What Will You Be For Halloween?
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »If you’re like Marie Eve Bergeron-Tourangeau from Canada, you’ve decided to become a Facebook profile page for Halloween. Which is better, I guess, than trying to dress up like a Google OpenSocial, since the only image really associated with that so far is this horny elmer’s glue thing.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest [...]
Donate to DonorsChoose.org and Enter to Win a Free Ad on TechCrunch
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »There is one more day left for the DonorsChoose.org Blogger Challenge. And we’ve only raised $5,348 so far. This is for a good cause
Ontario Changes Environment Ministers
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Environment | No Comments »We won’t have Laurel Broten to kick around any more as Ontario Minister of the Environment; She of the Garage Mahal and driveway full of SUV’s has been dumped in favour of John Gerretsen, an OWM who in his last gig as Minister of Urban Affairs brought us the greenbelt, reform of the Planning Act to help control sprawl, started to rein in the undemocratic and awful Ontario Municipal Board, and generally followed his orders from the Premier without making a fool of himself.
David Reevely of the Ottawa Citizen
More Tickets for Boston-Bound TechCrunch MeetUp 11
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »We are pleased to release our second batch of 250 tickets for the November 16 Boston MeetUp co-hosted with IDG Ventures Boston. All ticket proceeds go to DonorsChoose.org.
There also are a few spots left for start-ups to demo their products on site and what our CEO Heather Harde likes to call “creative sponsorship opportunities”. [...]
More Facebook Music Rumors
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »Is Facebook finally going to take on MySpace as a place for bands and music fans to hang out? We’ve heard various Facebook Music rumors before. The latest one comes from CO-ED Magazine.com (so you know it’s got to be true!).
According to CO-ED’s executive editor Stephen Gebhardt, who says he [...]
Strange Waters: Woof Water For Dogs.
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Environment | No Comments »We have seen it before with K9 water; now we find that what every dog wants is Woof Water.
“Woof water is requested by name by more dogs than any other brand.” Cindy of Avery Beverages notes “A lot of our customers that buy the bottled water, the large bottles, the towns that have heavily chlorinated water, the dogs just won’t drink it, so they’re giving the dogs spring water and that was part of the genesis of this.”
What can we say other than we are happy that…
When Will Ask.com
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »After sprucing up Ask.com earlier last summer, parent company IAC began spending $100 million this year on marketing to raise awareness of the Ask brand. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been seeing a lot of Ask.com ads on TV lately. (And I pretty much only watch TiVo, yet they are so ubiquitous [...]
Green Halloween: Blood Car
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Environment | No Comments »Here’s something a little kooky
Working Assets Launches CREDO Mobile: “Greenest Mobile Phone Company in the U.S.”
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Environment | No Comments »Working Assets, a San Francisco-based pioneering company whose products/services we’re covered severaltimes in the past, is getting set to re-launch its mobile phone venture. Christened CREDO Mobile, the newly refashioned mobile division will seek to further empower its activist, progressive customer base by providing it with more ways to assume direct…
Oil Companies and Alberta Government Go After Little Old Lady
October 31st, 2007 -- Posted in Environment | No Comments »85 Year old Liz Moore took a tour of Canada’s oil sands.