CivicSpace Labs helps launch GoodStorm online ecommerce
Congrats to the CivicSpace Labs team for helping get GoodStorm, a Drupal-built merchandising service for non-profits, out the door.
By Boris MannBlog · 2005
109 posts published in 2005.
Microsoft and MTV Team up to Develop the Next Online Music Store
MTV and Microsoft announce URGE, an online music service for Windows Media Player that will not work with Apple computers or iPods.
By Robert ScalesVoIP Wars - Yahoo, MSN, Google; from Skype to Vonage
Yahoo and MSN both announce VoIP services; why more competition in internet telephony should be good for small businesses like Raincity.
By Robert ScalesThe sad state of weblog APIs
Weblog APIs are really CMS publishing APIs, and their loose implementations hold back clients like ecto, Qumana and MarsEdit.
By Boris MannBlogs n Dogs - eMarketing: From email to web 2.0
Notes from the Blogs n Dogs eMarketing session: what eMarketing is, 2005 visibility figures, search behaviour, trends and marketing tips.
By Robert ScalesLisa Williams, Drupal, and OPML
Boris Mann on H2Otown as a Bryght-hosted Drupal site, and how Drupal's book module could map to OPML for outline editing.
By Boris MannWeb 2.0 and Personal Brand Development Presentation
Boris Mann's talk at Sunaptic on personal brand development and Web 2.0, with his take and starter links for setting up your own online space.
By Boris MannBarCamp Amsterdam 2005 People
I've uploaded my photo video of the people of BarCamp Amsterdam 2005 to several video sharing services, most of which transcode the video.
By Roland TanglaoRaincity Studios and the BNMI presents Blogs n Dogs
After nearly 2 months of planning, Blogs n Dogs, a master workshop series on blogs and social tools with the Banff New Media Institute, is happening.
By Robert ScalesSOHO-SME: CEO and Entrepreneur Panel
Notes from a SOHO-SME panel with Andrea Slingsby (Flight Centre), Stephen Smith (Webnames) and Brian Scudamore (1-800-GOT-JUNK).
By Will Pate[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Chad Phillips - Drupal undelete, Angela's form thoughts
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005 notes: Chad Phillips on a Drupal undelete/trash system, and the debate over Form API backward compatibility.
By Roland Tanglao[Drupal Con AMS 2005] Chris Messina on Microformats and Drupal
Session notes from DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005: Chris Messina on microformats principles, rel-tag, XFN, hCalendar, hCard and what they mean for Drupal.
By Roland TanglaoFirst Innovation Commons Meeting at Take5 Cafe
Boris Mann of Bryght has been tinkering with the concept of an "open" shared office space in Vancouver — an artist commons for businesses.
By Robert ScalesWeb 2.0 Conference: Launchpad
Notes on the startups presented at the Web 2.0 Conference Launchpad, from Socialtext and Rollyo to Zimbra, Flock and PubSub.
By Will PateWeb 2.0 Conference: The Future of Entertainment
Mark Cuban, Reed Hastings, Michael Powell and Evan Williams on online video, broadband policy, lawsuits and consumer generated media.
By Will PateCreative Canux: Storyboarding Presentation by Woody Woodman
Day 3 kicked off with Woody Woodman, Co-Founder and Head of Story at Ravenwood Entertainment and former Disney storyboard artist.
By Robert ScalesCreative CANUX: Interaction Design for Rich Internet Applications
Anne Yeo and Bruce Pomeroy of Blast Radius on best practices in interaction design for rich internet applications.
By Will PateCreative CANUX: Translating Data into Design
Marc Rettig of Fit Associates on design as fitting constraining forces, and translating research data into design outcomes.
By Will PateBNMI’s Creative Canux - Field Research Presentation by Steve Portigal.
Day two of Creative Canux at the BNMI Accelerator Program opened with a customer field research presentation and workshop by Steve Portigal.
By Robert ScalesBNMI's Creative Canux- Design Slam: A workshop led by Dave Robertson and friends.
Five teams were given a design challenge: improve the user experience at gas stations and convenience stores for a made-up oil company.
By Robert ScalesAsterisk comes to Drupal
The Asterisk open source IP PBX community moves its news site to Drupal, and a new module brings telephony integration to Drupal.
By Boris MannClaiming Technorati (and thanks for lunch)
Lunch with Tantek and Ryan of Technorati about microformats, and why claiming weblogs in a multi-user system like Drupal is kind of a pain.
By Boris MannSXSW panel ideas
A proposed SXSW panel spanning music and interactive tech: how musicians can use the Internet to build communities and distribute their work.
By Colin BrumelleDouglas Anthony Cooper: A Reflection of the Past Ten Years in New Media
The Banff New Media Institute presented an evening with novelist Douglas Cooper: Stumbling Through the Nineties.
