At the height of the Cold War, I was a 15-year-old farm boy and I was half convinced that we were heading for a scenario straight out of “The Day After” or, at best, a “Red Dawn”. The Russians were kicking our ass at hockey and, according to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, our farm was in
CoWorking’s essential space in the Startup Ecology
February 10, 2012 – 12:20 pm
I vaguely remember an evening 2007 in a bar on the plateau where Michael Boyle and I met with Patrick Tanguay and Daniel Mireault. We looked at floor plans and discussed synergy and had what I remember as potentially too many beers. A few months later the floor plans were now a reality, StationC was
Nexalogy Headed to Silicon Valley in 2012 Thanks to CIX
December 19, 2011 – 12:46 pm
We’ve had a pretty active couple of weeks, the highlight of which has to be attending CIX on Dec 1 at MaRS. Nexalogy was selected to participate as one of the top twenty innovative startups at CIX. There were great presentations of startups to a room packed with VCs. In spite of a a technical
The Oncoming Social Data Analysis Revolution
November 1, 2011 – 2:04 pm
Last Wednesday I was thrilled to be able to speak at the Infopresse conference at L’Excentris. Apart from being included amongst some of our brightest and best, I was able to present for the first time my talk called “The Oncoming Social Data Analysis Revolution”. View the full presentation here. I’m grateful to have met
Startup Festival and the Best of the Valley
July 20, 2011 – 4:24 pm
I can’t believe only a week ago, I was putting the last touches on the microsite we put together for the demo table at the International Startup Fest. I was looking forwarding to seeing my friends as well as meeting new ones from around the world. From the utterly unique venue of the Alexandra Pier,
Physics, society and social media marketing
May 31, 2011 – 9:02 am
I never thought I would actually say that I missed reading scientific papers. It was one of my least favorite tasks as an astrophysicist, right after grant writing, and paper editing. But since the social media data revolution I can’t help but gleam at the luscious titles flying by in my RSS feed from the Physics and
Strata on Twitter
February 10, 2011 – 9:42 am
I spent part of last week in California at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference. Strata’s tagline is, “making data work” and it’s all about big data and what to do with it. One of the sources of “big data” is the never-ending stream of material emanating from the social web. People are taking many approaches to analyzing
Sentiment mining: new term, new field. A new web?
August 24, 2009 – 2:29 pm
I read and excellent article in the NYT technology section today and came across a term that hits home: sentiment mining. A long time ago we posted about “We feel fine” and since then, it seems that sentiment mining has gone from an interesting art project to a money-making technology. In the article, the founders
Social Network Analysis: from disillusionment to enlightenment
August 12, 2009 – 2:21 pm
While reading Claude Malaison’s blog, I came across Gartner‘s latest Hype Cycle graph. While Claude’s analysis mainly concentrated on the peak position of cloud computing and the eminent decline of the microblogging (sorry for those of you who can’t read in French) hype, my eye was drawn to the more mature technologies. I was encouraged
Newspapers and democracy and Iran
June 17, 2009 – 2:15 pm
John Ibbitson wrote an interesting article today titled ‘How does U.S. democracy survive without its newspapers? ‘. Funny really, because most people in my social network today are posting and tweeting about almost the very opposite question: how blogs are an essential tool for democracy in Iran. Well, not that funny, because after painting a
