Create the Future

Canadian Startup Index Launched

Jevon, from Startup North, announced the launch of a new Canadian Startup Index.  The goal of this is to build awareness of what is going on in the startup community in Canada.  It will be awesome to have one place that people can go to see some of the cool things that are going on in Canada.
Check out the site and add your startup if its not on there.

Movie Monday

I'm starting a new post series called Movie Monday.  Every Monday I'm going to (try) to post some sort of interesting/useful video.  Since it is not monday, but I still want to post this video it is a bonus and the inaugural Movie Monday will start next week.  This video is about the semantic web for those who have heard the term but don't really know what it means.  Thanks to Nova Spivack for posting this.

Geekipedia - For All Your Geek Speak Needs

I'm reading through the Geekipedia insert from the latest issue of wired.  It's funny and interesting all at the same time explaining things from distributed computing to Twitter.  There are a lot of interesting people, ideas, and terms that are explained, however given that it is only 60 pages there are a lot of things that are left out.  If you don't like the complete list goto the add an entry section and see what others have added, or add your own.

So far my favorite definition has been Goodwin's Law, from EFF staff council Mike Goodwin.  It says that:
    "The longer an online conversation continues, the greater the probability of a reference to Nazis.  At that point the discussion is essentially over."
So funny, but very true.  If you look at long comment sections on the internet, especially if it is on some sort of hot button topic, you will find this occurring.

Try Out Firefox

I have taken another step away from Microsoft products by downloading and using Firefox as my new browser, and I couldn't be happier.  Before I was using Microsoft Explorer and was having some major problems.  First, I would click on a link and half the time the page wouldn't load unless I clicked the link another couple of times.  Also videos (such as those off of youtube) would only download part way.  The other problem was that while doing some research I was on a American government site and some of the content wouldn't load.  I found it confusing that a Government site would have links that lead to nowhere, however after using Firefox the content suddenly showed up.
So now I'm a diehard Firefox fan and couldn't be happier.  There are some other features that I am loving (such as the automatic spell-check).  I think that everyone should at least give it a shot.  All of your setting, bookmarks, etc. are transfered over so you don't have to worry about losing those in the process (actually that worry is what kept me from switching earlier).  So give it a shot and enjoy.

Free stuff

As I mentioned below I have created a couple of lenses on squidoo that have a bunch of free stuff.  Right now there is a lens on free ebooks that I have found on the internet, and the other is a lens on marketing videos from various speakers.  The internet has a ton of free resources but unfortunately it also has a bunch of useless information disguised as useful content.  These lenses are designed to help sort through some of this mess.  I have either watched or read the content on these lenses, or they come from a trusted author/source.  I'm going to be adding more lenses and more content to them so keep checking back to see what I have added.  Enjoy.