tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107391992011-11-22T10:42:50.854-08:00The Internet amazes me everyday. I'm glad to be a part of it.Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-59706732487525800282008-08-20T14:59:00.001-07:002008-08-20T15:07:42.389-07:00

I just came across this video of Jack Dorsey explaining what Twitter is. This is the best I've seen yet. Some of my Twitter updates are displayed on this blog, or you can follow me at www.twitter.com/darrellheapsIf you're a status junkie on Facebook then you will love Twitter (along with the millions already using it). Enjoy. Jack Dorsey Presents Twitter from biz stone on Vimeo.

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I just finished a post for the Q4 Blog that outlines a signicant change in the corporate disclosure industry. Rather than rehashing everything here, I'll just point you over to the Q4 Blog for the update:SEC Guidance enables corporate websites and blogs to be fair disclosureCouple of other blog posts that make a good read:SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FDSEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as

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Monitor110 is a company that I’ve been tracking for some time. In short, their model was to pull in millions of web sources and apply sentiment analysis on the data to help institutional investors track information across the internet – a next generation Bloomberg if you will.Last week Monitor110 was shut down when they were unable to sell the business or raise another round of capital. Roger

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Found out this morning that my company Q4 Web Systems has been selected by the Branham Group and Backbone magazine as one of the Branham300 Top 25 Up and Comers.We've been growing the business for just over 2 years now and it's great to be recognized by the industry. Thanks to everyone who's helped us along the way!

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I'm really not a huge Microsoft fan but I just had to post this. Yahoo! has been struggling over the last couple of years trying to restore itself to the early glory days of the web. There is little chance that this offer would have accepted 6 months ago. But today Yahoo! is in trouble and about to be gobbled up by the MFST shark.http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html?.v=1In a letter

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Last couple of days have been a roller coaster for the markets. The sub prime mess has taken its toll. Last couple of days have been looking good with the major exchanges trading up - but today they ended down.And then Microsoft became the beaming light of tech by releasing record earnings of 6B on 16B in reveneue. With all the talk of slow down its so good to see MSFT banging it out of the

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-29683984145033360052007-06-21T10:54:00.001-07:002007-06-21T10:54:52.129-07:00

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve gone to a couple of conferences, one in Orlando and the other in Whistler. These have been the first conference/trade shows for Q4 where we have exhibited and sponsored aspects of the events. Both of them have gone quite well and we’ve been able to expand our pipeline of sales prospects considerably.However I have to say that I’m so tired (and we’ve got one

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We started using WebEx http://www.webex.com/ in January of this year. It's a web conferencing system that allows you to do online meetings and conference calls. We thought we were safe by buying the leader in the market. Well we were certainly wrong about that. Some of our experience:The WebEx software only works about 2/3rds of the time. Typical for users on the other end to have problems

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Bit of news from Reuters this morning:http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2127967220070521?src=052107_0745_FEATURES_mna_todayNEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. rose nearly 5 percent in pre-market trading on Monday after a report it is in talks with Google Inc. for an alliance that could help them compete better against Microsoft Corp..According to a report in the Wall Street

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So I feel a little like a gushing school boy when I say I love Salesforce.com, but it’s true. At Q4 Web Systems we use Salesforce to manage all of our sales and marketing efforts and all customer interactions.Having all of our sales people using it along with customer support gives our management a detailed insight into all aspects of the customer process. I have a complete view into the entire

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So busy with Q4 these days and trying to post on Q4 Blog and I've been neglecting my personal blog. Hope this clip helps redeem me :)This is by far the best explanation and most inspring video that I've seen about Web 2.0. Very exciting stuff.

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A while back I posted about working 28hrs a day to get the new company off the ground. I also said something like once we closed our first round of funding that I'd be back to posting. Well...back in Sept we closed the round and we haven't stopped running since. We've been really fortunate to add a couple of really smart people and we're starting to push on sales and marketing. So, in short I'm

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Can't believe I'm writing this, but it is snowing in Toronto right now. Welcome Winter.

