Shopify — Designer. get a percentage cut of sales on referred clients. i think this is a killer idea for designers.

Yelp.ca Toronto. Yelp now has a Canada site. it’s sparse on reviews at the moment. hell ya!

Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. no surprise there.

Social News: Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake — but the site works anyway. Tina made the list… and she’s even real!

Well.ca goes Free Shipping. for all your drug store needs. great work ali.

When is Good. need to settle on a meeting time? voila.

Rentometer by Rentomatic – Get House and Apartment Rental Comps by Entering an Address. not a bad app.

No One’s Going to Take Away Our Data, But What Can We Do With It? | Redfin Corporate Blog. so MLS settled with the DOJ over antitrust and online realtors have to be allowed access to the MLS database though there’s some catches. this is still good news.


YouTube – Pork and Beans. internet meme overload.

Identity 2.0 Startup Sxips Into the Deadpool. sxip seemed like one of the cooler startups in vancouver. they’re dead broke.

Animoto. add your photos and some music and it makes a pretty cool slide show. UI has some issues and you’re limited to 30 second clips unless you pay for credit. Amazon invested in them today. here’s an example i made.


Driving Directions with Street View on Google Maps. That’s pretty cool. via josh.

5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train – Warpspire. some interesting points. i think a lot of these problems can be addressed by building identity controls into the browser (like sxipper does).

Zoho Adds Macros and Pivot Tables to Online Spreadsheets. you can write your macros in old school VB and it recompiles it into java. I’m sure the Excel online team is quietly shitting their pants.

Which Weekend? nice little tool for sorting out dates with a large group of people. via josh.

Wesabe Automatic Uploader. i set it up today. that’s right, i gave them my bank password. much nicer since i use safari over firefox.

Springwise: Prefunded, crowdmanaged music festival. get a local sponser and have the audience decide who, when, and where.

Angry Robot: Kick Ass, Take Notes. quick write-up about a couple note-taking web2.0 apps. via ram.

Muxtape + Fluid + AirFoil. turn muxtapes into a stand-alone app and pump it to your airport express.

Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) “And then I lost my cool, tearing into Comcast on Twitter. [...] Within 20 minutes of my first Twitter message I got a call from a Comcast executive in Philadelphia who wanted to know how he could help”. these are the perks of writing for techcrunch.