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Geek of the Week: 500px

Geek of the Week: 500px

By Stephen Hui | August 30, 2011
Users of 500px are encouraged to upload only their best shots.
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Geek of the Week: 2011 Northern Voice blogging and social media conference

Geek of the Week: 2011 Northern Voice blogging and social media conference

By Stephen Hui | March 7, 2011
If your day’s not complete without blogging and tweeting, you may want to mark May 13 and 14 on your calendar.
Geek of the Week: Na Tkwi Sní­chim and Sacred Places podcasts on SquamishLanguage.com

Geek of the Week: Na Tkwi Sní­chim and Sacred Places podcasts on SquamishLanguage.com

By Stephen Hui | January 9, 2011
Dustin Rivers, a 21-year-old Skwxwú7mesh-Kwakwaka’wakw activist who lives in North Vancouver, is readying two audio podcasts to launch this month in hopes of revitalizing the language.
Geek of the Week: Halqâeméylem FirstVoices app for iPhone

Geek of the Week: Halq’eméylem FirstVoices app for iPhone

By Stephen Hui | December 27, 2010
The Halq’eméylem FirstVoices app contains hundreds of words and phrases, along with helpful audio recordings and images.
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Geek of the Week: Glitch

Geek of the Week: Glitch

By Stephen Hui | December 12, 2010
Vancouver resident Stewart Butterfield helped launch the photo-sharing site Flickr. Now, he’s got a new project, a massively multiplayer online game called Glitch.
Geek of the Week: Farm Rescue

Geek of the Week: Farm Rescue

By Stephen Hui | September 2, 2010
In this Facebook game created by animal-rights advocate Mark Middleton, you rescue chickens from factory farms, help them regain their health, and send them to good homes.
Geek of the Week: OpenDataBC

Geek of the Week: OpenDataBC

By Stephen Hui | July 27, 2010
With the launch of the Apps for Climate Action contest and the Climate Change Data Catalogue, open-data enthusiasts have reason to be optimistic that the B.C. government will eventually launch a full-scale data portal.
Geek of the Week: Implode! XL on the iPad

Geek of the Week: Implode! XL on the iPad

By Stephen Hui | June 8, 2010
What’s more fun than blowing things up? Blowing things up on the iPad.

Geek of the Week: Northern Voice blogging and social media conference

By Stephen Hui | March 11, 2010
It’s the hottest date on Vancouver’s blogging and social-media calendar.

Geek of the Week: HootSuite for the iPhone

By Stephen Hui | December 17, 2009
If you use Twitter on your iPhone, you know it’s much easier to tweet with applications like Tweetie and TweetDeck than the microblogging service’s own bare-bones mobile site.
Geek of the Week: TransitDB

Geek of the Week: TransitDB

By Stephen Hui | October 1, 2009
TransitDB makes it easy to see which stops are near you and when buses are leaving from them.
Geek of the Week: Kutano

Geek of the Week: Kutano

By Stephen Hui | September 17, 2009
Ever wonder what people are saying on Twitter about a given Web page?
Geek of the Week: Copyright Consultations

Geek of the Week: Copyright Consultations

By Stephen Hui | September 3, 2009
At some time or another, you’ve probably run afoul of Canada’s Copyright Act, by, for instance, illegally downloading or sharing music or software.
Geek of the Week: Followformation

Geek of the Week: Followformation

By Stephen Hui | July 23, 2009
Unlike Facebook, Twitter isn’t so much about who you’re friends with as who you’re interested in getting to know. Followformation aims to help newbies get started.
Geek of the Week: First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia

Geek of the Week: First Peoples' Language Map of British Columbia

By Stephen Hui | July 16, 2009
B.C. is home to 32 First Nations languages, and they’re all threatened. The First Peoples’ Language Map of British Columbia shows where they’re spoken.
The Open Library wants to become the Wikipedia for books

The Open Library wants to become the Wikipedia for books

By Stephen Hui | April 1, 2009
Launched in 2007 as a project of the Internet Archive, this on-line catalogue now contains records for more than 22 million fiction and nonfiction works.
Firefox add-ons Semantic Radar and Operator show you the metadata

Firefox add-ons Semantic Radar and Operator show you the metadata

By Stephen Hui | March 26, 2009
Where is the Semantic Web located? It may be hiding in that Web page you’ve just browsed.
Worio tags the Web to help you discover sites of interest

Worio tags the Web to help you discover sites of interest

By Stephen Hui | February 18, 2009
What does a next-generation search engine look like? Worio, created by UBC computer-science students, could be a preview.
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Vancouver Twestival to bring Twitterers together for charity

By Stephen Hui | January 29, 2009
The Vancouver Twestival is one of over 100 fundraisers planned for the same day in cities around the world—all of them organized on Twitter.

SPARK FX 09 brings experts on visual effects in film to Vancouver

By Stephen Hui | January 21, 2009
Amazed by the computer-generated effects in The Abyss, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day?

MakeFive wants your top-five lists

By Stephen Hui | January 15, 2009
Are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bill O’Reilly, Charles Manson, and Donald Rumsfeld really the five most evil Americans alive? You can have your say on MakeFive, a Web site developed by Gastown-based smashLAB that invites users to create, vote on, and comment on top-five lists.
Krunchd helps people pass on links

Krunchd helps people pass on links

By Stephen Hui | December 18, 2008
Created by Vancouver-based Web developers Jeff Kee and Jordan Brill, Krunchd allows anyone to quickly make a list of up to 30 links.
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BrightKit makes using multiple Twitter accounts easy

By Stephen Hui | December 11, 2008
BrightKit, launched on November 28 by Vancouver-based Invoke Media, makes maintaining more than one Twitter account easy.

Identi.ca offers microbloggers an alternative to Twitter

By Stephen Hui | November 20, 2008
Sick of seeing the Fail Whale when Twitter crashes? You might want to try Identi.ca, a Montreal-based alternative.

TransLink iPhone app on the way

By Stephen Hui | November 6, 2008
Vancouver-based Handi Mobility has developed a downloadable TransLink application for the iPhone.
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