By Robert ScalesLive feed to the BNMI's Interactive Screen 0.5
How to follow the Banff New Media Institute’s Interactive Screen 0.5 conference through its live audio feed.
By Robert ScalesSpecialty Markets: Children’s Content & Cross Platform Approach
Steve Comeau of Collideascope and Ken Bautista of Hotrocket presented past and current projects in children’s content, games and learning tools.
By Robert ScalesWayne Dunkley's Presentation on Experience Design: Personalization
In this Interactive screen 0.5 forum, we where presented 3 interactive projects by Mouna Andraos, Wayne Dunkley and Julia Hayward.
By Robert ScalesBlog Business Summit: Blog Writing Style
Molly Holzschlag and Darren Barefoot at the Blog Business Summit on blog writing style: edit, correct openly, find your voice, tell your story.
By Will PateHow to co-produce with the BNMI
For the afternoon session of day 3 at the BNMI's interactive screen 0.5 we could choose between a serie of workshops on law, finance and production.
By Robert ScalesBlog Business Summit: Blogs That Sell
Buzz Bruggerman and DL Byron at the Blog Business Summit on how blogs sell products: markets are conversations, products are conversations.
By Will PateBlog Business Summit: Building Blog Traffic
Robert Scoble and Dave Taylor at the Blog Business Summit on building blog traffic: links, keywords, titles, RSS and meeting other bloggers.
By Will PateBlog Business Summit: Building Community and Traffic
John Cass, David Wharton and Buzz Bruggerman at the Blog Business Summit on online communities, blog marketing and listening to customers.
By Will PateBlog Business Summit: Dealing With Bloggers
Janet Johnson and Robert Scoble at the Blog Business Summit on paying bloggers, pitching bloggers, and handling a crisis online.
By Will PateSleepless in Banff
I don't know what's up with me these days, but I have been having a hard time sleeping.
By Robert ScalesDigital Smart in Global Times. Economic Frameworks for IT Development
Here's some notes from the workshop on "Digital Smart in Global Times. Economic Frameworks for IT Development".
By Robert ScalesResourcing Your Vision
The following are some of my notes from the presentation by WM Leler, CEO, eMarket Group.
By Robert ScalesTaking It to the Streets! Grassroots Approaches to Developing New Media Knowledge, Networks and Economies
This informative panel showcased the stories of each participant perhaps more than any other today.
By Mark YuasaHal Josephson Presentation on BizDev for Doers
The Second guest speaker of the day was Hal Josephson, who shared a wealth of information on business development and planning.
By Robert ScalesTalking About a Generation II - Precedence, Practice and the Present.
This panel composed of Stephen Selznick, Narendra Pachkhede and Jamie King covered a selection of key new media @ IP landmark moments.
By Robert ScalesBryght Security
Drupal security releases are applied automatically for Bryght customers; the latest patch is already rolled out to the entire customer base.
By James WalkerDries Buytaert - OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference Cool People
You wouldn't know that Dries is the founder and project lead of Drupal if you had hung out at the booth with him at OSCON.
By Roland TanglaoOpen Source Momentum and the greatness of commodity
TinyMCE lands in WordPress and Drupal bundles: how open source momentum turns features like WYSIWYG editing into commodity.
By Boris MannStrathcona BIA Site Launches
We've finished the major work on the new Strathcona Business Improvement Association website, built with Capulet Communications on Drupal.
By Will PateOSCON and DrupalCon in Portland
Boris Mann's report from OSCON 2005 and DrupalCon Portland: who came, local user groups, Drupal in education and hub-and-spoke sites.
By Boris Mannjvd is coming to OSCON
John VanDyk heads to OSCON 2005; Boris Mann on why Drupal's publish and subscribe modules beat RSS for passing rich content between sites.
By Boris MannOSCON aggregator has a blended RSS feed as well as an HTML page
The Event Blogging OSCON aggregator offers both an HTML page and a blended RSS feed combining Flickr, del.icio.us, PubSub, Technorati and Feedster.
By Roland TanglaoSmart Phone Review: i-Mate PDA2K
Last month Mark, Will and I decided to get us some new toys. We each selected a mobile device.
By Robert ScalesDrupalART website launched
DrupalART is a site dedicated to helping people build and develop Drupal sites for artists and musicians.
By Colin BrumelleBryght's Recording Artist and Record Label Platform in Development
Bryght starts developing 'Backstage', a platform for artists and labels to build online communities and open new revenue streams.
By Colin BrumelleMicrosoft's Dean Hachamovitch - Gnomedex 2005
Live notes from Microsoft's Gnomedex 2005 session: RSS in Longhorn, the IE 7 demo, Simple List Extensions and the audience Q&A.
By Roland TanglaoRaincity Goes Smartphone Crazy
Robert, Will and I bought three of the smartest phones on the market. Here is why I went with the Treo 650.
