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August 30, 2010
August 26, 2010
Upcoming events
We’ll be at the 10th Annual Chamber After 5 regional business tradeshow at Bingeman’s in Kitchener, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4pm to 8pm.
As usual, we’ll be at DemoCamp Guelph in October. We missed the last one, but there’s a decent chance I’ll be presenting at the next one, with a plugin I made for Rapportive.
Also, there’s Ribfest all weekend, where Dave will be pouring beer and our unofficial environmentalist will be manning the Eco Station. Guelph Technology and Design Cluster will be there on Friday.
Some more I forgot:
- Trudy will be at Communitech Peer to Peer group on the 9th
- Dave will be at the Guelph Young Professionals Network event on the 14th
- Dave will be at StartupDrinksWaterloo
August 18, 2010
Congratulations to Shopeteer.com!
I would like to send my congratulations to Shopeteer.com on reaching 100 stores! Launched only a couple months ago, the shopping website has quickly added many local businesses into it’s online store front.
August 10, 2010
Risk Management Statistics
Some of our less public facing products deal with managing risks overseas, so I was a little too excited to find out that the US State Department publishes a listing of causes of deaths of Americans overseas (Thanks: Matt).
Here’s the breakdown, I’ve shown figures with and without Afghanistan and Iraq since the risks in those countries is borne mostly by a very specific kind of traveler (and I’m more interested in relative risks, the risks in an active warzone are very different):
US deaths overseas 2002-2009
What’s interesting to me, is that despite all my cleverness making our software figure out what countries are risks for terrorism and epidemics, the real risk management questions I should be asking are:
- Do you intend to drive?
- Do you intend to swim or boat
- and conceivably a few mental health and drug related questions
The only risk I correctly handled was homicide, still I intend to use this data to test my risk predictions for various countries. I might try to estimate a table of risks per capita by cross referencing deaths with the level of travelers in a specific country (If someone has already done that, please let me know, the UN stats are pricey).
Raw data below the fold:
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August 4, 2010
Stealth E-deal
I’m so close to buying today’s Stealth E-deal, which brings up two points:
- It’s really hard to find marginal deals and edge people towards them: I like the Albion, and I might want to get food on a Monday through Wednesday, but I’m hesitating. (Still I like that I can participate in the KW and the Guelph deals, unlike with Groupon)
- Branding is hard, I see the Stealth E-deal people at least once a week, and I still parse the URL depth first (“stealth” is a longer word than “steal”)
