created on Wed, 2006-10-11 11:24

I Found The Perfect Place To Talk Hockey, Beer & e-Commerce

Last week I spent a bit of my Friday afternoon with Dave Olson and Jason Billingsley at Elastic Path, an e-commerce software company based here in Vancouver.

Raincity is currently building Elastic Path's new Drupal site, set to launch in a few weeks, so I thought it'd be a good idea to check out their digs, say hello to the team and have a little software chat in their schwanky-ish entertainment room.... and of course we spoke a little hockey-talk a tad as well, and why the hell not? 'Tis the season.

created on Fri, 2006-04-07 13:33 It's been a busy day as per the usual here at Raincity Studios. We're working our magic on the oodles of projects that have been rolling our way as of late, but, in the spirit of the good ol' times, we've attempted to bring back the Lunch n' Learn sessions that proved to be a grand success of years gone by, and took a little time out to have a team lunch meeting to geek out and discuss social softwares, web 2.0, and how these tools can be better utilized to promote our studio, our clients, and the work we do.

Kris Krug from bryght paid us a visit and conducted the session. He's one of those web 2.0 gurus and brought us all up to speed on the various on-line communities and how to make them work to our advantage. Using the personal news aggregator bloglines is a helpful tool to organize and monitor your company and clients, or any other fun stuff you'd like to keep an eye on. Such tools as del.icio.us, technorati, and upcoming.org are useful as a watchdog as well, but also enables you to link your work, findings, new and interesting information, whatever you feel worth talking about and sharing, back to you, your business, and your whole network of folks you've met through these social softwares. Get your fingers on the pulse of all that is out there to grab on to!

Will Pate stopped by for a welcomed visit and threw in his valuable 2 cents worth on the issues at hand, as did our good pal Dave Olson.

We also took the time to document the meeting and Mark posted a few pics to his flickr account.

For a more comprehensive list of suggested social softwares out there, check out Kris' compilation.

And delicious this!

created on Thu, 2005-12-01 01:49

The final release of Firefox 1.5 was released yesterday for Linux, Mac and Windows users. The much anticipated lates version of the popular open source browser can be download on the Mozilla website.

Some of the new features available on the latest update includes:

• automatic updates (which means users no longer need to download a complete new version of the browser to upgrade)
• faster browser navigation
• drag and drop reordering for browser tabs
• improvements to pop-up blocking and better support for Mac OS X

Here's a comprehensive list of new features of Firefox 1.5