Startup Drinks Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa – Sep 30th, 2009

Our friends in Toronto and Montreal are also holding Startup Drinks (the last Wed of every month). The info is up for this month, and here’s where you find it:

http://guestlistapp.com/events/3990

Update: Startup Drinks is on in Ottawa as well:

http://www.startupottawa.com/?p=1622

And don’t forget about Starup Drinks Waterloo taking place on Oct 6th. Info can be found below:

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138061698885

For those without a Facebook account: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/442739245

PostRank.com

A very big hazzah and congratulations to the AideRSS team. They have launched PostRank.com today. What is PostRank.com you might ask. Well, in their own words:

“PostRank is a scoring system developed by AideRSS to rank online content, such as RSS feed items, blog posts, articles, or news stories. This scoring system is based on social engagement, which refers to how interesting or relevant people have found an item or category to be.”

For all the details, go check out PostRank’s site. Oh, and make sure to play the video… you just might recognize the voice

Oh, and if you’re not using the AideRSS Firefox plug in for Google Reader… give it a try, you’ll love it!

Check out the original blog post.

The little robot that twitters!!!

Thanks to ScotchNeat.ca I am now following a little robot on Mars (better known as Phoenix). And I just found out that we found WATER ICE on Mars. How cool is that?!?!?!

You can follow Phoenix on twitter too: http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix

A social camera

I was catching up on my RSS feed and came across this post by Fred Wilson (love his blog). It got me thinking. Why don’t, say… Canon and Flickr get together and put out a camera that will allow me to post my picture to my flickr account with the push or a button? I’d buy that.

Oh and what if through the use of a fancy touch screen display, the camera would allow me to tag my pictures as soon as I take them? I’d buy that too.

Because we just don’t have enough stuff that Interweb enabled

The Hybrid Tech Worker

Melle, just had her latest article published. You can find it here.

And yours truly, got quoted in the article

Now… where did I put that conversation?

Ever have the feeling like you’ve had a conversation online with someone recently but can’t quite remember where or when or better yet, on what platform? I find myself chatting with people through email, gTalk, MSN, Facebook, Facebook Chat, LinkedIn messaging, twitter, and maybe a couple more that I’m forgetting about.

I miss the days of just using email and having a record of what was said. I really wish I could just have one client that will allow me to chat using whatever medium but just one interface. I think I saw something like that somewhere, sometime… Now… if I can only find it again.

Any ideas?

Echochrome (I’d play this)

This is a great concept. I’d probably waste hours playing this game.

Zude.com – is this what I’ve been looking for?

You might remember my last post about social media and how I wanted something that will allow me to aggregate all of the services I’m subscribed to and also let me put it all together they way I want to see it.

Enter Zude, now I don’t know it actually does everything I want it to do. But I’m going to take some time this weekend and play with it, but is seems to be more or less exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ll post an update once I’ve had a chance to play with it.

Robert Scoble has a quick video up with the guys from Zude showing off the features.

My Social Cluster

I’ve spent a good 2 hours today trying to catch up on my RSS feeds, for a very brief moment, my reader was at zero new posts A certain genre of article has been catching my attention lately and making me think of my own situation. The topic at hand is one’s social graph. I hate that term, for me it’s more of a social Cluster (since often times, it feels like a cluster bomb went off and all my social data is scattered throughout).

I’m going to join the ranks of people that are asking and hoping for a better way to aggregate all this data. I would like to have a client that gives me only the updates I want to see from all of my networks. And a central web app that allows me to organize all of that information in a way that makes sense to ME.

Yes, there are plenty of those apps popping up all over the place, but they’re all lacking something. What is that something you might ask? Well, if I knew that, I’d probably write the app myself. Picture the following:

I would like to go to one place and get all of my updates. Find out what my friends are up to, if there’s anything going on in the community, read the latest news that I care about and catch up on my RSS feeds. While doing all of that, I’d like to be able to update my status on all the social networks that I subscribe to. On top of it all, I like to blog, but I often find that to write the kind of articles that I want to write ends up being tedious. Not because writing is hard, but because a lot of the ideas I get are a result of having read anywhere between 3 and 10 different blog posts and making odd connections in my head. I’d love it if this aggregation application of mine would allow me to “drag and drop” the articles that I find interesting at the time I read them into some sort of bin. I can use them later to compose my article and reference them properly.

I guess I’m just going on here without being too coherent. I’ll attempt more pointed posts later. Now I’m off to get my daughter from Gymnastics

Twitterwho?

I’ve started twittering… yay me! One the one hand, I feel like I should have done it a long time ago, on the other, I’m still figuring it out, and finally… while talking about twitter I realized that over 1/2 of the people I know have never heard of it. Really? how can that be? I’ve chosen not to use it for the past 6 months or so because, I admit it, I didn’t get it. But at least I heard of it.

You can follow me here: http://twitter.com/confusement