tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107391992024-09-05T00:24:51.008-07:00The Internet amazes me everyday. I'm glad to be a part of it.Darrell Heapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15065667862073881509noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10739199.post-59706732487525800282008-08-20T14:59:00.001-07:002008-08-20T15:07:42.389-07:00

I just came across this video of Jack Dorsey explaining what Twitter is. This is the best I've seen yet. Some of my Twitter updates are displayed on this blog, or you can follow me at www.twitter.com/darrellheapsIf you're a status junkie on Facebook then you will love Twitter (along with the millions already using it). Enjoy. Jack Dorsey Presents Twitter from biz stone on Vimeo.

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I just finished a post for the Q4 Blog that outlines a signicant change in the corporate disclosure industry. Rather than rehashing everything here, I'll just point you over to the Q4 Blog for the update:SEC Guidance enables corporate websites and blogs to be fair disclosureCouple of other blog posts that make a good read:SEC OKs websites and blogs for Reg. FDSEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as

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Monitor110 is a company that I’ve been tracking for some time. In short, their model was to pull in millions of web sources and apply sentiment analysis on the data to help institutional investors track information across the internet – a next generation Bloomberg if you will.Last week Monitor110 was shut down when they were unable to sell the business or raise another round of capital. Roger

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Found out this morning that my company Q4 Web Systems has been selected by the Branham Group and Backbone magazine as one of the Branham300 Top 25 Up and Comers.We've been growing the business for just over 2 years now and it's great to be recognized by the industry. Thanks to everyone who's helped us along the way!

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I'm really not a huge Microsoft fan but I just had to post this. Yahoo! has been struggling over the last couple of years trying to restore itself to the early glory days of the web. There is little chance that this offer would have accepted 6 months ago. But today Yahoo! is in trouble and about to be gobbled up by the MFST shark.http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html?.v=1In a letter

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Last couple of days have been a roller coaster for the markets. The sub prime mess has taken its toll. Last couple of days have been looking good with the major exchanges trading up - but today they ended down.And then Microsoft became the beaming light of tech by releasing record earnings of 6B on 16B in reveneue. With all the talk of slow down its so good to see MSFT banging it out of the

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve gone to a couple of conferences, one in Orlando and the other in Whistler. These have been the first conference/trade shows for Q4 where we have exhibited and sponsored aspects of the events. Both of them have gone quite well and we’ve been able to expand our pipeline of sales prospects considerably.However I have to say that I’m so tired (and we’ve got one

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We started using WebEx http://www.webex.com/ in January of this year. It's a web conferencing system that allows you to do online meetings and conference calls. We thought we were safe by buying the leader in the market. Well we were certainly wrong about that. Some of our experience:The WebEx software only works about 2/3rds of the time. Typical for users on the other end to have problems

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Bit of news from Reuters this morning:http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN2127967220070521?src=052107_0745_FEATURES_mna_todayNEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Salesforce.com Inc. rose nearly 5 percent in pre-market trading on Monday after a report it is in talks with Google Inc. for an alliance that could help them compete better against Microsoft Corp..According to a report in the Wall Street

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So I feel a little like a gushing school boy when I say I love Salesforce.com, but it’s true. At Q4 Web Systems we use Salesforce to manage all of our sales and marketing efforts and all customer interactions.Having all of our sales people using it along with customer support gives our management a detailed insight into all aspects of the customer process. I have a complete view into the entire

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So busy with Q4 these days and trying to post on Q4 Blog and I've been neglecting my personal blog. Hope this clip helps redeem me :)This is by far the best explanation and most inspring video that I've seen about Web 2.0. Very exciting stuff.

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A while back I posted about working 28hrs a day to get the new company off the ground. I also said something like once we closed our first round of funding that I'd be back to posting. Well...back in Sept we closed the round and we haven't stopped running since. We've been really fortunate to add a couple of really smart people and we're starting to push on sales and marketing. So, in short I'm

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Can't believe I'm writing this, but it is snowing in Toronto right now. Welcome Winter.

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In case you haven't heard...the deal between Youtube and Google was announced yesterday. I love YouTube and have always been impressed with Google (how can you not be!) Here are the details of the release. http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/google_youtube.htmlWhat is truly amazing about YouTube is their history.Feb 2005 - Company FoundedNov 2005 - $3.5M round of funding from Sequoia

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Chris Vickerson, our CTO at Q4 sent me this link last night. It's an impressive list of web 2.0 apps. If you've been wondering about where the web is headed and what it means for business be sure to check out this list. Office 2.0 Database

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Although the SEC's chairmen Christopher COX has made many statement regarding XBRL and it's benefits, investing $54 Million into EDGAR to transform it into an XBRL based system goes a really long way to proving they are serious about it.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE2006-158Agency Invests $54 Million in Three Contracts Toward Transformation of EDGAR DatabaseWashington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2006 — U.S.

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Salesforce.com is the worlds most successful web-based customer relationship management (CRM) software. With over 25000 customers world wide Salesforce.com is leading the software as a service revolution. With this latest announcement Salesforce appears to be closing the gap on web based software and traditional software. The complete article can be found here.

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Looks like Imax (IMX.TO) is currently the subject of an informal inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its revenue-accounting practices, yesterday became the target of a potential $200-million Canadian class-action lawsuit that could become the first test of Ontario's new Bill 198 law aimed at making it much easier for shareholders to sue companies and their executives.Here

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Keeping on the Web 2.0 topic, here is a watch list from Seth Godin that tracks 937 sites. If you're looking to burn a couple of days this would be a great place to start. Here's the link: http://www.alexaholic.com/sethgodin

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I came across this list the other day, thought it was pretty interesting. There are now 350 web applications listed. They range from online document collaboration to photo sharing to online calendars. Take a look and get your web 2.0 a moving. Here is the link to the main site. http://www.philb.com/iwantto.htm

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http://www.google.com/gmm/index.htmlGoogle has enhanced its Google Maps mobile application by adding traffic information and the ability to save routes. Go to http://www.google.com/gmm on your handheld to download it. I tried and it's pretty cool.

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The last couple of months have been very busy for me. Getting Q4 off the ground and closing our funding has taken a huge amount of time and dedication. Things are going smoothly and we're on track to close our first round of funding over the next couple weeks. The point of this post however, is to pass along some advice I received awhile back.About 2 months ago I asked a trusted advisor how to

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The TSX just recently launched a new site. I must say this is a HUGE improvement over their last site. www.tsx.com

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Informative interview on the value that SOX is bringing to companies. I find this interesting because lately a number of smaller companies have been complaining about the increased cost associated to being compliant. This article really opens up the true value of compliance and why this is a good thing for all companies.The Real Value in Sarbanes-Oxley APRIL 10, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Fear can be

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Catherine over at Weave sent a link to the Internet Archive today.The Wayback Machine is a web archive that goes back to 1996.It’s slow and not perfect but fun to look back on early sites. Plug in your URL and go back in time.

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