The reelyActive Blogs

  • When we talk about the sharing economy today, Uber and AirBnB are the inevitable go-to examples. Automobiles are underutilised resources. Connect drivers and passengers via their mobile devices to an online marketplace and utilisation, hence efficiency, soars! Unoccupied rooms and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Just over a year ago we published a blog post entitled “Beyond the Beacon: BLE Just Got Reel where we showed how our technology could detect and identify iOS7 devices using Bluetooth Smart technology. The video from that post has…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dmyuysjsM&start=1716 In their book, The Age of Context, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel examine how contextually aware technologies will impact our daily lives. The video above chronicles our CEO, Jeffrey Dungen, meeting with Robert Scoble during his research for the…