Who You Calling A Jesse?: Comments

@Kevin – I see that...

Jesse Rodgers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:01:00 GMT

@Kevin – I see that as a way to focus on commercializing a part or all of someone’s research but enabling an academic to focus on it, have a top-notch team, and not have to worry about teaching while at the same time having it as a revenue generation model. Likely a big blog post or conversation over beer ;)

SLA’s for all too… between departments, students, academics, etc.

@Kyle – planning a day in Guelph soon, should involve beer on campus

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Ha. With service level agreements,...

Kevin Prentiss — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:50 GMT

Ha. With service level agreements, do you mean for the faculty? Becuase I love that idea.

How would you go about requiring a new product or service every two years?

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Bold post, and in many...

Kyle Mackie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:04 GMT

Bold post, and in many ways right on target. We should talk more, you and I.

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Hey Jesse,I work with Capital...

Hiten — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:38:25 GMT

Hey Jesse,

I work with Capital C, a Toronto-based marketing agency that is interested in a partnership with VeloCity. I tried to contact Sean a week ago, but haven’t heard back yet. I imagine the team is pretty busy with the application process and might have missed my mail.

I haven’t been able to find your email address, so please get in touch with me and I’ll forward you the email I sent to velocity@uwaterloo.ca

Cheers,
Hiten

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Always an interesting read here....

Home Theater Installation — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:50:22 GMT

Always an interesting read here. I know have your site bookmarked and look forward in returning. keep up the interesting posts!

Posted to: Education not important? Come'on 37Signals

Quite an accurate overview. The...

Nick Matthews — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:10:57 GMT

Quite an accurate overview. The kid always wins, which makes the decision easy to make. Dealing with the consequences is a little more involved.
I’m still lucky. My little one still takes afternoon naps, which presents some time to catch up on the triaged tasks around the house, such as clean up the mess made by the little tornado (so long as these tasks don’t make too much noise).

After all, a day spent with the little one, even with sickness and crankiness, is more worthwhile than one spent at the office (some might note that the crankiness factor exists at the office some days too).

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I slammed it at first,...

Kyle Mackie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:36:24 GMT

I slammed it at first, but the more I think about it, and the more I try to figure out what type of person would use the iPad, the more I realize that that type probably equals me.

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@Jbone Satire: Kindle is a...

George — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:35:45 GMT

@Jbone Satire: Kindle is a reading device for people who read books (and is overkill for that, to be honest – readers can be had for $250 or so). The iPad will make your eyes extremely tired if you try reading a whole book on it because the screen is backlit. Modern eBook readers with e-ink displays are perfect for prolonged reading but the iPad is as far from perfect as you can get – it’s also way too heavy to hold for a long time (over 700g compared to 170g for an eBook reader).

I don’t think it will catch on in schools yet either. Partly because of the aforementioned issue with backlit screens and kids will be using it all day long, partly because the on-screen keyboard probably isn’t going to fly for students, partly because they’ll get stolen, broken, drowned, lost, etc.

@Jesse: “I sat in the coffee shop with morning with email, a web browser, and tweet deck open for 3 hrs—didn’t need my laptop for that.” You will only be able to do one of those things at any one time using the iPad. You can’t have Spottify or Skype running in the background while you browse the web or use Twitter. Not having multitasking is a fundamental design flaw in the OS. If you don’t think it’ll be a problem now, I promise you’ll change your mind not long after getting one. Personally, I already have this issue when using my iPhone in a coffee shop.

Not having a camera is also a massive issue for people who consume. You can’t have a video chat with someone when sitting on the couch.

You’re also going to need adapters for anything you want to plug into it and you’re limited to only plugging one thing in at any one time.

Adding 3G incurs a $130 extra charge, with extra cash going to monthly plans. As you mentioned, if you can’t tether it to your iPhone it’s going to get very expensive.

I like the idea of the iPad. I really do. I’ve got some app ideas I had planned for a Microsoft Surface type device which I might be able to implement on the iPad. All ‘consumption’ type apps. However, there are too many things missing for me personally to warrant buying one right now, and there’s no point in developing apps for a device if the device doesn’t catch on. Too early to tell.

