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Updates for July 2007
Happy Canada Day! As you can see, we've made some slight changes to this site in preparation for some visual design modifications that will be coming down the pipe later this fall. For now, we're focusing less on design and more on content and making sure that what we're delivering is what our community wants to see. We've got a bunch of great content features planned so stay tuned! We're also actively looking for a few more content contributors to join our team over the next few months, so if you're interested drop me an email.
Interactive Screen 0.7 program announced
From August 12 to 17, the Banff New Media Institute is hosting "Interactive Screen 0.7: User Friendly Is Not Enough!". Each year the majestic mountain setting of Banff is host to a mix of international and Canadian new media luminaries and rising stars. For 12 years participants have come to Interactive Screen at BNMI to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come.
iStockphoto in-depth case study
Came across this detailed case study written by Calgary blogger Kempton Lam and Nisan Gabbay, focused on the story of iStockphoto, and its evolution from a free community site into one of Alberta's biggest digital media success stories. iStockphoto is a Calgary-based online community for photographers and a source of high quality, low-cost stock assets.
VIDFEST 2007 program launched
The Vancouver International Digital Festival is an event for the top creative minds working in digital media. Attracting visionaries from games and digital entertainment, Web 2.0, interactive design, animation and mobile applications, it is an annual ‘must-attend’ in Vancouver, Canada. The event includes international business matchmaking, ‘big picture’ conference sessions on the latest trends and markets in digital media, a recruiting fair, high-level seminars for creators, designers, and producers, and loads of networking parties.
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Calgary start-up stumbles its way to $75 million
">SFGate tells the story of former Calgarians Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith and Justin LaFrance, and their path taking their Internet startup StumbleUpon into the white-hot center of the latest technology boom in the San Francisco Bay area. After toiling in obscurity for four years, the founders pulled together an A-list of Silicon Valley investors in late 2005, moved to San Francisco in early 2006, and rode the Web 2.0 wave to success. Last month they sold their 14-person company to eBay for $75 million.
Sega, BioWare to create Sonic RPG for Nintendo DS
Sega of America Inc. Sega Europe Ltd, and Edmonton-based BioWare Corp. on Thurs. announced a partnership to create a new role-playing game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise for Nintendo Co.'s Nintendo DS handheld. The unnamed new offering is scheduled to debut in 2008.
Record-Breaking Attendance at nextMEDIA 2007
This year, more then any other, has been the year of the digital media executive, and nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content, held June 8-10, in Banff was the place to be, scoring record delegate attendance from leading digital media executives from around the world. The sold-out, three-day event, which wrapped on Sunday with a fascinating question and answer session with BBC Director General Mark Thompson, attracted close to 350 attendees.
Oda pledges funding for new media at Banff TV fest
Warning that Canada's new media creators are falling behind their counterparts around the globe, Heritage Minister Bev Oda pledged a $29-million renewal of the Canada New Media Fund on Sunday.
"The rate and speed in which Canadians are moving into the new era seems to be lagging behind those in some other countries," Oda said during her opening address for the Banff World Television Festival.
Washington State Market Access Program announced
The DMAA is organizing a Market Access Program focused on Seattle, Washington from July 16 to 19, 2007. The program is aimed at Alberta-based digital media companies in the areas of web technologies, interactive design, and online game development, that are looking to do business with companies in the Washington State region. Washington State is a global leader in digital media development, with one of the largest concentrations of companies in the world.