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In case you haven't heard...the deal between Youtube and Google was announced yesterday. I love YouTube and have always been impressed with Google (how can you not be!) Here are the details of the release. http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.htmlWhat is truly amazing about YouTube is their history.Feb 2005 - Company FoundedNov 2005 - $3.5M round of funding from Sequoia

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Chris Vickerson, our CTO at Q4 sent me this link last night. It's an impressive list of web 2.0 apps. If you've been wondering about where the web is headed and what it means for business be sure to check out this list. Office 2.0 Database

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Although the SEC's chairmen Christopher COX has made many statement regarding XBRL and it's benefits, investing $54 Million into EDGAR to transform it into an XBRL based system goes a really long way to proving they are serious about it.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE2006-158Agency Invests $54 Million in Three Contracts Toward Transformation of EDGAR DatabaseWashington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2006 — U.S.

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Salesforce.com is the worlds most successful web-based customer relationship management (CRM) software. With over 25000 customers world wide Salesforce.com is leading the software as a service revolution. With this latest announcement Salesforce appears to be closing the gap on web based software and traditional software. The complete article can be found here.

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Looks like Imax (IMX.TO) is currently the subject of an informal inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its revenue-accounting practices, yesterday became the target of a potential $200-million Canadian class-action lawsuit that could become the first test of Ontario's new Bill 198 law aimed at making it much easier for shareholders to sue companies and their executives.Here

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Keeping on the Web 2.0 topic, here is a watch list from Seth Godin that tracks 937 sites. If you're looking to burn a couple of days this would be a great place to start. Here's the link: http://www.alexaholic.com/sethgodin

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I came across this list the other day, thought it was pretty interesting. There are now 350 web applications listed. They range from online document collaboration to photo sharing to online calendars. Take a look and get your web 2.0 a moving. Here is the link to the main site. http://www.philb.com/iwantto.htm

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http://www.google.com/gmm/index.htmlGoogle has enhanced its Google Maps mobile application by adding traffic information and the ability to save routes. Go to http://www.google.com/gmm on your handheld to download it. I tried and it's pretty cool.

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The last couple of months have been very busy for me. Getting Q4 off the ground and closing our funding has taken a huge amount of time and dedication. Things are going smoothly and we're on track to close our first round of funding over the next couple weeks. The point of this post however, is to pass along some advice I received awhile back.About 2 months ago I asked a trusted advisor how to

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The TSX just recently launched a new site. I must say this is a HUGE improvement over their last site. www.tsx.com

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Informative interview on the value that SOX is bringing to companies. I find this interesting because lately a number of smaller companies have been complaining about the increased cost associated to being compliant. This article really opens up the true value of compliance and why this is a good thing for all companies.The Real Value in Sarbanes-Oxley APRIL 10, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Fear can be

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Catherine over at Weave sent a link to the Internet Archive today.The Wayback Machine is a web archive that goes back to 1996.It’s slow and not perfect but fun to look back on early sites. Plug in your URL and go back in time.

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Have you seen the new Honda Civic UK commercial?You should.http://84.40.3.164/Be sure to click through at the end of the movie. The site is pretty impressive.

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After my last post I went to www.netvibes.com and checked out the new 1GB web storage module. What is soo cool about this is that this module was made in partnership with box.net.http://blog.netvibes.com/?2006/03/09/44-netvibes-welcome-a-free-1-giga-web-harddrive-for-every-netvibes-users

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www.netvibes.com is an ajax based rss newsreader/portal/news site. If you haven't seen it, be sure to check it out. If you like MyYahoo (or things like that) you will love Netvibes. I'm using it now, but it's taking time to move all my feeds over. (grrr)They just closed their seed funding from some high-profile investors - like Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape. More here: http://

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Yes, yes it's true. This is my first post in about 4 months. Been so busy setting up the new company that finding any time to post has been impossible. But I am going to slowly start posting again.Also, at the advice of a good friend I'm going to consolidate my blogs into one to make things a little more managable for me. Meaning I'll be including riding related and other general stuff into this

