Facebook Weekend BETA

Innovation: These are the Best of Times? Part 1

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Firstly, a few brief observations:

Things are bad and getting worse so desperation may reduce resistance to the willingness to try new things.
The hunger everyone has for change is fundamentally rewiring the basic relationships we have had with business, finance and government.
Trust, the basis of all relationships and civilization is being sorely tested on [...]

Tags: challenges, change, collapse, experiment, Innovation, instability, opportunity
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I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day

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Anyone who’s been reading this blog for more than a few months knows I’m bullish on mobile social networking.

The space is wide open at this point – no one has created an application that has gotten enough traction to go mainstream. That’s partly because of tech limitations – browser based networks don’t leverage [...]

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Facebook Weekend BETA – Report

First of all, thanks to all of the organizers and volunteers who participated in the planning and running of our event. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and it’s great to see so much support for entrepreneurship.
Facebook Weekend BETA was very productive and a number of different teams made significant progress on their projects. [...]

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Skeleton Update

Busy, busy!
For the moment:

1 application built and launched – The Pet Food Testing Project – http://apps.facebook.com/petfood/
3 other applications in progress
no hydro interuption
heating went off on Saturday morning and is still off
flood in the basement of 171 Eastern
some very tired but very happy developers, marketers, designers and business dudes.

Once we get through the floods and pestilence [...]

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Location Changed for Today!

Toronto Hydro has canceled their service interuption today.  We are back at 169 Eastern Avenue for the day.  Hope this does not cause anyone too much inconvenience.
Look forward to seeing everyone today.  3 projects making great progress so far.
Weather forecast: getting lighter this morning with dark periods towards the evening

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