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StartupCamp Waterloo<\/a> was last night. I was surprised at the crowd, a number of people came up from Guelph and Toronto, including Mr Toronto DemoCamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First up was Ali Asaria<\/a> (of well.ca<\/a>), whose honest presentation about his own abilities and knowledge was fantastic. I love when people are real<\/em>, rather than some fake presentable version of themselves. Ali’s stories of dealing with VCs<\/acronym> were great.<\/p>\n

This Camp was well-sponsored, which was great. Nothing beats free food. Except maybe the awesome door prize I won, thanks to Tech Capital Partners<\/a>. I’ve been hearing good things about them (especially their ability to make the right investment choices), and I’m not just saying that because of the prize.<\/p>\n

Avery<\/a> showed us all how easy a Windows app can make installation. I think it made a fool of every single other piece of Windows software. One-click, that was it.<\/p>\n

Simon Clark<\/a> presented on his neighbourhood website (for his and hopefully other neighbourhoods), which was nicely done, and I’m very interested in that sort of thing. Does everyone on a street really need a huge ladder? (hint: the answer is “no”)<\/em>. He also did well by pointing out that it’s not just the technology but needs to be lead by an enthusiastic community member.<\/p>\n

I presented to talk about Zimride<\/a>. Simon<\/a> was managing the presentations and asked everyone a few things, including what we hope to get out of presenting. My answer of “to turn everyone in the audience into evangelists for Zimride” got a lot of laughs, although that wasn’t really the intention ;-). I was presenting using Jesse<\/a>’s computer, so there was a mildly embarrassing minute when I went to Facebook and realized Jesse was already logged in. Hopefully I didn’t show anything too sensitive from his or my own \ud83d\ude09 .<\/p>\n

The Facebook hype (as we all know, of course) is completely insane. Two people immediately came up to me afterwards asking if I could build them a Facebook application. I’m not going to do that, but I think I can find them someone who will. Thats what’s so great about these events, I definitely made some good connections, and may have convinced one or two people to attend the Web Clinic events I run.<\/p>\n

Robert Barlow-Busch (of UX Group<\/a>) proposed some sort of UX Critique Camp, which I and many others seemed to think was a really good idea, so hopefully that will happen at some point.<\/p>\n

Monish<\/a> (link to his startup since he has no site yet) seems to have decided to start a blog listing Waterloo tech events, which is a good idea. There’s no real centralized place for that now, although there are a variety of obstacles.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I finally got around to adding a new feature to Quizify, touching the code for the first time in nine or so months. Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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