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Time: Google Giveth and Taketh Away

I am a big advocate of Google Docs. The collaboration, sharing and simplicity of “one document” are brilliant - at least to me. So brilliant that I have been coercing anyone I interact with to use...

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VendAsta Raises 3M for MyFrontSteps

Last week we closed our first round of VC financing for MyFrontSteps and I have been too busy to blog!  The release hit the press Thursday and we were very fortunate to have it picked up by many...

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Saskatoon’s Fledgling Tech Community

I have been meaning to post about Saskatoon and the tech sector for some time but Ginger Koolick beat me too it with this great post aptly titled “Tech Community in Saskaboom, SK“ .  I have been...

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Dream Like A Child

Every once in a while I have a random rambling thought.  I think I will start publishing them, here is a recent one. I have five children ranging in age from brand new to 17 so I have a lot of...

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MyFrontSteps at Inman

Things are starting to come together at MyFrontSteps. We have been selected as a participant on a panel to discuss new real estate technology.  The panel is appropriately titled: Changing the...

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Graphing Social Patterns East Recap

I was working on a post to recap GSP East conference.  However, I just noticed that Frank Mashraqi of Fotolog posted a great recap.  So I am just going to link to it here.

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Getting to Graphing Social Patterns East

Finally made it to GSP (Graphing Social Patterns) East in Washington. Jeff and I were supposed to arrive Sunday night. The hot weather sparked a thunderstorm in Toronto so we couldn’t land and had...

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News from the News People

Some interesting news from the news people at Inman.  Jessica is moving on and Joel and Glenn are moving up.  All of us at VendAsta are going to miss Jessica.We have gotten to know and appreciate...

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Piclens is Super Cool and Super Smart Too

Looks like I am not the only one that likesPiclens (see my Trulia Snapshot review ).  YouTube’s head of monetization Shashi Seth has left YouTube-owner Google to become the chief revenue...

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