Think of a Web developer's control over the Internet as the same sort of control a player has over their virtual landscape in Sim City. The world is literally in the palm of
A Web service that helps small businesses organize contests based around graphic design needs has launched a professional tool set targeted at creative agencies and marketing departments, it announced this week. 99designs has
Jeff Howe is a journalist and a professor at Northeastern University. Howe coined the term crowdsourcing, authoring a book by that title. Here, he talks about how crowdsourcing on the Internet created a new
Australian firm DesignCrowd has launched its crowdsourcing graphic design site for businesses in Canada with a dot-ca address, it announced yesterday.DesignCrowd.ca is online now and marked as being in beta stage. The new
A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.Thanks to ongoing advances in multi-seat Linux
Are postal codes copyrighted material? Does Canada Post own the copyright to this data? If you are a marketer or a business that collects, curates and uses postal codes, the recent copyright infringement
When Montreal residents Shoshana and her husband Dez visited the New York City area in 2008 and lost a tiny 512MB SD card from their Canon PowerShot camera, they were heartbroken. Some 140
Five dollars for a button, $20 for a t-shirt and $1,000 for a trip to Chicago to meet the company's game developers – quite unconventional but this was how Robomodo, a Chicago-based game
Andrew Peek firmly believes that ideas are best developed when people connect and have time to bounce their thoughts off one another. Unfortunately for teams working on projects, much of the workplace tools
Although companies have been urged to adopt "Web 2.0" and social technologies for years now, the truth is that relatively few have done so internally in any serious way -- and use inside
By Shane Schick Startups know what it means to be hungry. They tend to be launched by people who work extremely hard for what are sometimes small dividends, at least initially. They have
Creating a Facebook page has become a standard practice among small businesses as a way to communicate and interact with customers and professional contacts. As a way to explore your customers' wants and
OK, so let's say you're interested in social trends. A great place to look at what's hot is Twitter and, yep, there's a service that will graph the popularity of any keyword on Twitter: It's
Whoever said that user generated content (UGC) is free doesn't know what they're talking about, according to Kim Pittaway, Toronto-based journalist, media consultant and online content expert.Perhaps the biggest mistake of many online
