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Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds on the Internet
Did you know that more than one new blog is started every second? The stats don’t lie:
Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds on the Internet
Directed Study – CSU Usability Testing
For my directed study project this year, I’m conducting online usability testing and surveying to get feedback on the Capilano Students’ Union website, and using the results to generate a revised information architecture and visual design strategy for the organization. I have had the pleasure of working with the CSU over the past several months as a student representative to Senate and as a member of their Board of Directors, and I’m looking forward to giving back by leading a branding and website redevelopment project with them over the next several months.
Research firm, Gartner, reveals its list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012
Most are things that you’ve heard about before, but I had not yet heard of “In-Memory Computing”. This stuff is the future. The future is now.
Vancouver – Meet Kinjoe
Kinjoe social network founder and CEO Emir Aboulhosn says the program connects users with other people with shared interests in their neighbourhoods.
Vancouver startup Kinjoe is mashing together Facebook with your backyard fence and helping people with similar interests connect in their neighbourhoods.
Moving beyond the hot localization driver in social media ventures, Kinjoe is hyper-local, connecting like-minded people in a comfortable meeting radius. Based on your profile, connections usually begin with chats to clarify interests and progress to setting up meetings or activities. › Continue reading
The Evolving Vancouver Digital Agency Landscape
Vancouver Sun reporter Scott Simpson summarizes the growing opportunities, and business management challenges occurring in many notable digital agency offices – Engine Digital, ReThink, Dare, Station X, TWBA, Publicis – in Vancouver.
Delivery across an expanding number of mobile digital devices are giving technical teams a voice in the creative choir, while agency owners grapple with right sizing their teams as marketing budgets are brought in line with available business realities. Dean Elissat, vice-president of client engagement with Engine Digital, details the range of campaigns being driven by how users are expecting seamless and engaging experiences across a broad range of mobile digital devices. Read more.
Mail Strike Adds Customers to VersaPay B2B Payment System
Canada’s 24 billion annual digital payments by consumers are conducted through a patchwork system of online, key fobs, automatic billing and, now, cellphones. Vancouver’s VersaPay is active in the consumer market but has also developed a cloud-based payment system for B2B transactions — an $859 billion Canadian market – that is still largely conducted through the exchange of paper invoices and cheques. The recent mail strike brought a 400% jump in business customers, based on strong viral growth of suppliers experiencing the benefits of VersaPay customers secure and efficient digital payment system, and a reduction in their accounts receivables. Two of our Interactive Design graduates – Greg Bell (Senior Software Engineer) and Matt Vague (User Experience & Software Engineer) - are key employees at VersaPay office in Vancouver. Read more details in the linked Vancouver Sun Article.
Celebrating Maverickism with MIT
Focused on addressing a growing deficit of ambition, MIT‘s system of learning is based on research and hands-on experimentation, championing meritocracy and industry. Their motto ”Mens et Manus” translates to “mind and hand”, and their students are not so much taught, as “engaged and inspired”. Balancing “theory and practice” and recognizing their combination makes them both stronger, their students are encouraged to “think and do” boldly in the “unknown and unexplored” areas of their studies. Inspiring visions from an educational institution thought leader in a recent Guardian article celebrating 150 years of maverick genius.
With a tight focus on interactive “design and development”we welcome the “mavericks of interaction” looking to boldly “think and do” engaging inspirational work and communication on “web and mobile” platforms.
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- Gaming Extinction Explored and Explained
It’s a battle of the gaming boneyard with the console giants being nipped at by the more nimble social gaming start-ups. A meteor strike just might occur when industry heavyweights Ayogo, DES Games, Compass Engine, dimeRocker, and A Thinking Ape take up the challenge of explaining how the technology, culture and business of gaming is evolving at breakneck speeds. Think gaming extinction – explored and explained. If you are a game designer, game programmer or a business mind looking to harness a piece of a breakout industry make sure you attend. There will even be some pale”ale”eontology included with your ticket!
It’s all taking place Thursday May 12th at 7 pm
Mozilla Vancouver
200- 163 West Hastings st
Buzz 200
Vancouver, British Columbia v6b 1h5
Canada
Chris Wenger – Word
The last 20 months have been filled with some success and some failures, all valuable lessons learned for the future ahead. My time in the Interactive Design Program was an awesome experience, and through all the various subjects and topics I learned during the program, the friends and relationships that were formed was the greatest part.
I am now left with perspective of where I am now and where I want to be, and how I am going to get there. My Internship at a social gaming company has exposed me to some interesting career paths, and I am eager to begin my journey. I feel blessed to be pursuing a career that is line with my dreams!
I wish everyone in INTE the best of luck.
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