Posts Tagged ‘Ottawa

It’s not just Google and Facebook that are under scrutiny from privacy watchdogs. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), a consumer advocacy group based in Ottawa, has asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate alleged violations of Canadian privacy law by popular teen social networking site, Nexopia. PIAC’s complaint identified six Nexopia privacy practices [...]

Hyper-local publishing company Examiner.com is set to launch its service in five Canadian cities. According to the organization, Examiner will now provide localized content to those living in Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. The company will also offer national content for all those not living in the five cities. Examiner is growing up quickly [...]

Google's Street View is now live in Canada. (Credit: Google Google announced on Wednesday that it has launched its Street View service to 11 cities in Canada, including Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, among others. Google Street View, which originally launched in May 2007, allows users to virtually navigate neighborhoods in 14 countries around the [...]

A new batch of Google Street View imagery has been released, and it’s a significant one.  Rather than hit a few more American towns, Street View’s documented sights in two countries – Canada and the Czech Republic – for the first time. Let’s start with the Czech Republic, where coverage is a bit more limited [...]

Jonathan Snook is an internationally recognized & admired web designer/developer based in Ottawa, Canada. He has also co-authored two acclaimed books: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, and the approachable, widely-read The Art and Science of CSS. You can also find Jonathan at snook.ca where he shares great tips, tricks and bookmarks. <![CDATA[ [...]


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