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Vancouver Mashable Meetup for Social Media Day

June 30th, 2010 @ 10:00am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in blogs, facebook, internet, meetup, social media scene, twitter, vancouver
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Today is Social Media Day around the world as initiated by the top social media resource (and most influential Twitter account on the planet) Mashable. While Vancouver hasn’t officially declared today “Social Media Day in Vancouver” like they did in Victoria, the social media community is hosting a meetup to get together and celebrate. It’s [...]

Quit Facebook Day is May 31

May 14th, 2010 @ 10:51am by Rebecca Bollwitt
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Photo by: John Bollwitt To many people, Facebook is the internet. It’s open in a browser throughout the day, it could be their home screen, and on average users are connected to 130 “friends” at a time [Facebook: Stats]. However, even with close to 400 million users (11 million in Canada alone) Facebook isn’t on [...]

Social Media Directory for Ski Season

October 29th, 2009 @ 3:47pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in facebook, local mountains, snow, snowboarding, twitter, vancouver

This morning I woke up to see a new Twitter update from @MtSeymourRoad: Ski and snowboard season is just around the corner and as Metro Vancouver prepares for another blustery winter, the local hills are getting ready to welcome the Olympic-sized crowds that will be flocking to the hills. Here’s how many of them are [...]

Facebook Terms of Service Update

February 16th, 2009 @ 12:26pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in facebook, geeky, internet
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I’m always hesitant to grant permission to aggregator sites to redistribute my content, I mean I license my entire site under a Creative Commons License although sometimes those “attribution” or “non-commercial” bits get lost in the shuffle. One thing I never did was republish my content on Facebook as well, knowing that they would probably [...]

Facebook Awards: Developer and Design Garage Live Blog Tonight

January 28th, 2008 @ 9:26am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in conference, facebook, live blog, vancouver

The second Facebook Developer & Design Garage (and Facebook Awards) will be kicking off tonight at 6:00pm sharp over at the Vancouver Film School on Homer. Doors open at 5:30pm and space is limited to 100, so be sure to come on time. Here’s a sampling of what we’ll see tonight (and for more background, [...]

Facebook Awards: Updates and Speakers

January 17th, 2008 @ 10:33am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in conference, facebook, vancouver

It’s been several months in the making and now we’re less than two weeks away from the first ever Facebook Awards that will take place at the Vancouver Facebook Developer (and Design) Garage. The ever-fabulous Megan Cole (who was also named as one of Vancouver’s Tech Women to Watch in 2008) will be moderating the [...]

Facebook Awards: Best of the West Nominees

January 6th, 2008 @ 10:45pm by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in conference, facebook, vancouver

This past fall, I was the official live blogger for Vancouver’s first Facebook Developer (and Design) Garage and I’ll be back again for an upcoming event later this month which will feature the Facebook Awards. The first ever Facebook Awards: Best of the West, brought to us by some great sponsors, will feature applications that [...]

Facebook Awards: Best of the West 2007

November 29th, 2007 @ 6:00am by Rebecca Bollwitt
Posted in facebook, vancouver

By now we all know pretty much that Facebook is one HUGE a social networking tool to be reckoned with. As of late November 2007, the website has the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with 55 million active members (including non-collegiate members) worldwide, with membership expected to surpass 60 million users by [...]