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Facebook Developer Garage 3 Tonight!

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The third Toronto edition of Facebook Developer Garage/FacebookCamp (it goes by both names) takes place tonight at MaRS Discovery District (101 College Street, just east of University Avenue).

Here’s the agenda as of the time of this writing:

Time Event / Presentation
6:00 – 6:30 Social / Mingling / Registration
6:30 – 6:35 introduction and update from the last Facebook Toronto Gathering (Roy Pereira, Colin Smillie and Andrew Cherwenka)
6:40 – 7:15 Keynote by Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager, Facebook
7:15 – 7:30 Website Marketing in Facebook case study (Tim Shore, BlogTO)
7:30 – 7:40 Facebook Pages case study (Andrew Cherwenka)
7:40 – 7:50 Bebo Facebook Application (Roy Pereira and Colin Smillie, Refresh Partners)
7:50 – 8:00 Facebook vs. OpenSocial (Jawad Shuaib)
8:00 – 8:15 Facebook Beacon (Jay Goldman, Radiant Core)
8:15 – 8:40 5-minute Demos:

8:40 and on Wrap-up and Social

If you were wondering what happened at the last Facebook Garage/FacebookCamp, you can see my notes at:

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Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo!

On the very off chance that you hadn’t yet heard: Microsoft has proposed to buy Yahoo! at $31 per share, which translates to just under $45 billion. My fellow Canuck tech news bloggers Mark Evans and Mathew Ingram have weighed in, and — as Mark has astutely observed, the major snowstorm covering the northeast should have the blogosphere’s tongues a-waggin’. Keep an eye on Techmeme for the latest news.

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When “We Remove Vista” Becomes a Selling Point

Here’s a sign displayed in the window of A&D Computer in Milford, New Hampshire:

Sign in a Seattle computer store window: “We remove Vista / We install XP”

Here’s the relevant excerpt from Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog:

Shop manager Aaron Kaplan said they were prompted to put it up because so many people were having problems with Windows Vista, including compatibility issues with older software and trouble adjusting to the interface.

“A lot of people didn’t like using Vista, and a lot of the manufacturers forced people to go up to Vista,” he said.

What was the demand for the service? “We had a lot of people coming in and asking about it,” Kaplan said. “Of all the signs we put up there the last two years, at least, we probably got the most response out of that one. A lot of people coming in.”

Kaplan said they’ve since replaced it with a different message, but they’re thinking about putting the Vista removal message back up.

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“The Dog Ate My Homework”…The Microsoft Way!

Phil Factor’s blog entry, Microsoft Boy Announces His School Homework, is a pretty good allegory for how Microsoft’s marketing department communicates.

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Ten Worst PC Keyboards of All Time

10 Worst Keyboards of All Time

PC World takes a look at the 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time:

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RailsConf 2008 Registration is Open

Just got the email: early bird registration for RailsConf 2008 (which is $100 cheaper) is now open. When I was working a nice big company like Tucows, they’d foot the bill, making the decision a no-brainer. Now that I’m at TSOT, which is a start-up, we don’t have those budgets and now I have to think about the bang-per-buck ratio. Are you going, and what factors are you taking into account?

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“Star Wars” Stills in 1080p

Need desktop images? How about these Star Wars stills in 1080p?