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Our office on MSFT surface… cool toy!
Apr 2nd
I’m at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, CA and playing with Microsoft Surface. Very cool technology. Here’s a map down to the street-level view of our office in Toronto. Awesome!
ColdFusion 8 Coming Soon
Apr 24th
This might be a little outside the scope of my usual blogging topics, but its exciting! ColdFusion 8 Scorpio has begun its pre-release tour – in case you are wondering, ColdFusion is an internet-based programming platform. It is owned by Adobe, who bought Macromedia, who bought Allaire – the company that originally developed the technology. It’s come a LONG way! It includes built-in AJAX widgets, JSON support, .NET integration, Microsoft Exchange integration, a Flash-based presentation builder, full PDF integration and many other cool features. I may or may not be getting a little excited about this news.
More details available on downloadsquad.com.
World Innovation Forum
Mar 23rd
I’m planning a trip to California to do some business development and go to the World Innovation Forum amongst other things. The conference is from April 17-18, so if you want to join me, fire me an email because I would love a wingman on this mission! Seriously. (Oh, and there’s an unwritten student rate if you ask nicely …)
I ripped off a bit of content here from the HSM website for the World Innovation Forum, but I want to show you some of the people that are going to be speaking at this event:
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Disruptive Innovation
Author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, the business bestseller that outlines Christensen’s revolutionary theory of disruptive innovation
RENÉE MAUBORGNE Blue Ocean Strategy
“Blue Ocean Strategy challenges everything you thought you knew about strategy” (Business Strategy Review)
RAY KURZWEIL A Look into the Future
“The restless genius” (Wall Street Journal), “the ultimate thinking machine” (Forbes), “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison” (Inc. Magazine), and one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America” (PBS)
LYN HEWARD Creativity & Innovation at Cirque du Soleil
Lyn Heward is the creative fire behind Cirque du Soleil–one of the most innovative and creative companies in the world today–helping it grow to distinct 13 troupes that perform on a global stage
VINTON G. CERF Internet: An Engine of Innovation
Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and widely considered to be the “Father of the Internet”
MICHAEL THIENEMAN A Model of Innovation: Whirlpool
Thieneman’s global position ensures innovative products and features across all of Whirlpool’s brands, reflected in an annual sales total of more than $19 billion
RICK RASHID Microsoft: Research, Product Development, and Future Technologies
As Senior Vice President, Research, Rick Rashid oversees Microsoft Research’s worldwide operations.
In November 2006 I attended the World Science Forum, which is another conference put on by HSM in New York. It was a great conference, where I had the opportunity to meet Francis Collins, Marvin Minsky, and listen to presentations made by some of the worlds greatest minds. I highly suggest getting the chance to get out to at least one of there.
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