B. Mann Consulting - Vancouver blogger, entrepreneur, and technologistI currently live in Vancouver, BC, and this is my professional/personal space online. You can find out more on the About page.More Vancouver events, thoughts on one calendar for TechCouver- April 30, 2008 First up, I'm going to do the call out of upcoming Vancouver events: Wednesday, April 30th (tonight!) is WordPress Camp, put on by the folks at Tazzu - I've got Dad night every other Wednesday so I won't be making it this time. Maybe someone should set up a Vancouver WordPress Users Group and do this regularly VanWUG! May 9th and 10th is DrupalCamp Vancouver - I'll be talking about install profiles and likely a "getting started with Drupal" talk where I go through all the core modules; more on.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/280947833/more-vancouver-events-thoughts... Rogers is bringing the iPhone to Canada (CTV Newsnet edition)- April 29, 2008 Looks like I'll be on CTV Newsnet at 12:15pm today, talking about Rogers bringing the iPhone to Canada. Of course, the funny thing here is that there are many many people in Canada who already have the iPhone, in its "unlocked" edition. John Biehler's iPhone category is my source for all the latest in unlocking and cool applications. The rumour seems to think that part of the delay and secrecy is because of the possibility that we might get the "new" version of the iPhone, with 3G (which is a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/280194748/rogers-bringing-iphone-canada-... Microsoft Social Networking Patent Application on Peer-to-Patent- April 24, 2008 Via INSNA and Mark Surman (who is doing seriously cool things with the Shuttleworth Foundation around Open Everything), I was copied on a request to look at prior art around a Microsoft patent application: Microsoft has a patent application posted on the Peer-to-Patent site for Recommending contacts in a social network. We are soliciting your help and that of the communities you know in finding prior art that will help the Patent Office to examine this application and determine if it...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/277233727/microsoft-social-networking-pa... LoadMyTracks now supports the Globalsat DG-100 on Mac OS X- April 23, 2008 After the jump, the email I received from LoadMyTracks -- saying that the Globalsat DG-100 is now supported on Mac OS X with their application. Here are my previous posts about the DG-100. Yeah, I know, I&39;ve been really bad about using it. I got busy right when I received it. Now it&39;s time to re-invest some time into using it consistently. I want my Flickr map to have more photos on it (I recently uploaded my 9000th photo). Here&39;s the email from ClueTrust LoadMyTracks: After Long...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/275908125/loadmytracks-now-supports-glob... Sun Labs Open House 2008, first post acquisition MySQL release- April 16, 2008 I just got contacted by ComputerWorld Canada, asking for my reaction to the new MySQL release: I came across your blog and was wondering if you wanted to share thoughts on Sun Microsystems announcement that it will release the next version of MySQL (v. 5.1) in Q2 of this year Do you see the new version as helping further drive adoption of the open source database, and help promote open source technology in general Well, this is good timing. TrevorO and I went down to the Sun Labs Open House...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/271525532/sun-labs-open-house-2008-first... Strutta has launched- April 15, 2008 Last night I ended up staying at the Strutta offices until the wee hours of the morning, cheering the team on as they worked towards their launch today. I worked with Jordan Behan to do a fun spoof of Michael Arrington (and yes, Strutta got a TechCrunch posting) -- I did the Fox news guy voice over. The posting from Jordan is, of course, meant to kick off a competition for the best Michael Arrington impression. Personally, I think someone should get out the sock puppets... :P We actually...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bmannconsulting/~3/270927126/strutta-has-launched |