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  • Links of the Moment

    Here are some recent posts that are excellent reads.
    1) Influentials On The Web Are People With The Power To Link. With keen interest I’ve been reading the content that has erupted around Clive Thompson’s latest article in Fast Company. I’m not convinced that Watts’ theory is mutually exclusive from Gladwell’s.
    2)  The Big Lie About […]

  • Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 7

    Forever this song will be linked to some memorable runs through Westdale in early fall. Classes were starting at McMaster and the village was alive with frosh week action supported by the warm Indian summer.
    Gotta Get Myself Into It by The Rapture is my 7th favorite song of 2007. If you’ve been following the […]

  • Songs of the Year - Best of 07: Number 8

    If I was to tell you that MGMT - Kids was a song of the year and you were to respond “but Fraser, you only discovered that song two short days ago” you would be correct.
    I share that song for a few reasons: (i) I’m totally addicted to it right now; (ii) Ken sent […]

  • NYC

    At precisely 9:00 pm on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 my plane touched down in New York City marking the start of my NYC adventure.
    Yesterday was a mixed day of emotions. There were emotional highs about the adventure that lays ahead. There were also trying lows. I wrote this a short moment after waving goodbye […]

  • 3 Things (design focused)

    Economics and Design. Design (in every respect) is one of the major areas associated with web 2.0.
    Many stories of the past few years are explained like this: web 1.0 idea + great design (usability + …) = success. Increasingly we’re seeing design fuel industry changing innovation across a wide range of markets. It’s only […]

January

This is the archive for January, 2008.

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Hi, I'm Fraser and this is my personal site where I write about the things I'm interested in: start-up strategy, the web, music, and life.

My days are spent commercializing emerging technologies. Currently I'm helping to deliver the promise of semantic web to the consumer market at AdaptiveBlue. Previously I was at Trivaris, a Canadian seed stage investment firm.

I am a co-founder of Innovation Night, a community driven event supporting entrepreneurship in Canadian and US cities.

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