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1132366996507036752005-11-18T18:14:00.000-08:002005-11-18T18:23:16.540-08:00

If it wasn't already obvious, it is now. RSS is changing the face of the web....RSS and Google Base: Google Feeds Off The Web

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Google is releasing products at an impressive pace. Today's is Google Base. I can't help but be impressed.From Google's PRGoogle Base is an extension of Google’s existing content collection efforts such as our traditional web crawl system, as well as Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video – all which enable content owners to easily make their information searchable via Google. Google Base

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I just read this great article on Google, I've been impressed in the past by what they are doing. This article opened my eyes a little bit more to the real impact that Google is having on the world. Enjoy. What Lurks in Its Soul?

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1129601775459127782005-10-17T19:14:00.000-07:002005-10-17T19:16:15.470-07:00

Colleen and I just recently moved, and I've finally got the Internet up and running again. Great to be back online at home. Simply can't get to reading and blogging from work. More posts to come...

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1127961160463521762005-09-28T19:29:00.000-07:002005-09-28T19:32:40.473-07:00

A great post by Paul Allen( managing partner of Infobase Ventures).Why Search Engine Optimization is Six Times More Important than Paid SearchA friend alerted me to a great article at searchenginewatch.com. The article explains how humans view search results (there is a natural "F" pattern, starting at the top of a page, going down along the left side scanning for keywords, and then going to the

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It seems like it's been forever since there was an acrade game that was actually worth the money. Well this puppy would certainly pull a great deal of coin out of my pocket.A virtual Gundam robot arcade game is demonstrated by its developer team staff Hisaharu Tago during a strategy briefing by the president-elect of Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., the soon-to-be joint entertainment company set up by

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A new photo sharing service is coming online soon. I know, with Flickr being so popular do we really need another site out there? Well looks like Flickr is a couple steps behind this new service called Slide, sounds pretty interesting:From Business 2.0 Blog: Instead of just being a Website, Slide is an application you download to your computer. It indexes all of your photos, and then lets you

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I just came across this and thought it was interesting: www.blinkx.tvFrom the site:blinkx.tv allows you to search the web for video and audio clips. Unlike other search providers, blinkx.tv not only lets you search using standard keyword and Boolean queries but you can also use conceptual search. This type of search is provided by blinkx only, and allows you to enter normal text for which

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It’s great to see Yahoo and Google battle it out on who can build and release more cool stuff into the market. At http://next.yahoo.com/ we see a bunch of new tools related to blogging, podcasts and social computing. While over at http://labs.google.com/ they have all things search related, but with one very cool addition – the next step from Google maps - yes, Google Earth. http://

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I was reading Alex Barnett's blog about an article that he read on CNet about the "RSS Effect".Bill Flitter, writes:RSS, like other time-shift technologies such as TiVo, will change the way traditional media consumers interact with their content. When people get an RSS feed, they need not go through standard Web site navigation patterns that we are accustomed to tracking. They look at just what

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Recently, just across the lake in Rochester, NY Kodak laid-off 10,000 employees as part of their overall strategy to lay-off up to 25,000 in the near future. The obvious reason being the huge impact that digital photography has had on the company.As I’m sure you know Kodak has been around for a long time and built their business in traditional photography business. Although somewhat slow to make

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So…been quite a while since my last post on this blog. If you’re interested in what I’ve been up to outside of work you can always see on http://pain-is-weakness.blogspot.com/ .Anyway, I came across an interview with Nathan Kaiser, CEO of Webshots in March of 2004. Shortly after this interview Webshots was acquired by CNET for $70M, but that’s not everything….From www.paidcontent.com This is the

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Been hearing some interesting things about Media RSS lately. Yahoo is talking more and more about RSS and using Yahoo services to create, distribute etc. They also support the new Media RSS format (similar to podcasting). As I was reading through these articles I came across a use case written in 2001 (yes 4 years ago) that is probably the easiest to understand explanation of what Media RSS is

