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Canadians, Canadians, Canadians

October 15, 2009

Steve Ballmer is coming to Toronto. He’s speaking at the Can>Win initiative presented by The Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The event is focused on helping to “define strategies to secure Canada’s global advantage”. The effort is publishing 16 one pagers from thought leaders (there 8 published as of Oct 15, 2009) in a dialogue on [...]

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Getting ready for PDC

September 28, 2009

I’m starting to get ready for another trip to Los Angeles for Microsoft PDC. PDC08 was a great trip, however, it ended really poorly for me. I arrived home from LA and spent 5 days in Toronto General Hospital after complaining all week about chest pain. It turns out that after a heart attack, they [...]

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“Make Web, Not War” aka Can’t We Just Get Along?

June 2, 2009

Joey provides the details the upcoming ‘Make Web, Not War” event in Toronto and Vancouver. Make Web, Not War is happening today in Vancouver (June 2, 2009) and next week in Toronto on June 10, 2009. (Let’s not start about disaster that is the web presence, frames, Flashturbation, no deep linking, etc.). Microsoft released the [...]

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Knowledgeworx – Junior Developer – Microsoft/.NET

March 19, 2009

Toronto, ON Hi – I’m Brent Ashley, independent DemoCamp sponsor and Ajax Pub Nite host.  I am a Senior Developer and one of the founding partners at Knowledgeworx. Knowledgeworx (http://www.kwx.ca) is a leading provider of wireless infrastructure services, technology asset management and networked device monitoring to the retail sector.  Our products and services are built [...]

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Independent’s Day

January 23, 2009

Microsoft is hosting an free evening event at Fed Hall at UWaterloo talking about gaming, XBox Live Community Games, and entrepreneurship. The event is looking is scheduled to have a series of short presentations about how to build a gaming studio. It will feature folks from Microsoft, Frozen North, Infusion Development, and KPMG. Microsoft has [...]

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Software, support & visibility

January 6, 2009

It’s funny, I’ve asked about startups building on .NET in the past. And with the development of programs like BizSpark the continued support of events like StartupCampMontreal and Founders & Funders, and yesterday’s funding announcement at Xobni, there a number of new opportunities for startups to get access to free software and exposure. “Microsoft Blue [...]

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Give customers choice

October 27, 2008

Mark Relph has been talking about Choice and Flexibility (part 2) for customers. Today with the announcement of Windows Azure you can start to see how Microsoft is trying to offer the rich user experience choices and the choice of infrastructure, on premises or in the cloud, for developers, IT Pros and ultimately consumers. What [...]

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PDC kicks off tomorrow

October 25, 2008

Getting ready to head to LA for Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (which begs the question as a non-professional developer what am I doing at PDC?). I’m preparing for a week of some in depth Microsoft experiences and announcements. Next to the coffee or the bourbon, the keynotes are the best part of a conference. I’m [...]

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Mix09 <3 Your Web

October 22, 2008

PDC is less than a week away, and it appears that the Mix team is busy announcing plans for Mix09 in Vegas. Agenda & Speakers There is a great list of the usual suspects and the some new faces including: Lou Carbone (check out Lou’s previous Mix sessions) Dan Roam, Digital Roam Luke Wrobleski, Yahoo, [...]

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A Microsoft venture fund

July 31, 2008

Kevin Merritt has a great suggestion for creating a Microsoft venture fund. This is not new, I wrote about my displeasure with the proposed Yahoo! deal back. Kevin has thought about a YCombinator-esque microfunding model. A three person team comprised of Ray Ozzie, Don Dodge and Dare Obasanjo would be the investment committee. Anyone can [...]

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