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October 31st, 2007,
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Conference Madness

Conference season seems to be starting for me. Yesterday I bought my ticket for my third SXSW. It’s spring break for geeks with loads of parties, sun and, of course, great panels to attend. If you’re a web developer or designer and have never been, you should come down at least once. There were 15-16 Quebecers last year and we had a blast.

Saturday is BarCamp Montréal 3, loads of people have registered and are speaking, don’t miss it if you’re in town.

Next Wednesday I’ll be in NY for FOWD, the schedule is way too packed with too short sessions but it should be interesting anyway and I haven’t been in NY in a few years.

The same day is FacebookCamp Montréal which obviously I’ll be missing but should be good.

November 14th Sylvain (he’s actually involved in all 3 camps, crazy frog!) is organizing WebCamp Montréal #0 (look for it on Facebook) as a side event to Webcom, I plan to attend that too and there should be some good discussions there.

Finally, bit of a long shot. The good people of Vancouver are holding Web Directions North January 28th to February 2nd, according to all reports last year’s event was awesome. Although people also agree that it’s worth the money, the $795 ticket price is pretty steep, add to that airfare and the fact I’ll be in Austin a month later and you’ll understand why chances of finding me there are pretty slim. I do think it’s worth going though so if some of my readers are interested, it might be a good idea to bunch together, they give a free ticket to anyone who can refer 4 people who register so we could split the free ticket 5 ways instead. Maybe a $636 ticket would convince me ;).

October 30th, 2007,
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A journey to the center of your mind

Fan.tas.tic talk by Vilayanur Ramachandran at the Ted conference. Must see.

You can find the video on the Ted site, they have a great player.

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October 30th, 2007,
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Some beautiful, crazy settings for houses. Not sure I’d live in any of those remote spots but awesome sights.

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October 29th, 2007,
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Turns out Facebook employees can (and do) check out anyone’s profile. Not only that, but they also see which profiles a user has viewed—a major privacy violation.—Facebook employees know what profiles you look at

October 28th, 2007,
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BarCamp Montréal 3

Quoi : BarCampMontréal3
Où : Société des Arts Technologiques, 1195 blvd St. Laurent, Montréal.
Quand : Samedi, 3 novembre 2007, 9h-18h

J’y serai. I’ll be there

October 26th, 2007,
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Who’s Your Field’s Awesomest?

The folks at 37 Signals are hiring a new Rails guy. DHH coded Rails when building Basecamp (you gotta go back to your roots guys, this page is bloody aweful, looks like a cheap flyer), they are a huge influence for independent developers and small, simple, well designed web apps. Jason Fried is somewhat of a guru in certain webdev circles. All of that to say, for a Rails developer, is working for 37 Signals like playing for the Canadiens back in the day? Or the Celtics or Yankees ?

Second question, in your field, who’s the most awesomest company you can work for (or maybe the one person to work with)? For myself it used to be Adaptive Path, now it might be Clearleft or Happy Cog but I’m not as much of a standardista is I used to be. I’ll have to think about that. Anyway, who is it in your field?

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October 25th, 2007,
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Great Walt Mossberg OP ED, Free My Phone about the racket the cell phone provider are subjecting us to. They are starting to get it from all sides, hopefully at some point things will change.

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October 25th, 2007,
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GameLayers, a San Francisco-based game developer focused on “passively-multiplayer” online games, has raised $500,000 in new funding led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.—Passively-Multiplayer Online Game Maker GameLayers Raises $500,000

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October 24th, 2007,
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Have a look at this beautiful hillside modern house.

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October 24th, 2007,
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Sales of iPods, Macs, iPhones and gross margins are all up at Apple in its fourth quarter, which means it’s had a stellar year.—Apple revenue goes boom! in fourth quarter

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