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August 27, 2008

Crowd wisdom: crowdsourcing from Cambrian House

By Trevor Marshall

Cambrian House crowdsources its way to a spot in the PICK 20

It is immediately obvious that Cambrian House is not a traditional technology venture. Its home on the Web includes a virtual tour of the company’s Calgary offices, hosted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a small but growing gallery of inductees into the National Viking Association and profiles of its team and board members that read like speed-dating write-ups. And the CEO is quick to compare Cambrian House’s business strategy to TV shows such as American Idol and Seinfeld.

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Surviving the Shakeout in Consumer Health Sites August 27, 2008 By Shahid N Shah Categories: eHealth The folks over at Health Content Advisors talk about the business side of online consumer health firms. With big firms like Revolution Health not doing well, it’s getting a little scarier if you don’t have deep pockets to make the advertising model work. As a blogger whose been around the block and... Follow up to "Delight" post August 25, 2008 By Paul Marshall Categories: General More and more you are starting to see super exciting roles for "Community Manager's" at exciting young tech companies. In most cases I view these roles as the Chief Delightment Officer at a company who engages with, support and befriends the community and makes the product, brand and company real to... Interview Questions for Prospective Website Managers August 22, 2008 By Glen Farrelly Categories: IT Staffing Solutions Before I left my previous job, I was asked to come up with some questions on what would be good job interview questions to ask of a prospective website manager. This is for a jack-of-all-trades and hands-on kind of manager that needs to know a lot of things to run a website. Here's what I came up... I want a flying car, but maybe it's not a good idea August 20, 2008 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General Back in 2004, we published an article on what life would be like in the year 2014. We did not predict flying cars by then--and sadly that was a prudent decision--but with any luck we may just have jet packs in the near future. That article, written by renowned Canadian sci-fi novelist Robert J.... Click here to read more Blogs.
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New nanotechnology centre helps turn big ideas into real product August 27, 2008 Sir Terrance Matthews: Global Trends Threaten Rapid Decline of Canada's ICT Advanced Technology Sector August 26, 2008 Should cyberbullying be criminalized to protect kids? TVO's Web TV program Your Voice tackles a hot-button issue in third-season opener, Tuesday September 2, 2008, at 9 pm ET LIVE at TVOParents.com - NEW TIME! August 26, 2008 Book Launch Returns “Larger Than Life” Entrepreneur to Newfoundland Roots August 25, 2008 Click here to read more Press Releases.
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E-books have yet to take off in the mainstream; it seems people really like the old technology: paper. Enter Sony’s new Reader, which goes further towards duplicating the paper experience than has any other device.

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