October 24th, 2008, 13 Comments »
At BarCamp last month, Julie and I shot video of a bunch of people answering that question for DreamBank. If you’re in and around the Vancouver tech scene, you’ll probably recognize a few people in this video:
That X-Wing fighter was pretty frustrating.
July 2nd, 2008, 2 Comments »
Irish blogger Damien Mulley devised a generous and clever means of increasing the visibility of Irish tech companies:
The premise is that everyone talks up a company (if they think it deserves to be) on a particular date. Every second Tuesday at it happens. Everyone tech and non tech alike are encouraged to talk about the company so that hopefully a tipping point is reached and a potential investor or journalist or partner hears/reads about the company.
Happily, the first candidate for this bloggy bake sale is our client, PutPlace. The response has been mighty, mighty impressive. For all you Catholics, Eirepreneur suggests that a better name might be ‘Shove Tuesday’.
I was thinking that we ought to do this for Vancouver (or British Columbia) startups. Maybe Techvibes or Bootup Labs could sort that out?
In related news, we’re running a photo contest for PutPlace. All you have to do is photograph yourself making a silly face, submit it to our contest, and you could win an annual subscription to PutPlace for 100 GB of data + $200 USD Amazon gift certificate. Go forth and panic for the camera.
May 27th, 2008, 1 Comment »
We’re doing a bunch of ongoing marketing work for PutPlace, an Irish startup run by a former boss o’ mine. We wrote and project managed the design of their new website, which Catalyst Internet built.
Anyhow, we recently wrote a blog post designed to get a little Intarwebs attention. It’s a big list of over 40 online storage websites. It shows how much free space you can get from each service:
In the process of our research, we compiled a big spreadsheet that records, among other things, how much free storage space each service offers. We thought we’d share it with the world, in case you needed to store, like, every episode of The Simpsons online.
It looks like ADrive offers the most–50 GB of free space.
If you’re looking for spots to put stuff online, this is a good place to start. If it appeals, please feel free to StumbleUpon, Digg, Redditize or otherwise vote in favour of the post.
November 7th, 2007, 15 Comments »
We’re doing some online marketing for Brother Canada, helping to spread the word on their new line o’ colour laser printers. I’ve contacted some local bloggers (using a slightly unorthodox but apparently effective strategy), but we’ve still got a couple of slots available in the, uh, program.
Here’s the deal: You’re a blogger who lives in western Canada. We ship you your choice of these printers (there’s also one of those print-scan-fax-make breakfast multi-function devices) and you try it out for two months. We’ll include a printer cartridge and some paper. You check it out, write, shoot or record a review in any form, tone and medium you like. Then you ship it back to Brother (we’ll cover the cost of shipping both ways, obviously).
If you’re interested, drop me a line with:
UPDATE: Wow, I didn’t anticipate that much interest in printers. We’ve filled the remaining slots.