Add a camera, a built-in USB port or two, a multi-tasking OS which doesn’t require you to get apps from the AppStore (this is a huge problem – Apple dictates what you can and cannot install on your device), tethering to the iPhone (or any other bluetooth phone which can act as a modem) and I’d probably snap one up, but only if the keyboard is decent.

Look at how pants the first iPhone was. It had features missing which virtually every other phone on the market had but it showed massive promise. ‘This is how a phone should work – come back in a year or two and we’ll have the other features in’. The iPad will probably go the same way.

George.

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Regarding Post above (anti-fanboyism) Yeah,...

Jbone Satire — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:28:05 GMT

Regarding Post above (anti-fanboyism) Yeah, buy a kindle that does less, for 10 bucks less. What can you do on a kindle? oh, ah,, read books…. What can you do on a iPad? read books, check email, calendar, contacts (all syncing in the cloud if you have mobile me.) beautiful picutures, video, music, and access to over a 140k apps, and some amazing ones coming down the pipe. I think the ant-fanboyism is the one with the lower IQ. At least have a good argument why I should spend $10 less for kindle DX, battery time is all you got!

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- it IS expensive, want...

anti-fanboyism — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:29:04 GMT

- it IS expensive, want an ebook? buy a Kindle
- Kindle, Nook have much longer battery time
- Apple always good at milking money by adding ‘innovative’ features year by year, version by version. From fan boys with lower IQ.
- http://tinyurl.com/ydw3w2e

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As a consumer device, it’s...

Simon Clark — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:22:35 GMT

As a consumer device, it’s nice, and will probably do well. What excites me the most about it, though, is the potential applications in schools, hospitals, and industries that are poorly served by the current technology. Maybe not a game changer, but there’s gonna be some cool stuff coming down the pipe.

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bang on....

d. swart — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:24:51 GMT

bang on.

Posted to: All events have their audience but...

It is a bit over...

Jesse Rodgers — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:19:48 GMT

It is a bit over produced ;)

Posted to: My Ignite Waterloo presentation: unconferences

The camera work makes me...

jamEs — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:06:16 GMT

The camera work makes me woozy.

Posted to: My Ignite Waterloo presentation: unconferences

Great summary thoughts Jesse.Makes me...

Jason Hanley — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:35:38 GMT

Great summary thoughts Jesse.

Makes me disappointed to be out of the country at the moment!

Posted to: Entrepreneur week 2009 reflection: talent, money, opportunity

I said the talent is...

Jesse Rodgers — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:53:33 GMT

I said the talent is here just that sentence is confusing if you miss the period ;) A lot of discussion with folks was about how the talent isn’t here and how it goes to the US. I think we loose some talent to that but for a number of different reasons… but the talent is here to at least start something.

On the second point, those things alone do not create the community. The peer groups do along with the belief you can succeed. An entrepreneur will figure out how to succeed without money, speeches, and mentors if they have a peer group that is there to support them. I think anyway.

Posted to: Entrepreneur week 2009 reflection: talent, money, opportunity

Good overview – gives some...

Joseph Fung — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:41:19 GMT

Good overview – gives some interesting food for though.

You mention that you don’t think the top talent is here – if not, what should we do to compensate? Or, do we even need to compensate at all?

You also mentioned “money, speaches and mentors do not create a thriving entrepreneurial community”…what does? Do you think we have that element or not?

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I just published a reference...

Ben Hunt (web designer) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:40:09 GMT

I just published a reference for semantic use of all HTML tags. May be relevant: http://webdesignfromscratch.com/html-css/list-of-html-tags-with-semantic-usage.php

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Totally agree. Money isn’t really...

Stephen Paul Weber — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:16:06 GMT

Totally agree. Money isn’t really the core deal when I look at co-op employers: it’s all about if they’re going to be having me write interesting code, and if that code is going out to production soon. There’s nothing like that feeling that people are actually using stuff you made!

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We (Institute for Quantum Computing)...

Colin Bell — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:28:38 GMT

We (Institute for Quantum Computing) live at http://www.iqc.ca (not ipc)!

I agree we are all in our own little bubbles but there are times when a little more structure and mediated relationships would be nice.

UW has these great nodes of innovation but the edges to connect them do not exist (yet).

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