Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

Vancouver tech nerds and cell phone junkies are pretty excited about the launch of Foursquare here in Vancouver on Wednesday, September 9th. The location-based social networking tool has been burning up on the blogs and twitter feeds since its introduction to the tech community at last years SXSW. Since then, the folks at Foursquare have been adding cities to their fold and we’re happy to see Vancouver included in the elite list of available locations as it legitimizes our fair land as a major center of internet activity and innovation.
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Monday morning coming down. It seems that Vancouver has made a prompt return to the rainy weather that it’s so well known for after a two week long heat wave. Which brings me to the hilarity of the fact that I have spent most of my morning researching death, or in this case, death and the internet. Not a very nice topic I know, but with something as entrenched in life as death is, it’s a kind of a necessary one, as you’ll soon find out.

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Social Network sites have long been the domain of a youthful digital culture, looking to connect and build friend circles away from the structure and convention of the real world. While this may still be the impression the general populace has on sites such as MySpace, many would be surprised to find out what makes Facebook truly stand out from the pack. Facebook comes of age and sets a pace to bring relevance to a more sophisticated user-base. More after the jump.

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