Lawrence Chan and Jeff Pennal recently spoke at the Vancouver Tech Fest on Designing Interoperable Web Services. This year’s event was the first ever, and given the great turnout I’m sure it will continue in the future. Here are Lawrence and Jeff’s slides: View more presentations from dgibbons. Thanks to Medhat for inviting us out […]
In December 2006, Hip Digital launched an online music download store, developed for the Country Music Television Canada. The online music download store allows audiences to preview, purchase and download music to their PCs and portable players. OpenRoad provided custom software development services for Hip Digital’s music download service, building on a robust Microsoft .NET […]
This upcoming Thursday (November 23rd), Wil Arndt (Mod7) and myself will be moderating a panel discussion with other local interactive design types at the Vancouver Film School on behalf of New Media BC. Entitled, “Work/Life Balance: Empty Promise or Key to Happiness?” we’re hoping to tackle some of the hot topics on where stress is […]
OpenRoad was recently awarded the contract to develop an e-service for the Ministry of Transportation. The Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement division’s Safety Certificate Application will allow for commercial vehicle operators from across BC to apply for their National Safety Code (NSC) certificate through a secure website. The NSC program is a set of national […]
Peter Wilson of the Networks section of the Vancouver Sun came to visit us last week to discuss ThoughtFarmer, our wiki-inspired intranet platform, and how our clients at Intrawest Placemaking have benefitted from the software. Darren and I had a good chat with Peter and were pleased with the article that came out today. (Vancouver […]
In September 2006, Hip Digital launched an online music download service for Nissan’s Live Versa marketing campaign. Liveversa.ca is an online community that supports an adventure reality show where contestants travel cross country competing to win a brand new Nissan Versa. Visitors to the site, who register to win a brand new Nissan Versa, automatically […]
Enterprise software products are difficult to evaluate. This is not earth-shattering news to anyone that’s ever been in the position of having to compare one content management system (CMS) package to another—or been responsible for implementing a new CRM system for their organization. Enterprise packages are difficult to evaluate due to the size of the […]
On August 6th, AOL Research released the raw search logs of over 650,000 AOL users from a three month period. The data was released ostensibly for research purposes, but the privacy breach in releasing the data has been the main story. While the data was “anonymized” by replacing usernames with numeric ids, it is still […]
