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Twitter is my Newspaper: explaining twitter to newbies | eaves.ca

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:15:00 -0800

Twitter is my Newspaper: explaining twitter to newbies | eaves.ca

"If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:08:34 -0800

“If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.”

- Tog: How to Achieve Painless Registration (via marco)

TOTALLY!

8 stars speak out on Steve Jobs - FORTUNE

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:58:47 -0800

8 stars speak out on Steve Jobs - FORTUNE

ignore the code: Kindle International

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:17:16 -0800

ignore the code: Kindle International

Why we use Basecamp to manage our client projects | Fresh Tilled Soil

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:07:11 -0800

Why we use Basecamp to manage our client projects | Fresh Tilled Soil

Okay correction…after a few days I seem to consistently be...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:22:06 -0700

Okay correction…after a few days I seem to consistently be getting this speed. Pretty damn tolerable (and way better than my tethered iPhone O2 3g).

Android 2.0 Platform Highlights | Android Developers

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:31:36 -0700

Android 2.0 Platform Highlights | Android Developers

Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate [Data Visualization]

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:22:26 -0700

Missions to Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate [Data Visualization]

Hivelogic - Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) Explained

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:49:11 -0700

Hivelogic - Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) Explained

"When someone has two or three startups under their belt, they understand a bunch of things that a..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:43:20 -0700

“When someone has two or three startups under their belt, they understand a bunch of things that a first time entrepreneur doesn’t. They understand the value of setting a very clear vision and getting everyone on that page. They understand that they need to hire the very best people. They understand how to raise capital and pick their investors carefully. They understand how to make quick decisions and not let issues fester. They have a rolodex of talented people and potential business partners they can get on the phone or email quickly when they need them. Most of all, they ooze confidence and make everyone better around them.”

- Swinging For The Fences

Killer vaccines and the killers who kill with them

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:50:41 -0700

Killer vaccines and the killers who kill with them

What physicists want to know - Boing Boing

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:27:28 -0700

What physicists want to know - Boing Boing

Facebook | Cody Dobie: ASK ME ANYTHING: answers part 1

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:29:57 -0700

Facebook | Cody Dobie: ASK ME ANYTHING: answers part 1

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal - O'Reilly Radar

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:36:23 -0700

Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal - O'Reilly Radar

Optimism is an instrument of policy | eaves.ca

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:35:02 -0700

Optimism is an instrument of policy | eaves.ca

Brussels Oct. 09 (via trvlvcr) Train stations are wonderful...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:45:39 -0700

Brussels Oct. 09 (via trvlvcr)

Train stations are wonderful places for new beginnings. St. Pancras especially.

On Endings & New Beginnings

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:00:00 -0700

Ten years ago here in Vancouver, several of my friends and I co-founded Navarik (http://www.navarik.com), a company to build software for the maritime shipping and energy trading operations industry. As of this month, I’ll no longer be a Navarik employee, and while I’ll remain a strategic advisor to the company, as well as a member of Navarik’s Board of Directors and a key shareholder, I’m happy to be able to move on to other things as well. It’s the right time, both for me and for the company.

I’ve been lucky to have the amazing experience of envisioning, starting, leading and contributing to Navarik with my co-founders Martin Ertl (now co-founder and CEO of http://lexpubli.ca/about) and Don Hitchen, and our management team. It has been a remarkable journey. Navarik now delivers data for some of the largest companies in the world, in ways we could hardly have imagined at the turn of the decade. Sometimes it’s been hard to remember to look up and see how far we’ve come.

Over the last few years, I’ve been able to move away from day-to-day management, so that I could help Navarik in a more strategic and creative way, freeing up my time to evangelize our service and bring in new clients as partners. But it has still been exhausting, involving lots of travel and time away from home. Now, as a strategic advisor, I can continue to add value for our customers and the company’s efforts, but more efficiently and effectively, while creating time for other things I want to do.

The last few years have been a great experience, but it has been difficult for me to excel at my new role when I’ve been engaged so much in the day-to-day operations of the business. This different way for me to work with Navarik has only really surfaced in recent months, because of the growing sophistication of our business, and the growing ability of our whole team to tackle our different projects and goals. Navarik is an established company, no longer a startup, and that’s wonderful.

I will be contributing to Navarik’s strategy as needed by the management team, but will also be pursuing a wider range of opportunities in software, business, and energy operations. This is extremely exciting for me, and takes me back to the first day I spent in Navarik’s first office (http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/44221427/in/set-439971/).

Starting right away, I’m going to be working with Ryan McCuaig, an old friend and programming colleague (who designed Navarik’s logo several years ago), at Difference Engine Codeworks, Ltd. (http://diffengine.ca/). It is a software development house, building products for the iPhone and mobile markets. I will also be exploring strategic consulting opportunities with various software, trading, shipping, and energy companies through my own company, Bent Circuit Software Ltd., as well as re-orienting myself with the state of the wider software world.

There is no way I can ever adequately thank those who helped bring Navarik to where it is today. The team that is in place now—led by Patrick Rooney and our Board of Directors—is bringing the vision of Navarik that we imagined so long ago into something I am extremely proud of, and occasionally didn’t think was actually possible.

I’d also like to personally thank our early-stage customers and investors: the friends, family, companies, and employees who believed in us and invested in us personally, in our company, and in what we saw Navarik could become. I’d particularly like to single out Haig Farris, who led our first major external round of financing almost four years ago and has been a source of support, energy, endless encouragement, ideas, and vision.

It is an exciting and emotional time for me as Patrick, the management team, and the Board help me move into this next exciting phase of my life. I look forward to the continuing journey. I’ll see you all soon, with a renewed energy to connect with friends old and new.

Honestly How?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:20:35 -0700

gpbm:

How on earth can a giant corporation pick a URL like http://rim.jobs in the age of urbandictionary? (via @danielpunkass)

"We, the people who design software, must keep in mind that we are not designing for an art gallery...."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:13:05 -0700

“We, the people who design software, must keep in mind that we are not designing for an art gallery. Simply creating beautiful things is just not good enough. We are designing products that will be used by humans who want to reach specific goals. We can’t just make stuff up and hope that it’s good enough. We need to do usability tests, we need to make sure our products are accessible, we need to make sure users can actually reach their goals. Statistical analysis is just one of the tools at our disposal.”

- ignore the code: Designing with Data

"The search is on for a new MuchMusic VJ, and a Semiahmoo Peninsula applicant has made it to the top..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:34:25 -0700

“The search is on for a new MuchMusic VJ, and a Semiahmoo Peninsula applicant has made it to the top 16 – out of nearly 4,000 entries received. Cody Dobie, 20 – a graduate from Earl Marriott Secondary…”

- Peace Arch News - Entertainment