March 2011
13 posts
What The Network Hub looked like in 2006…
Let’s turn back the clock a few years… in 2006 my partners and I were all in university. John and I were both attending SFU and Jay was attending UBC. School wasn’t the only thing on our mind, we were also juggling clients from our web company – building databases and designing network infrastructure between classes was normal since we’ve been doing it since high school. Between...
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So you got high Klout score… so what
With the emergence of social media “experts” popping everywhere and some are aggressively flaunting their Klout scores to intimidate their potential clients and friends, I feel the need to do a breakdown of how this works. Here is a little bit of a preamble, I appreciate Klout and I have advised some of my friends to use Klout as one of MANY tools out there to analyze how they are doing on...
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Tool Tuesdays: What time is the best time to...
One of the big questions right now in social media is what time is the best time to tweet? There are a few ideas out there. Guy Kawasaki mentioned in his blog post, “Looking for Mr. Goodtweet: How to Pick Up Followers on Twitter” Tip 9: Repeat your tweets. Try this experiment: take your most interesting tweets (as measured by how many people retweet them, perhaps) and post them again three...
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A Colourful Discussion on Being Green
Last week, a diverse group of community leaders from the South Asian, Filipino and Chinese communities gathered at city hall for a roundtable discussion with the goal of making Vancouver the Greenest City in the world by 2020. The discussion was moderated by two media professionals from the local Filipino and South Asian media – Marieton Pacheco of Balitang Vancouver Filipino TV news and...
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Events in Vancouver: Fashion’s Night OUT
It’s cold, it’s rainy and it feels better to be hiding under a blanket at home than to be outside BUT there is an event worth getting OUT for! Fashion’s Night OUT is presented by The Bay at White Space in V Lounge on March 8. It indeed it will be a night to remember with cocktail reception, silent auction, live DJ and gift bags with a fashion show presented by The Bay. The wonderful thing...
Things to do in Vancouver: When you are snowed in…
So it’s snowpocalypse in Vancouver, you stored away your winter gears and is weary of motorists who freak out when we get a cm of snow so what to do? Here are some suggestions: 1. Get a blanket and curl up with that book you’ve been meaning to read but haven’t gotten around to it 2. Curl up in front of the TV, turn to TVtropolis or channel 48 and watch reruns of old sitcoms – instead of a blast...
Friend Friday: The Future of Social Gaming
I first met the cofounders of A Thinking Ape – Kenshi, Eric and Wilkins when they first moved into The Network Hub, literally within weeks after they moved Vancouver from Silicon Valley. Unfortunately their explosive growth meant their time with us was short, they quickly outgrew our space within months of being here. Their first game “Kingdoms at War” is consistently in the Top 10 grossing...
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Events in Vancouver: Lean Startup Conference
As some of you know, my cofounders and I all come from a technical background. We use lean startup processes in our development work and we also apply it to The Network Hub. Lean startup is powered by three drivers – use of platforms enabled by open source and free software, application of agile development, customer-centric rapid iteration. A lot of people think it is for high tech only, I...
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Places to eat in Vancouver: Campagnolo
Can I please gush about this place? Let me set the stage, it is a Sunday night and as usual there is always people working at the office. By the time 8′clock came around, we realized well we are pretty hungry from working hard all day. We were split between Chambar and Bao Bei but after a bit of negotiation, we decided on Bao Bei. John (yes the REAL John Chow), Jaeny and Kevin (a friend from...
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Tool Tuesdays: How not to forget ever again… well...
Have you ever read an email or suddenly remember someone’s name but you don’t know how you know them? You search your emails but if you are like me, sometimes your emails provide more confusions than clarity, especially if your email thread is a continuation of something discussed in person. I host a monthly networking event for Vancouver Entrepreneurs with between 100-160 people attending each...
Strange Findings: Breakup Notifier
During my late night reading, I came across the Breakup Notifier – a Facebook app that allows you to follow the friends you’re interested in who are in a relationship and an email will be sent to your email to notify you whenever there is a relationship update. I’m guessing the big sell here is if you interesting someone, you can follow their relationship updates in hope when they update their...
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Things to do in Vancouver: Vancouver Flea Market
One of my favorite things to do on a nice sunny day is to grab a nice Chai Latte and stroll from Commercial Drive to Main Street. Somehow I usually end up at Vancouver Flea Market, I love this place because it is one of the few places you can find amazing vintage jewelery and little knick knacks. One of my goals is to reduce consumptions and reduce waste. I try my best to find knick knacks and...
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The NOW Revolution Event
Unwinding the cable Jay Baer hits the stage and utters his first words of the night “This is so very Mick Jagger”. Instantly he has my attention. Let me take a step back and give you some background information. I attended The NOW Revolution event put on by Jason Baker, Teri Conrad from Red Barn Group and Kemp Edmonds, hosting Mr. Jay Baer as well as a local panel at Caprice, February 15th. I...