By innovation2 on Jul 25, 2008 in Innovation, Innovation Toronto | 0 Comments
MobileWeekend has announced a couple of changes to the event today. The weekend will be held on Sep 12th to the 14th and more importantly the tickets to the event are now FREE of charge. MobileWeekend is a community building event that hopes to bring together brilliant technical and entrepreneurial people to work together over [...]
By innovation2 on Jul 5, 2008 in Innovation Toronto, TechCrunch | 0 Comments
The time it takes to design, build and deploy web applications has been steadily shrinking, especially with frameworks like Django, Rails and Symfony. With that in mind, we decided to push ourselves and attempt to launch a web app in 32 hours. Four crazy days later, Matt was born.
The app we built is a simple [...]
By innovation2 on Jun 22, 2008 in Economist, Innovation Toronto, NY Times, Project Energy | 0 Comments
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When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity you might expect in an energy C.E.O. [...]
By innovation2 on Jun 14, 2008 in Innovation Toronto | 0 Comments
First let me say that Word Press is fantastic software. We have been using it on this site for almost a year now and have been very satisfied with what it allows us to do.
The success of Word Press in attracting a large blogging community has led to some new attention from hackers. [...]
By innovation2 on Jun 7, 2008 in Innovation, Innovation Toronto, TechCrunch, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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“We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select few rise to the level of deserving a post. The large majority, though, never see the light of day. We thought: Why [...]