Keeping track of all the cool Toronto events happening was one of the main reason for this blog long ago. And what do you know? Other people since then have done a great job of putting together online calendars that you can use to keep track of them.
TOGeekEvents
@TOgeekevents is a twitter account that does a great job of finding all sorts of events happening in Toronto and has a public Google Calendar available that does a great job of bringing all these events in one place. Not limited to development …
Camps and unconferences are some of the funnest events to attend in Toronto, they’re free to attend and they are always filled with great crowds, great speaker, and good conversations all around. And it seems that in Toronto there are almost more unconferences than one can keep up with. But I was looking through the BarCamp wiki and I noticed the hugh difference between the number of unconferences being held between Canada and the United States.
If I may…
Canada
Feb 6th, 2009 – CSSSCampSaskatoon – by BarCampSaskatoon, Saskatoon, SK
Feb 11th, 2009 – …
via The Idée Blog.
Users can now use TinEye without having to register or signup, and performe reverse image searches online.
What is TinEye?
“TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks.” – TinEye.com FAQ
Registering might still make sense as they …
The first ever GenY Toronto Tweetup is happening tonight at Alleycatz by Eglinton and Yonge Street at 8pm.
30 people have already RSVP’d ‘Yes’ to the event so there’s sure to be a big crowd there.
What is Gen Y? There are a few descriptions
“The Generation Y are sometimes called the “Trophy Generation”, or “Trophy Kids,” a term that reflects the trend in competitive sports (as well as many other aspects of life) where “no one loses” and everyone gets a “Thanks for Participating” trophy.” – Wikipedia
But a nicer name and description …
On Tuesday, The Globe and Mail reported on Twitter’s quarterly “State of the Twittersphere” report which ranked Toronto 8th out of the top 30 locations on Twitter.
Although we already all had a pretty good idea that Toronto was a strong competitor on having the most addicted Twitter users in the world, we now have the final word from a fairly reliable source to back it up. The ranking isn’t a direct measurement of Twitter usage by city, but is instead measured by what’s written in the Location field of users’ …