August 11, 2011

mv Dave Matt

Filed under: news — Tags: — Trudy @ 2:05 am

We’re pleased to announce our newest employee, Matt Bond, who will be joining us during his Masters of Computer Science at The University of Guelph.

Here at GiantGoat we pride ourselves on our employees moving on after their stint here. And so in the other direction we’re happy to announce that Dave has moved to sunny California to work at a startup. PagerDuty is a service founded by University of Waterloo graduates to ensure that you’re notified when there’s a problem with your software or hardware and is part of the prestigious YCombinator group of companies.

We knew Dave was lost to us the minute they offered to hire him on as a mathematician, but we’re thrilled that our transition has gone so smoothly with Matt and Justin taking over 100% of his responsibilities with a minimum amount of difficulty. We wish Dave all the best and except to hear interesting things from him as he moves forward with his career, check him out on his blog periodically, worth the read euri.ca.

July 11, 2011

Guelph Art on the Street 2011

Filed under: events,fun,local,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — Mike @ 1:55 pm

The 9th annual Guelph Art on the Street event is less then a week away.  On Saturday July the 16th from 10am-5pm Quebec street will be closed off, and lined with the 64 artists of various disciplines, from painters, potters, blacksmiths, jewelers, glass blowers, textile artists, photographers and much more. I was lucky enough to be selected to take part in the event this year, you will find me selling some older pieces, as well as a series I have been working on just for the show.

You can view the program, as well as a map here .

Art on the Street Poster

 

June 13, 2011

June Events

Filed under: events — Tags: , , , — Dave @ 3:23 pm

Trudy missed Guelph Web Makers Meetup for Accessibility Camp at U of G, which I think was a fair trade off (@seanyo, don’t make us choose) — I’ll see if she can get her notes online. And I missed DemoCamp Guelph while I was in San Francisco, toasting PostRank and arguing about Groupon.

I will be at Ignite Waterloo on Wednesday, this may be their first time not sellng out (it’s a bigger venue) so you can still pick up $5 tickets and heckle Kelly Brooks. Update: as of Wednesday, they were in fact sold out.

If you want to stay closer to home, Transition Guelph is having an orientation Wednesday, June 15, 7pm at 10 Carden ‘if you want to know more and are eager to share your vision of a more resilient, sustainable Guelph’.

May 2, 2011

Upcoming events in local tech

Filed under: events — Tags: , , , , , — Trudy @ 3:43 pm

Wednesday there’s the Guelph Web Maker Meetup but we’ll probably be too tired from Canada 3.0. Still it’s a good event from @seanyo

Thursday, there’s an all-star line up speaking at Guelph Technology Forum on Organizations and Initiatives in Tech at eBar 6-8pm with: Simon Clarke, Brydon Gillis, David Hayes, Lloyd Longfield, Rob McLean and Sean Yo.

Next Tuesday the 10th is Google I/O and this time it’s happening in Waterloo:

  • 10:00 am – 1:00 pm: Keynote, Google Engineer Speaker, Brunch
  • 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Midday Breakout Sessions, Beverages & Bites
  • 4:15 pm – 7:45 pm: Afternoon/Evening Breakout Sessions, Tours, Google Engineer Speakers

DemoCampHamilton2 will be taking place Friday May 27th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Mohawk College. There will be a keynote presentation by Mic Berman, acting COO at FreshBooks and Founder at Embarkonit, as well as demos by FluidMedia, Dan Zen, Indellient, Open Hamilton and MealDeck.  The event is being sponsored by Innovation Factory, Mohawk College and iDeaWORKS.

DemoCampGuelph17 will be June 8th, all of us will be there. You should be too

It’s over a month away, but we’re getting excited for Ignite Waterloo 6, a series of 5 minutes talks with no chance of extra time — it’s an interesting format. Tickets aren’t on sale yet, we’ll tweet when they are.

April 20, 2011

Some research into Facebook advertising rates

Filed under: tools — Tags: , , — Trudy @ 7:53 am

Dave’s done some research on the relative pricing of Facebook advertisements:

We’re helping more and more of our clients into Facebook advertising, so it’s interesting to understand more about demographic targeting. We’re always curious about the cost and conversion rates of a click on social sites versus search.

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