Via Traffick, Statscan has announced that year-over-year Internet sales have grown by 80 percent from 2004 to 2005. Retailers reported online sales of $5.4 billion in 2005, up 80% from $3 billion in 2004, according to the report. Retail sales accounted for 14% of...
Last week I asked a few folks I have worked with in the past to help me out with launching my new business, Work Industries. If they felt comfortable, I asked them to provide a testimonial about working with me. I published the first Work Industries testimonial from...
(Cross posted from my Up in Ontario blog.) The week that runs from Saturday, April 22, 2006 to Saturday, April 29, 2006 is BC Book and Magazine Week in these here parts. I’m working with the folks at the Association of Book Publishers of BC (ABPBC) and the BC...
Last week I asked a few folks I have worked with in the past to help me out with launching my new business, Work Industries. If they felt comfortable, I asked them to provide a testimonial about working with me. The first testimonial to arrive was from Alex Brabant,...
Yesterday I discovered a new term: circuit rider. From wikipedia: The term circuit rider, which has its roots in Methodist preaching, has more recently been applied to technology assistance providers who travel to small non-profit organizations in a particular sector...
At times, it will. I can promise it. In fact, I bet that right now you could click around and find something not working. And we think that’s okay, for now. We wanted to launch the site, and it was half-finished. So rather than having nothing we launched it....
Steve Krause writes a lengthy review / overview of two different approaches to music recommendations: Pandora and Last.fm. As he sees it, Pandora‘s algorithm-based approach is equal to the nature school of thought while Last.fm‘s behaviour-based approach...
My tongs, the tongs that I use almost every day, are Oxo tongs. They are wonderful tongs. I use them on the stove, when roasting in the over, on the barbecue grill. I also use them to serve guests. I use them for salad. When cooking and serving, my tongs act as an...
Congratulations to Smallthought software’s Andrew and Avi for winning Under the Radar’s Best in Show along with a slough of other awards at South by Southwest (SXSW Interactive) last week Under the Radar, a conference unto itself. Smallthought are a local...
For the next 5 days the Work Industries offices will be closed for ski days in Fernie, B.C. We reopen on Wednesday, March 8th. Powder, ho! Update: Photos from Fernie.