New weekly suit is up on SuitUpp.com. This week its a Sean John Charcoal Pin Stripe suit. The list price on the website is $495. However, just type in the code “giveme200″ (without the quotes) on the checkout page as the discount code to get $200 off the purchase price. At $295, this suit is [...]

This is a major step for Ottawa!
I did a blog post about this on StartupOttawa.com which you can check out here: http://www.startupottawa.com/?p=284
congratulations to Luc Lalande, Dr. Tony Bailetti, and Ian Graham!
Aydin.

Tonight I am doing an informal presentation for the IEEE Ottawa section at the Urban Well @ 7pm. The title of the presentation is “Untangling the Web”… Here are some of the things I’ll be talking about:
a) What is Web2.0 and what is Web3.0?
b) What are the most popular Web Services in use today?
c) How [...]

Facebook just announced that it will be adding an inbox search. This is similar to what all other email systems currently have (i.e. gmail, hotmail, yahoo)… I know I’ve really been wanting this for a long time and so I’m glad they’re adding it. So now you can search your Facebook inbox for that message [...]

As you know, SuitUpp.com is a very new company that sells only 1 suit a week and is built off of the Shopify.com platform. This week’s suit is a Tallia Blazer and you can get $50 off by entering the code “50offnow” (without the quotes) on the checkout page… This limited-edition Blazer is available only [...]

Harley Finkelstein sent me a message informing me of an initiative that he was involved in. Harley is lead investor at Innoventure Capital. The following is the media release:
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The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), based at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, has asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate [...]

These days web startups don’t need too many resources to get started. An internet connection, a place to work, some basic capital, and a motivated team may be the beginning. I am writing this post from the University of Ottawa where I’m sitting amongst 2 other groups who are working on their own startups.
The [...]

Mike McNulty contacted me the other day to remind me of a great event that is coming up on Monday, June 16th – by Third Tuesday Ottawa.
Michael McDerment and Sault Colt from  Freshbooks will be talking about how Social Media helped spread the word about their company (which is doing quite well). It should be [...]