By Mark YuasaNew Media Lunch and Learn - Blogs
Our first new media lunch and learn covered blogs: how to spot one, what makes them significant and how to experiment with one.
By Will PateWhat's Web 2.0?
Raincity Studios has launched a community-driven site called What's Web 2.0, where anyone can take part in defining the idea.
By Will PateIterative Web Marketing
Traditional web marketing is shotgun, one-way, push advertising, and consumers know it. Blog tools make a two-way approach possible.
By Will PateiPhoto plug-in for Drupal
A new Drupal module implements the Gallery Remote protocol, so tools like the iPhoto plugin can mass upload images into Drupal.
By Boris MannWelcome to the New Raincity and The Standard Sites
Welcome to the new Raincity Studios' web site, this is our fourth version in just over 18 months, I have to say I am ecstatic about it.
By Robert ScalesA New Model for Paid Blogging
Blog publishing has lowered the barrier for businesses to start their own publication. Here is a model that rewards paid bloggers for results.
By Will PateThis Bloggy Thing We Do
A question keeps surfacing as we work on blog and Web 2.0 sites: “What do you call what we do?”
By Mark Yuasa37Signals Delivers Basecamp for Your Mom
Ta-da List takes the To-Dos from Basecamp, keeps the usable 37Signals experience, and makes it free.
By Mark YuasaReverse Bounties Round Two: RFF Portfolio Module
The first reverse bounty was a success: the securesite module is live on Drupal.org. Here is my Request for Funding for a portfolio.module.
By Boris MannRobert and Mark Presenting on eMarketing at the University of Phoenix
Robert and I guest spoke at Ean Jackson's University of Phoenix eMarketing class: Internet Marketing past, present and future in 20 slides.
By Mark YuasaThank You Flickr!
From a New Media BC blogging night to a paid Flickr account and Creative Commons: why Robert started sharing his 8,000-image library, and a thank-you to Flickr.
By Robert ScalesDrupal "Theme Garden"
Coinciding with the 4.6 release, Drupal.org has started the Drupal Theme Garden, an homage to Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden.
By Mark YuasaTrained Wolves
Don Park made several blog posts about open source 'wolves' "shredding value" by duplicating proprietary functionality.
By Boris MannYou Too Can Touch
Nintendo's TouchingIsGood.com campaign apes the media-blogger thing but forgets to let you share it.
By Mark YuasaFive new contributed themes courtesy of the guys at GoodBasic.com
The folks over at Good Basic have been converting brilliant templates from other CMS packages into Drupal templates.
By Adrian RossouwPreview: CS2, Not to be Confused with CSS
Like death and taxes, regular updates to Adobe's indispensible software are inevitable. This CS2 upgrade might be worth it.
By Mark YuasaWeb 2.0: The PHP Layer Cake
Notes from a Web 2.0 talk at the Vancouver PHP Users Group: the web application layer cake, with a Greasemonkey demo and user scripts.
By Boris MannReverse Bounties
A "reverse bounty" is a concept I was discussing at the 2005 Drupal conference.
By Boris MannDrupal and Raincity, Sitting in a Tree...
We've hit upon a brilliant platform in our pursuit of Web 2.0: it's called Drupal.
By Mark YuasaRCS and Bryght at TechVibes - Massive 2005
I had a great day at Massive 2005, Mark and I hanged out with the Bryght guys and helped with handing out information on their hosted CMS service.
By Robert ScalesDrupal Conference videos online
Audio and video of the first Drupal conference (DrupalCon 1, FOSDEM 2005) are online, including James Walker's "Multimedia in Drupal" talk.
By James WalkerWeb 2.0 Definition - Under Construction
Roland pointed to the Web 2.0 Wikipedia entry and suggested some updates. I had a look and deleted some links to specific companies.
By Boris Mann30 Minutes To Go
So this is what it's coming down to.
By Robert ScalesLess Then Twelve Hours To Go
With less then 12 hours to go, we're starting to feel the pressure.
By Robert ScalesEntering the 18th hour
My hands feel greasy, I'm on my third pair of socks.
By Robert ScalesGoing Strong - Second Wind
Another fine dinner and a little break watching The Family Guy. We reflected on what we believed the event would be like.
By Robert ScalesScottie and Dole in Escape From The Glue Factory
Having delivered our completed* package via FTP at 15:58
By Robert ScalesUpdate On The New Media Slam
We are entering the third hour and we have a solid plan of action.
By Robert ScalesMSN To Launch Its Own Sponsored Listing Program
Microsoft's MSN follows Google and Yahoo! into paid search, planning to sell sponsored links on its search pages.
By Robert ScalesYahoo! To Launch "Mingle" Later This Month
Yahoo! prepares Yahoo 360, a service blending blogging and social networking with its popular features.