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Just came across this article about the user generated content movement on business 2.0:Let's face it: People are fascinated with themselves. That's why when it comes to content-driven websites -- and what websites aren't in that category? -- there is nothing more viral or compelling than content generated by users. Whether it's travel journals, group calendars, event listings, product reviews,

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Things are sure moving fast these days, lot's on the go. I came across this article today and thought it was post worthly.The Internet Has Just Begun to Make an ImpactConsider the top five global Internet market cap leaders: Google, Yahoo, eBay, Yahoo Japan and Amazon, which combined for a $2 billion market value in pre-2000 IPO. That soared to $178 billion in market value at the Nasdaq's peak

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I just saw this post on Alex Barnett's Blog. Some interesting developments:Internetnews.com:"MSN Messenger 7.0 will also introduce the concept of shared search on the IM client. Using integrated MSN Search capability, users will be able to search and share results of search queries while having an IM conversation. According to Holden, MSN did a lot of research into how people use PC-to-PC calls

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As with everything I find on the Net, by the time I come across it I feel like I've missed so much. As is the case with "The Long Tail". Last year a guy named Chris Anderson wrote an article in Wired Magazine about a concept known as "The Long Tail", this concept hit home with content owners everywhere. Chris now maintains a blog on The Long Tail which is a great source for up to date info. I'll

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I was just reading through the business2.com wireless report. It’s a series of articles on what’s happening with mobile virtual networks like Virgin Mobile and a whole slew of new competitors – P Diddy being the most interesting. There are also articles on mobile gaming and mobile music services...So far, Nokia has been the most aggressive pursuer of digital music. Last year the company shipped

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1110942654714401492005-03-15T19:09:00.000-08:002005-03-15T19:11:49.143-08:00

Thanks to Adam from Plaxo for adding a comment to my posting about phones. Seems they are offering WAP access as part of a Beta program. I went to the site, but because it’s beta and there is a “chance” I could lose info I chickened out. Adam also mentioned there is a lot of stuff coming down the pike – I’m very interested to see what they have in store.I would love to see all my Plaxo

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In my previous post I talked about my trip to Best Buy on the weekend. For the first time I saw Microsoft Media Center in action. It was on a 52inch flat DLP, with surround sound, the computer was an HP Digital Entertainment Center. I was pretty impressed. It was great to have one central access to your computer, along with dvds, pictures and recorded/live tv. The resolution must have been 1280

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1109557645438774462005-02-27T18:14:00.000-08:002005-02-27T18:30:22.966-08:00

Yesterday afternoon I went to Best Buy, there was a lot of cool stuff there. I like visiting it every so often to drool over the latest gear. Cell phones were disappointing though. I was hoping to see the Motorola Razor, but they didn’t have one. Guess you can only get it from Rogers here in Canada.I’ve heard that you can sync your outlook via USB on a Razor. I think this is because it runs on

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I mentioned in my previous posts about some thoughts I’ve been having around information becoming more important than the destination and where the Internet is headed in general. Well, here it is – let me know what you think.So where is the Internet headed? Over the last year or so we’ve seen a number of things change. With the coming years things will (obviously) continue to change and evolve.

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Been thinking about how Google (and other search engines) function and the importance they place on links and anchor tags. Does this strategy really provide more relevant content to me? It did initially, but now with so many SEO professionals out there the relevancy of search results seems to be going to those companies that know how to manipulate the results the best.To illustrate how results

Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-1108314330851527022005-02-13T08:57:00.000-08:002005-02-13T17:00:55.080-08:00

I was just reading story about Google Hacking. It's crazy the amount of information that is available online these days. Recently I've been thinking alot about RSS (great post on Ventureblog about RSS) and how it's changing the nature of the Internet, (I'll post more about this thought soon) this article helped me see that the thoughts I've been having could be quite true. Here's a quote from the

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My name is Darrell Heaps. I am 32 years old. I run a company called Weave Communications. Been doing this for just over 3 years now. Previous to this company I led a start-up web development company called NKaos Interactive Media. It was part of the Internet bubble and all things that it represented (except getting rich). It was an amazing experience that went from 3 of us using school computers

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