I never knew

Business Week is covering Coworking spaces, nothing new information wise but a nice slideshow to get a quick feel for what those places look like. Funnily, 30 minutes ago I was having a drink with Bill who owns Workspace and KK who took the picture. And 4 hours ago I was sitting at the second chair from the left next to the window.

Je parlerai pas souvent de politique ici mais tabarnak tu peut-tu faire plus récupération de tendance que modifier ton logo pour faire vert ?? Sacrament. Premier pas pour avoir l’air plus vert en campagne? Passez une motion pour rendre illégales les &*%#?&$@ de #*%?&*% de pancartes que vous crissez partout.































(via Laurent)

Good quick coverage of the Future of Web Apps conference at Read/Write Web. It seems to be more oriented to business than it used to be which is too bad but at the same time the most interesting part seems to have been Ben Holmes’ talk about the VC Process. I especially like the list of reasons not to get VC money.

1. You will probably miss out on the option of any small exit opportunity, which in a lot of cases could be very lucrative personally;

















2. You will be bound to a minimum of 3+ years of hard work building your idea up;

1. You will lose the opportunity to run a lifestyle business.

Nice little Canada AM piece about Workspace in Vancouver.

Cuba’s communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft (MSFT)— by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.—Cuba embraces open-source software