin that lets you blog directly from your browser. So far I am really impressed! I often find it hard to motivate myself to post an entry because it’s a process to go to my blog and open a new post. Then I have to remember to finish the [...]