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- Smibs launches into Public Beta!
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Tuesday, October 21 at 5:00am
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On Sunday, June 14th I attended an event commissioned by the Arts Council on behalf of the city of Edmonton where local musicians were invited to compose songs about sustainability. That’s Edmonton for You! was held at Louise McKinney Park just south of the Shaw Conference Centre...
I recently came across an incredible set of articles about keyword maximization on Copyblogger.com...
artsScene Edmonton - Part 3 By Peter UrbanView in HDDownload 400p VersionVisit Peter Urban's ExposureRoom Videos Page Further SmibsTV coverage highlights young entrepreneurs and community leaders who were in attendance at the artsScene event launch...
artsScene Edmonton - Part 2 By Peter Urban View in HDDownload 400p VersionVisit Peter Urban's ExposureRoom Videos Page Paul Steier of Smibs talks to Poet Laureate and performing artist Cadence Weapon (Roland Pemberton) at the artsScene launch event...
artScene Edmonton - Part 1 By Peter UrbanView in HDDownload 400p VersionVisit Peter Urban's ExposureRoom Videos Page Peter Urban talks to the Chair, Ken Bautista and Co-Chair, Michael Brechtel of artsScene, they discuss how artsScene came to Edmonton and why the arts is such an important element...
One of my favorite marketing blogs, Neuromarketing, recently ran a post about the positive side of daydreaming...
One of my favorite marketing blogs, Neuromarketing, recently ran a post about the positive side of daydreaming...
We are gearing up to exit beta mode! This morning we are very pleased to unveil our brand new interface designed to enhance the Grow Smart experience. Unfamiliar with our products? Once you've signed up, you will be given immediate and free access to everything Smibs has to offer...
We are gearing up to exit beta mode! This morning we are very pleased to unveil our brand new interface designed to enhance the Grow Smart experience. Unfamiliar with our products? Once you’ve signed up, you will be given immediate and free access to everything Smibs has to offer...
ArtsScene chair Ken Bautista and co-chair Michael Brechtel speak to attendees of the artsScene launch event As a young creative professional I find myself continually looking for opportunities to grow both professionally and personally...
In my last post for “Smibs on Code” I discussed the tradeoffs between pre-filtering and post-filtering user data in a web application. I also mentioned that Rails is focused on the post-filter approach, while I prefer pre-filtering...
Despite what is often portrayed in the media, entrepreneurs are seldom “lone wolves”. This point was made obvious when I attended theTEC Edmonton’s Venture Prize Award Luncheon, it takes a community to support and inspire innovation in an entrepreneur...
Loktah - portfolios, boxes, cases Loktah produces beautiful, simple and natural looking products based on waxed organic paper. I thought I would diverge this week from my usual tech solutions to something more tangible for all of you artists, photographers and crafty people...
There is a major security concern when it comes to displaying text provided by a user. Ruby on Rails does a good job of keeping your MySQL code sanitized, but web browsers are still a source of concern. It is VERY easy for a hacker to write HTML or JavaScript into a text field...
This is the first post in a 5 part series of articles I will be sharing discussing how audio and video blogging are changing the landscape of the Internet and how you can use these tools in business and in your personal life. How we share information online is transforming...
Ben Sauters teaches us that “you are the only person to decide how far you go and what you are capable off.” After watching this video I believe h
Audacity Audacity is a free open-source audio recorder and editor, available for both Mac and PC users. It is a handy and useful application and so far it has worked seamlessly...
Everyone is complaining about the new Facebook interface. Whether its weakness is aesthetic or functional, the resounding consensus among annoyed Facebookers is that it sucks...
Demo #5: Content Mover - Peter Urban (smibs.com) and Paul Bellows (yellowpencil.com) For more information on DemoCamp, go to their website at www.democampedmonton.com
Demo #4 Clinitrust.com - Mark Matichuck For more information on DemoCamp, go to their website at www.democampedmonton.com
This video employs animated origami to tell the corporate story of asics , the sports shoe manufacturer, from it’s founders viewpoint...
I want to talk about social networking. Yes, I know, everyone is talking about social networking—my interest is a little late in the game...
This is going to be a short fun post. It’s about a JavaScript library that I wrote a month ago. We wanted to see how easy it would be to develop multipurpose JavaScript windows to run inside the browser. The goal was to create a simple window model that could handle all the windowing functions...
It’s no big secret that large organizations are slow to change. Especially with their technology. But I am constantly amazed by the number of people who are still being forced to use Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) by their work environments. IE6 was initially released in 2001. That’s 8 year ago...
Robert Scoble recently gave a talk at the ‘mix & mingle’ with a San Francisco Bay area IT and Software Executive meetup group. Robert gave a quick insight into his personal history, how he became one of the most popular bloggers of our time and he let us know what’s currently on his mind...
No, I am not suggesting you turn into a dictator and boss people around. Warning, ruby specific software developer content ahead. Back in the old days before my time, computers were programmed with Procedural Languages. Measure 1 cup of pancake mix into a bowl, stir in 1 cup milk, mix...
iShowU HD Pro iShowU is a very cool capturing application (realtime screencasting), that captures online/offline media that can be imported directly into Pro Apps such as Final Cut (you can even choose pro level settings). The image quality of the captures is quite amazing...
Ok, last week I spoke about the power of comments on online blogging communities. But what about the dark side of blogging, every bloggers worst fear… (Please cue the ominous music.) The negative comment! You know what I’m talking about. What a nightmare...
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