Microsoft may be a key partner in NBC's web video coverage of but Google has the coolest snowmobile going.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission,... [more]
The iPhone is an amazing device. But iPhone users realize it's a little less amazing once they stop answering their mail, tweeting and posting to Facebook, and use it as a phone. Add to that the furstration of dealing with a large corporate call centre dedicated to keeping you as far away from actual service and contact with a human being, and you've got a real problem in th epalm of your hand.
Fonolo, an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch based on the popular website, aims to rid users of these frustrations by letting them cut around the usual phone maze and get straight to a CSR. By listing the entire phone tree, Fonolo empowers users to get around unfriendly menus, and the app also remembers your history so you don't have to navigate around menus if you call back. A cursory search of the app revelaed Rogers (my nemesis) as well as informing me that the company is "currently offline" (no surprise there.)
Besides the "stick it to the man" aspect of the app, I also like the fact that it operates over wifi, saving users from onerous cell charges. I don't have a landline, and previously I would hop on Skype for what was sure to be a long wait for service. I've tried to keep my interactions with giant firms over the phone to a minimum, but sometimes you simply have to talk to a human, and in those cases, Fonolo looks like it will keep you from smashing things and going berserk before you get to said human.
Toronto-based Fonolo makes it easier and less frustrating to call large companies with its ground-breaking, Web-based service that puts an end to... [more]
Vancouver has been wondering for awhile what Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield was up to with his new startup Tiny Speck. Last night he revealed his first project: Glitch.
As suspected by many, it’s an online game in the vein of Game Neverending, the gaming project that eventually became photo-sharing Flickr. Glitch is a massively-multiplayer game, playable in the browser and built in the spirit of the web. It is currently in development and will launch late in 2010. Private alpha is beginning shortly and a public beta period will begin this summer.
It's called Glitch because in the far-distant and totally-perfect future, the world starts becoming less and less probable, things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and there occurs what comes to be called the "glitch" — a grave danger of disemprobablization. This results in a time-traveling effort at saving the future, going back into the minds of eleven great giants walking sacred paths on a barren asteroid who sing and think and hum the world into existence and ... you know what? You'll probably just have to wait and play the game :)
If you're intrigued, be sure to check out the teaser video on the Glitch website. And if you'd like to learn more, check out Daniel Terdiman's exclusive interview of Butterfield over on cnet.
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If 2009 was about creating awareness of social media communities, then 2010 should be about exploring how to meaningfully engage. At a minimum, all marketers should be monitoring how their brands live online. Do you have a solid grasp of the social media landscape where your product or service is being discussed? If you don’t, then you are missing out on a golden opportunity to listen in and learn from your customers.
Whether you are new to social media or an early adopter, spend two days with leading social media thinkers, speakers and practitioners and learn how to seamlessly add the power of social media to your traditional media efforts.
On February 24th and 25th the Third Annual Social Media Marketing event will be taking place at the Old Mill Inn & Spa in beautiful Toronto.
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The Mark, a Toronto-based online daily news magazine, announced today that it has closed its first round of funding, led by Innovation Grade Capital. Thunder Road Capital and Venture Communications CEO Arlene Dickinson also participated in the round.
The total sum raised was not disclosed. The Mark plans to use the funding to add hundreds of new contributors, expand their multimedia offering, launch a French site, and sign revenue and content distribution partnerships.
Launched in May 2009, The Mark has assembled more than 600 Canadian contributors across politics, business, science, technology, sports and the arts.
The Mark is Canada's daily online forum for news, commentary, and debate. The Mark is founded on the idea that thousands of credible Canadians have... [more]
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