Year: 2015
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Vint Cerf and the Good Fight for the IoT
At the 2nd IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things we had the honour and privilege to hear Vint Cerf, a true role model and one of the fathers of the Internet, present a keynote on the IoT. More than that, we had the opportunity to snap the photo above as we shook his hand…
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The Bank of Personal Data
At the second IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things in Milan, Italy, Roberto Minerva of Telecom Italia gave a keynote speech covering everything IoT from the perspective of a telecom operator. Among the topics discussed was the inevitable question of “control of data”. Who should control your personal data? How should your personal…
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Google Analytics for the Physical World
How do you explain what reelyActive does? Early in our history, we discovered that describing our platform as “Google Analytics for the Physical World” resonated well with those who were familiar with Google’s tool, typically used for understanding and optimising website traffic. Exactly two years ago, motivated and inspired from our success at the Startup…
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A simple mantra for the IoT
In his classic TED talk from 2010, distinguished chemist George Whitesides contrasts simplicity and complexity, specifically in relation to science and technology. He describes the Internet as a series of simple, stacked elements from binary ones-and-zeros to the Google search bar. He concludes with two famous quotes, and then closes on a gem of his…
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Blogging about Tweeting about Blogging
Just now we wrapped up an hour-long #StartupChats session on Twitter discussing the importance of blogging and one’s startup (summary via Storify). And now that we’re writing about that here, we are effectively Blogging about Tweeting about Blogging as the title implies! Why? Because that hour of human-generated 140-character content flying across the Internet made…
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Accelerator Day One: how wrong were we?
Two weeks ago, we celebrated threelyActive, the three-year anniversary of reelyActive’s incorporation. At that time, the motivation for our incorporation was our acceptance into FounderFuel, one of Canada’s premier startup accelerators. Today is the third anniversary of FounderFuel Day One. On August 13th, 2012 we met the seven other startups of our cohort at Notman…
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threelyActive
Today, August 1st, 2015, marks, from an official perspective, the three year anniversary of the moral entity known colloquially as reelyActive, and more formally as 9266-5777 Québec inc. Although today we may enter our fourth fiscal year, in reality we embarked on full-time development of the project in the first days of 2012. And the…
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