On April 3, 2006 I wrote a longish post about a crazy idea I had: buying futures of gasoline. The game of finding lower-priced gas is just a diversion from the pain of having to buy it in the first place. Maybe we kid ourselves that we make out ahead of the game....
We did a fun interview with Nicole Tomlinson for a story about Dancing Matt‘s internet video phenomena for the Vancouver Sun. Nicole did a really nice job of summarizing our chats and emails and the Dancing Matt phenomena. And just in case you’re not one...
One of the funny things about the web is that as rich media (images, flash, video and audio) has improved and grown in popularity, text has continued as the dominant media type. The web is a wordy place. Word tells you what matters. Words tell you where to go, what to...
Looking for a job with a growing high-tech company in Vancouver? Want to learn first-hand what it’s like to work at a tech startup? The good folks at Techvibes have joined up with more good folks at Launch Party Vancouver to host the Vancouver startups career...
Here are three easy ways to increase traffic to your site. 1) Generate fresh content Create interesting and relevant content and update your site regularly. Nothing beats being up-to-date for keeping people interested in your web site. 2) Newsletters Writing and...
Late last week I received an email from Google AdWords at an email address that looked like reactivation@google.com. Except the email wasn’t from Google AdWords and the originating email address wasn’t really reactivation@google.com. It was a phishing...
Spring is traditionally associated with change and renewal. A time to clean things up. A time for new seeds to be planted. Spring also happens to be an excellent time to announce the evolution in our business. As of April 2008, Work Industries will be Boxcar...
In preparation for a presentation Monique gave at the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association’s Breaking New Ground Conference here in Vancouver, I did a bit of research on resources. Public housing isn’t an area either of us possess much knowledge about,...
If you are a user of Flickr (the world’s best photo sharing site), and have regularly uploaded photos for the multiple years you’ve been on the site, then you may have a huge archive of thousands of photos at this point. How often to you get the chance to...