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Smibs visits Silicon Valley: The real-time web is coming on fast

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By Peter Urban - July 14th, 2009

Last Friday I flew down to San Francisco to attend the TechCrunch CrunchUp conference. This year the conference topic was ‘The Real Time Stream’. The conference was aimed to capture the opportunities and latest developments arising from the the rapidly growing amount of real-time data that is generated on micro-blogging services like twitter, friendfeed and [...]

Resisting monoculture, supporting polyculture

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By Paul - June 18th, 2009

On Sunday, June 14th I attended an event commissioned by the Arts Council on behalf of the city of Edmonton where local musicians were invited to compose songs about sustainability. That’s Edmonton for You! was held at Louise McKinney Park just south of the Shaw Conference Centre. Sustainability… kind of an interesting topic for local [...]