I met Simon Chen at the last DemoCamp in Ottawa and he mentioned his new project called Sixent.com. I just tried out the service and created my own personal profile here: http://sixent.com/aydin/Public
Here is a screenshot:
I like Sixent since it gives me LOTS of privacy options… I get to determine who sees what and what is publicly displayed… I’d love for this profile to appear when people are searching for me… I definitely recommend everyone create one of these profiles for themselves!
The Web Weekend is the first weekend being organized (May 9-11). Motivated professionals and amateurs work together in order to create a company and launch a web product in a weekend. Make sure to sign up here: http://www.ottawaw.com/
* Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm
* Location: The Velvet Room, 62 1/2 York Street, in the market
* Format for 6 demos: 2 minute introduction, 8 minute demo, 5 minutes for Q&A and discussion
chide.it is my latest startup. It is in essence a community based on criticism. The inspiration for this came from the article that valleywag wrote about me a while back. I realized that people really enjoy criticizing others. I also thought that it would be really great if there was an efficient way to tell the difference between baseless and constructive criticisms. If there was a tool to help promote constructive criticisms, it would have the potential to help improve a lot of what is out there in the real world.
The goal of chide.it is to give people a chance to become critics on topics of interest to them. These criticisms in turn will benefit the topics being criticized (assuming we do a good job at identifying the constructive criticisms). The website is still in its very early stages and will get better week by week. If you’d like to test out the site, please go ahead (signups are open)…
btw, we’re eating our own dog food… feel free to chide chide.it here
I created this video a while back about my upcoming company (http://www.chide.it)… you can check out the alpha version here: (http://alpha.chide.it)… We’ll actually launch this on the 26th and not the 15th… but, I created this video a while back and since I won’t delete, I’m posting it…
If you have plans on Monday, cancel them. What you should be doing is heading over to DemoCamp7: where Ottawa startups demonstrate the next generation of tech products and services that will make the headlines.
Here are the details:
Democamp 7 will take place on Monday, January 28th from 7pm to 9pm at the Clocktower Pub on Bank Street just south of the Queensway.
Protecode Demo - demonstration of a tool that unobtrusively detects, logs, and identifies external content during software development. This tool is used to automatically create records of Intellectual Property ownership and licensing attributes of external code (eg Open Source modules or snippets) that enter a project.
Distributed Musical Instruments - Software that will allow MIDI files to be replayed on different sound modules. This will be a demo of an entry level process leading to a system creating a Virtual Musical Sound Studio.
The Traveler IQ Challenge - Demo of a viral marketing app gone wild. In June of 2007 the TIQ was launched on Facebook to promote TravelPod, since then it’s been launched on Friendster, TravelPod, TripAdvisor and virally on 4000 other syndicated websites. The TIQ has now taken a life of its own generating millions of monthly unique visitors and driving significant traffic to TravelPod.com.
JohnnyVoIP - Initial beta of a social communications platform tool that is currently available on Facebook allowing users to forget about downloading, installing, and finding their friends - just click on a link.
Internet Business Logic - A Wiki and SOA endpoint for business rules in open vocabulary, executable English. - Flash Demo Preview
iotum - iotum’s conference calling application for Facebook.
DemoCamp, as the name successfully demonstrates, is an event where startups can present their latest and greatest products/services.
Here are the details for the next DemoCamp in Ottawa:
* Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm
* Location: Clocktower Restaurant on Bank Street, just south of the Queensway.
* Format for 6 demos: 2 minute introduction, 8 minute demo, 5 minutes for Q&A and discussion
I thought it would be appropriate to announce that I have officially resigned from my full time job working for a big software company and starting the new year I’ll be a free man to pursue my new career in entrepreneurship
What will I be doing? Well, the goal is to start 3-5 different companies. The companies will be in varying technology related spaces. I’ll be needing a team for each of these initiatives and so I am actively looking for people who love coding and creating software to join in on the fun. If you are such a person, and you live in Ottawa/Montreal, please send me an email: aydin ( @ ) bOKnow ( . ) com
