February 2010
15 posts
Winnipeg Free Press - February 25/10
Google Buzz
DESPITE an already crowded marketplace, last week Google unveiled its new social-networking platform, which borrows elements from Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. This isn’t the first time the search giant has become involved with social networking. A few years back Google purchased Orkut, but it never really caught on in North America. Despite this, Orkut has 100 million...
Uptown Magazine - February 25/10
Red Bull’s Thre3 Style Heading into its fourth year, Red Bull’s annual Thre3 Style event has quickly become the most prominent DJ competition in the province, since the DMC elimination battle hasn’t happened for the past couple of years. Eight DJs will have 15 minutes to play at least three different genres and impress the judges (and crowd) with their skills behind the decks...
Greg Macpherson - First Class
Mr. Invitation:...
Uptown Magazine - February 18/10
Chatroulette.com This past December, the newest Internet phenomenon was quietly born. Embracing the anything-goes Wild West days of the early Internet, ChatRoulette allows users with a web cam to instantly connect face-to-face with random strangers around the world. “Our most popular new online tools - Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Digg - were designed to help us tame the web’s...
Winnipeg Free Press - February 18/10
John Mayer Interview
IF there’s one celebrity who understands and embraces the new paparazzi-driven/TMZ/Perez Hiltonized world of online tabloids, viral YouTube videos, ubiquitous cellphone cameras and ego-driven bloggers looking for the next big Tiger Woods-style scandal, it’s Grammy-winning singer/songwriter John Mayer.
A regular in the tabloids and in the spotlight, whether for...
Vancouver 2010
Art Czars - Japandroids
Uptown Magazine - February 11/10
Tyson Bodnarchuk Although Winnipeg has a supportive, active and vibrant arts scene, not everyone sticks around. One successful Winnipeg expat has recently launched his long-awaited website. Although his work has been online in different forms (blogs, Flickr, Etsy), Tyson Bodnarchuk, who now lives in Montreal, has finally pulled everything together into one spot. Along with running the two-level...
Winnipeg Free Press - February 11/10
Foursquare Launches
AFTER waiting a couple of months longer than most major Canadian cities, Winnipeg has finally seen the much-anticipated launch of fledgling location-based friend finder/city guide/mobile game Foursquare.
While the first version of Foursquare was strategically rolled out in select cities, the mobile phone-based social-networking site can now be used anywhere you can get a...
“You can reduce your carbon footprint by illegally downloading movies instead of...”
– via: Sustainabletips. Tips for living a more eco-friendly existence.
Winnipeg Free Press - February 4/10
Jerzify Yourself Jersey Shore Name Generator AFTER a couple of weeks of speculation, threats and uncertainty, the cast (minus Ronnie, who apparently slept in) of MTV’s breakout show Jersey Shore recently announced on the Today Show that they will be back for a second season. After tense negotiations with the network where money seemed to be the sticking point, all seven stuck together...
Uptown Magazine - February 4/10
Before
After - Chick-sat-A (Fancy Chick-fil-A)
Fancy Fast Food Sick of getting your dinner handed to you through a drive-thru window but love fast food more than life itself? Fancy Fast Food shows you how to transform everyday items from your favourite restaurants into gourmet meals. From Honey Apple Glazed Christmas Holiday Ham(-burger), made from Burker King’s Quad Stackers, to...
