The Toronto Star has two stories on their front page today about devel­opment in Toronto and the surrounding area worth noting. The West Don Lands devel­opment is a community being built over derelict indus­trial buildings east of downtown. And Vaughan’s proposed corporate centre and downtown is an idea that is seeing the light of day […]

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A focus group study by the Federal government has highlighted the common belief amongst urban Canadians that Toronto’s subway is the most likely target for terror in this country. And the inventor of pointing out the obvious rests comfortably in his or her grave. “For many, Toronto’s size, inter­na­tional profile and economic and financial impor­tance to […]

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Google’s Analyst Day in February 2006 presented some Power­Point slides touching on some future plans for storage: With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it acces­sible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc). We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, […]

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Om Malik, writer at Business 2.0 and power blogger, has posted his thoughts on the Nortel announcement from a couple days ago that they would have to restate their earnings again. His reaction is one of incredulity that Nortel, “a big NYSE company,” could actually not be able to get their accounting straightened out after […]

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A post by Jeffrey Veen talks about the typical corporate IT department and how it influ­ences (negatively) external and internet web projects. The thrust of the post is that a centralized corporate IT department consists primarily of “technol­o­gists [more] accus­tomed to controlling resources and managing services” than user-centered design and the user experience. I can […]

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