By Robert ScalesOrganic Search Results vs Sponsored Listings
A 2005 eye-tracking study showed searchers scan Google results in an F shape. Robert's take: keep faith in organic SEO and treat pay-per-click like poker.
By Robert ScalesWikipedia Entry For Web 2.0 is almost right
I would define Web 2.0 as a web site or web app with clean URLs, standards-based code, syndication, aggregation, clean APIs and easy updating.
By Roland TanglaoSearch Engine Submission Tactics
Optimize titles, descriptions and headings for a few key phrases, keep your code W3C-compliant, and be patient: rankings take months to settle.
By Robert ScalesAll "Not so Quiet" on the Browsers Front
New stats on web browser market share: Firefox climbs to 8.45 percent as Internet Explorer drops below 90 percent.
By Robert ScalesDrupal Is Starting To Become Real Competition
A CRM News article on Six Apart's purchase of LiveJournal names Drupal as a potentially fierce competitor to Movable Type.
By Richard ErikssonAny Computer, Anywhere
Web-based applications when away from your station: getting by with Basecamp, Blogger, Drupal and the Web Developer extension.
By Mark YuasaThe Future of SEO
Are home pages on their way out? In 2005, Robert predicted visitors would arrive through any page a search engine surfaced, and sites should be designed for it.
By Robert ScalesPanel Envy: North Voice
Northern Voice was a resounding success, but with any conference you can't escape the limitations of time and space.
By Mark YuasaNorthern Voice, Sidenote: Ivar Vaspara
Conferences such as Northern Voice always have more going on than what happens behind the podium.
By Mark YuasaRaincity at Northern Voice, Community Blogging: Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes' Northern Voice talk on Community Blogging was not at all what I expected: a cerebral workout on power laws, metadata and meaning.
By Mark YuasaRaincity at Northern Voice, Podcasting: Tod Maffin
Tod Maffin of the CBC gave Northern Voice a quick overview of the hot subject of podcasting.
By Robert ScalesRaincity Studios at Northern Voice, Keynote: Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble, Chief Blogging Officer of Microsoft, gave the Northern Voice keynote: How I read 1000 Weblogs a Day.
By Mark YuasaWordwatch: Northern Voice Special Edition
The unofficial top ten "bloggy" terms bandied about at the Northern Voice blogging conference, from metadata and tagging to RSS and podcasting.
By Mark YuasaCSS: Creating Style With Standards, Part V
Columnar layout, the meat and potatoes of CSS: building a two-column page with floats instead of tables.
By Mark YuasaShane Birley and VB Creative
Shane Birley is working on a ton of Drupal-related websites, two of which are live today: Shanesworld.ca and Vicious Bunny Creative.
By Boris MannReview: Zip.ca
A six-week review of Zip.ca, the Canadian online unlimited DVD rental service: no late fees, free shipping, no due dates.
By Robert ScalesThings to look forward to in Drupal 4.6
Today officially marks the code freeze for Drupal 4.6: a quick run down of new features contributed by Bryght.
By James WalkerRob's First Music Video
Producing a first music video for Vancouver band Threat From Outer Space as a BCIT New Media Final Cut Pro project.
By Robert ScalesBook Review: Defensive Design for the Web
Defensive Design for the Web by 37 Signals is “Do’s and Don’ts” for Web User Experience.
By Mark YuasaDrupal in Education Round-Up
I've always thought that education and Drupal would go great together.
By Boris MannTips - Acrobat Pro, the Designer's Friend
One application that has been regretably overlooked is Adobe Acrobat Pro. Here are a couple tips: the Bookshelf feature and building search indexes.
By Mark YuasaEasy image insertion with HTMLArea and UploadImage plugin
Pretty much all the points in the Development Seed post are addressed by HTMLArea's UploadImage plugin for Drupal.
By Boris MannWebsite Optimizations for Better SEO
SEO starts long before submission: plan, design and develop with web standards, make your content indexable, and build it right the first time.
By Robert ScalesSEO is dead - It's about creating compelling content constantly on a Web 2.0 site
Search engine optimisation in the classic sense of link spam, referer spam and link farms is dead. Content driven SEO is what works in 2005.
By Roland TanglaoMacworld 2005
Another year, another Macworld Expo: iLife '05, iWork '05, the Mac mini and the iPod Shuffle.
By Robert ScalesA Drupal-backed website is necessary
A great customer quote after a Drupal demo: "We need this; it's necessary!" It's 2005, you need to be able to edit your own website.
By Boris MannRaincity Studios Interviews Dave Shea, Part I
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dave Shea of CSS Zen Garden and Mezzoblue fame.
By Mark YuasaiTMS Canada Revisited
The music industry's shift to digital has opened up a quandary of legal, moral, and technological issues. A look at iTunes Music Store Canada so far.
By Mark YuasaYour business deserves to be found.
Tell us about your project. We answer in English or French, and we travel anywhere in the MRC de Papineau.