SXSW thoughts from a first time attendee
March 9, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
It’s Sunday. I’ve been here in Austin since (late) Thursday night and wow this is an experience. Yesterday I didn’t catch a single panel, and I didn’t mind at all. The BlogHaus was where people were hanging out and chatting and, well the chances of learning something cool was pretty good.
Today I got up bright and early … that’s a story alone (remember that we had the time change last night so the 6:30 AM sunrise became 7:30 AM sunrise–enough said)…to go to Darren’s panel on online advertising.
Sure I’m not really the target and, yes, Darren is my boss–so I …read more
No doubt, Montreal is a hopping place for technology
February 18, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
Contrary to what folks might think down south (i.e. the US), Canada is has a very hot tech scene. There is great stuff going on across the country, which btw keeps me busy, but I have to say of the tech cities here in Canada Vancouver and Montreal are the hot spots as far as I’m concerned.
The Montreal Gazette ran an article called Silicon Island on Saturday talking about the growing tech and start up culture on the island of Montreal. Heri of MTW, Joey at Global Nerdy, and Rob at Techvibes all picked up on it rather quickly and …read more
My first Intruders.tv Canada video is up!
February 17, 2008 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Business
In addition to what I do here at b5media, I’m also one of the Intruders.tv Canada. While at DEMO I recorded several interviews and they are all ready to go up now. The first of the 10 is xtranormal!
Interview with DEMOgod winners xtranormal
The remainder of the videos are going to go up over the rest of the week. Just keep an eye there, I’m not going to post every video here, just my favourites.




