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New Phone Number

July 30, 2009

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Wesley Clover was kind enough to say I could keep my number so I had planned on porting it over to a VoIP provider for at least the time I was in London but thats looking like it’ll be a nightmare. So my new number is 613-454-5286 Feel free to call me whenever, it’ll follow… [Read more…]

Nortel’s death might be bad for Canada but it means little to Ottawa.

July 30, 2009

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“So, Matt after your MBA, are you coming back to Ottawa?” This is a question I’ve been getting hit with a lot. And it’s one I’m struggling to answer. After the recent demise of Ottawa’s ‘Flagship’ company certainly we’ve got a problem but I think it goes back several decades and Nortel’s recent death is… [Read more…]

Twitter. My 5 min/Coffee analysis.

July 28, 2009

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Lets be honest about twitter – nobody actually uses twitter, everyone uses something else to use twitter. So twitter as a front end service has failed. Its attempt to be a destination website will fail as no one goes there, its brilliance is that no one needs to. before Seesmic and Tweetdeck got going no… [Read more…]

Need new shoes?

July 27, 2009

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Toms shoes is an interesting idea. Buy a pair of shoes and a second pair of shoes will be given to a child in need. We need this for eyeglasses.

Back to school shopping.

July 23, 2009

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Back to school shopping can be alot of fun… I’ve bought a new laptop and phone – along with a bunch of Textbooks which aren’t as much fun, as they’re annoyingly expensive. (Seriously, we need to work on something disruptive in this segment – they don’t need to be this expensive in this day and age.)… [Read more…]

Cool, I’m popular in India and China now.

July 22, 2009

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So since I mentioned on the blog that I’m heading to (UWO) Ivey to grab my MBA this fall I’ve gotten alot of emails from people. Alot of them from friends, but oddly from quite a number from people I don’t know who are in India and China.  When I say quite a number I… [Read more…]