- Woah! Congrats to PartSelect on a new redesign! http://bit.ly/bPsxMI #
- RT @byosko: StatusNet raises new financing round led by FirstMark Capital in New York: http://bit.ly/99H8JC #
- RT @rogerchabra: $20MM financing for Montreal-based @Accedian (Rho Canada) led by top tier investor Summit Partners http://bit.ly/b9fWBx #
- Game mechanics, invitations & product launches: how to get 10,000 users b4 launch http://bit.ly/dauQuy by @blueleafcom #mustread #
- New job posted: Web Designer / Emerge2 Digital / Waterloo, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/abOhcl #
- Congrats to the Postrank team on the launch of PostRank Connect this morning! http://bit.ly/bIlByh a big step #
- "$22,484 pledged of $2,000 goal" http://bit.ly/99a6Bp << The internet is a crazy place #
- RT @GrowConf: #plan GROW Op – A pre-conference meetup (Century Restaurant) Wed, Aug 18, 2010, 6-8:00pm http://planca.st/6K9 #
- New job posted: Technical Support Engineer / Norada / Canada http://bit.ly/9iZFJd #
- RT @byosko: New Montreal event – Tap in Tuesday for startup mentoring with @sebprovencher – http://bit.ly/bGkPs0 – August 10th #
- RT @aprildunford: New blog for internet startup folks that I'm enjoying – Check out @Foundora http://www.foundora.com/ #leanstartup #
- RT @sgblank: The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors: http://wp.me/prGQZ-1EO #
- RT @mtw: Videos of latest mtlnewtech demo http://bit.ly/bpSdH3 #
- This is how you're supposed to demo at #DemoCamp complete with code RT @fredwilson: How to pitch a product http://bit.ly/bYSzp9 #mustwatch #
- New job posted: HTML/CSS developer / One Street Digital Inc. / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/9f7ZRn #
- New job posted: Great Lead Developer / Stealth mode Startup / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/byivm0 #
- New job posted: Documentation Specialist to Detail our Technology! / Kontagent / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/diJVWv #
- New job posted: Software API Engineer ~ Interface Genius With A Client Focus / Kontagent / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/dfNNeZ #
- New job posted: Customer Support Engineer ~ Social Network Analytics Start-Up / Kontagent / Toronto, ON, Canada http://bit.ly/diYQ3p #
- "Startups die for not having customers, so STOP thinking about how to scale" http://bit.ly/a24SUg understand your stage of corp dev #
Month: August 2010
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Week in Review
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CanCon 3.0
I was doing some evening reading I came across and interesting thought on the intersection of social networks and content:
Media is fast-becoming an important area for the social network. The news feed, long a place for friends to share personal photos and thoughts, is becoming more of a content discovery engine
I’ve posited elsewhere on the role of content in the evolution of the Internet. In a nutshell, if Web 2.0 is the social web, then I respectfully submit for your consideration that Web 3.0 is the content web. What I mean by this isn’t that the Web 3.0 is about taking traditional content that has been available in traditional media (literature in books; movies on film; music on CDs) and putting them on the web, obviously we are well into that trend. What I’m referring to is entirely new forms of content that have yet to be created for the social web
Then my thoughts drift to Canada and the potential behind Canadian start-ups. Canadians have always been innovators in content, even if that innovation didn’t happen at home. Note:
- Canada is becoming a leader in video games
- Canadians are funny
- NFB remains one of the preeminent film associations and archive (and is surprisingly innovative)
- Rush is still alive
- Canada has some of the best animation schools around
So does all this bode well for Canadian content companies? As we think about national competitive differentiators, aspects of a country’s economy that sets it apart from the rest of the world- should we be thinking content?
If Canadian start-ups could combine technology smarts and content smarts, could the result be a whole new class of content, the likes of which we haven’t seen yet?