From 3 PM to 5 PM on March 14 (Saturday), I'll be giving a talk at the Toronto College of Technology to a group of approximately 80 newcomers to Canada and people re-entering the IT field. With that in mind, I proposed the following talk: Make a Name for Yourself: Creating Opportunities in Diff...

It is often striking to me to watch the majority of internet companies (both startups and established market leaders) only focusing on the US users for all their business operations. It is more than disappointing to see this approach when you are an international user yourself - and a user who wants...

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today - that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to...

Written by Simon Mackie. I had my first real taste of web working back in 2000, at Wrox Press. Wrox used Microsoft Exchange for email and calendaring. Exchange came with Outlook Web Access (one of the first real web apps), which meant that you could open up Internet Explorer on any PC, log in to ...

I gave it one more shot yesterday, and they just totally pissed me off! I posted a job or basically offered to pay people to be my referral and they pulled the job post! Why, they never responded, talkin bout some advertisement, WHAT? talk | money | work at home | online income | home business...

A new job board targeted to technology professionals offers ways to make both employers’ and job seekers’ lives a little bit easier. oDesk, a job board for freelance and contract technology work, boasts a “best business model” for both employers and employees. The site offers...

Photo by _e.t. I left my corporate job in June to strike out on my own as a freelance consultant working out of my home office and coffee shops. I had been preparing to make the move for a while, and it was something that I knew I wanted to try. The technology industry was growing and there were ple...

Prompted by Mr. Arrington’s post at TechCrunch (and the fact that I’ve been wanting to do this forever and just haven’t gotten around to it), here’s a quick list of the startup/tech products I absolutely couldn’t live without: Adultswim.com As a devout fan of Aqua Teen ...

Facebook senior engineer Charlie Cheever flew to Kampala, Uganda, a couple of weekends ago to lead a Facebook Developers Garage and teach 100+ East African students how to take advantage of the growing Facebook economy using the company's apps platform and APIs. Leila Chirayath (founder of Samasourc...

Apologies to Shakespeare for mangling a lovely speech as presented so beautifully in the eternal love story of Romeo and Juliet.  It seemed appropriate somehow. So what thoughts about slavery then? What led me to this topic was a website called GetAFreelancer. I somehow got there a few days ago and...