DemoCamps: The Unconference

 
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Technology industry watchers are keeping a close eye on a unique movement in the geek community — a new kind of meeting form where technology enthusiasts show off what they’re working on. And many people think it’s where the next Google or Microsoft is waiting to be discovered. Good timing too, since Venture Capitalists are back buzzing around technology companies. The CBC’s technology columnist Tod Maffin, now, with a peek into this usually hidden world.

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Are social networking sites doomed?

 
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From Facebook to Digg. From MySpace to YouTube. If the future of the Internet is in these social networking sites, then the future is very much in jeopardy. And it’s all thanks to robots, tiny marketing companies, and greed. At least that’s how the CBC’s technology columnist Tod Maffin sees it.

My finished pak about Facebook

 
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First, it was Friendster. Then, MySpace. And now, the place all the so-called cool people visit on the Internet is Facebook. Another day, another Internet fad? Maybe not. Let’s find out, with the CBC’s technology guy Tod Maffin.

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