I love checking out Subvert and Profit’s task lists and trying to figure out which links are paid and which are red herrings. Sometimes it is obvious and other times I am baffled trying to think that someone would pay for this content to be bumped. Take a look at the list below and try […]

Tonight I attended the Toronto Facebook Camp, an event put on jointly by Trapeze and Refresh Partners. The night started with a recap of what has been going on with Facebook and its platform since the last camp, which was well done but had a varying level of value depending on how close you had […]

I was reading Rohit Bhargava’s post, How to Speak at a Conference Without Getting Skewered on Twitter, and it got me thinking about some of the reasons why some speakers get killed by the Twitterati. Having seen it on several occasions (it can get ugly), I thought I would jot down a few early warning […]

I’ve heard a number of people say this over the past few months and I could not disagree more. There is and will always be a lot of value in asynchronous threaded discussions. However, message boards as they exist are a dated technology much in need of an influx of some of the features and […]

I went into this keynote with no expectations, having never heard of either Jane McGonigal or Alternate Reality Gaming (for a great example of ARG, check out World Without Oil, one of Jane’s creations) before. In fact, I was debating whether or not to go to this or Secrets of JavaScript Libraries. However, I found […]

First let me preface this by saying that if you are involved in the interactive industry and haven’t read Getting Real, you should. The way 37signals approaches web development really is a breath of fresh air. Although Jason Fried (President and Founder of 37signals) didn’t really share any concepts that hadn’t been communicated in some […]