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+++ Winners of Canadian New Media Awards Announced
+++ Blast Radius Wins Gold at Clio Awards
+++ CBC Radio's 120Seconds.com Nominated for Webby
+++ Canadian Technology Walk of Fame Announced
+++ cars4U.com Scores 200 Vehicle Sales
+++ Digital Media Exhibition Seeks Student Artwork
+++ Lethbridge College Offers Student Placements
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+++ Feds Plan to Get Jump on JumpTV
+++ Indigo and Chapters Web Sites to Merge
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+++ Silicon Valley Babies to Get Email at Birth
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+++ Bell Canada Buys B2B Portal Onvia
+++ Abebooks Announces New President and CEO
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+++ Canadian Kids Love Their Online Music
+++ Canadians Also Love Being Online
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+++ SMART Toronto's Smart Start Breakfast Series
+++ Toronto Ad Club's Internet Day Luncheon
+++ LVNMC Revenue Model Clinic
+++ Humber College Macromedia Seminars
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+++ Winners of Canadian New Media Awards Announced
Delvinia, producers of the second annual Canadian New
Media Awards, have announced this year's winners. Sixty
finalists from across Canada competed for the 12 hand-
blown glass Pixel awards. The Grogs (a.k.a. puppeteers
Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley) emceed the event, which
was held in CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. The
Awards ceremony was a lively, light-hearted event that
poked fun at all the gloom-and-doom surrounding the Dotcom
and high-technology industries. To read profiles of the
winners and to view a Webcast of the event, visit the
Canadian New Media Awards Web site.
http://www.cnma.ca
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+++ Blast Radius Wins Gold at Clio Awards
Canada's Blast Radius has won gold at the prestigious
Clio Awards. The Internet professional services firm won
in the category of Brand Building for a Nike Web site
entitled The World Body that focused on Nike athletes who
participated in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. "It is a
tremendous honour for us to have our demonstrated ability
to deliver value and technical innovation recognized in
this way," said Michael Dingle, executive vice-president
of client development for Blast Radius. The Clio Awards
remain the world's largest advertising awards competition
and one of the most prestigious in the international
advertising and business communities.
http://www.blastradius.com
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+++ CBC Radio's 120Seconds.com Nominated for Webby
And last but not least in our awards wrap-up, CBC Radio's
120Seconds.com Web site has been nominated for a
prestigious Webby Award in the broadband category. The
120Seconds.com site is a "showcase of the latest in bite-
sized animations, videos and multimedia stories created
for, and by, young Canadians." Other nominees in the
category include Yahoo's Finance Vision, the Pulitzer
Newseum, Heavy and Once Upon A Forest. The Webby Awards,
referred to by some as "the Oscars of the Internet," will
be presented on July 18, 2001 in San Francisco.
http://www.120seconds.com
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+++ Canadian Technology Walk of Fame Announced
Canadians who contribute to global technology will soon be
honoured with the creation of the Canadian Technology Walk
of Fame. Said to be the first of its kind in the world,
the Walk of Fame will honour 10 inventors each year as
nominated by the Canadian public and selected by a panel
of judges. Julian Wharton, winner of this year's Canadian
New Media Awards Volunteer of the Year Award, created the
Walk of Fame. "As technologists and inventors we often
work in isolation," said Wharton. "The more I investigated
the idea, the more enthusiastic and excited I became about
Canadian contributions to global technology."
http://www.ctwof.ca
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+++ cars4U.com Scores 200 Vehicle Sales
Canadian online car dealer cars4U.com has reached the 200
mark for vehicle orders since launching its Web site in
September 2000. The orders are said to represent more than
$4.5 million in revenue to cars4U.com alliance dealers.
The cars4U.com Web site offers detailed information on
hundreds of vehicles, as well as the ability to compare
vehicles, side-by-side, in a range of categories that
include price, safety, warranty and performance. "Traffic
and sales have exceeded our expectations," said Barry
Shafran, president and chief executive officer of
cars4U.com Ltd. "We're seeing momentum build steadily
toward greater and greater sales volume."
http://www.cars4U.com
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+++ Digital Media Exhibition Seeks Student Artwork
Skip Intro is the catchy name of an upcoming exhibition of
student artwork in digital media, produced by the SIGGRAPH
Toronto Professional Chapter and curated by Michelle
Kasprzak and Mark Jones. Students from any digital media
training institution in the Greater Toronto Area are
invited to submit work for consideration, and the cream-
of-the-crop will be exhibited in October, 2001 in Toronto.
Types of work that will be accepted include digital
stills, screen-based work (e.g., Director movies, Flash),
Web sites and short animations that have a story or theme.
Better hurry, the deadline for submissions is June 20,
2001! Contact Mark Jones for more information.
editor@cyberstage.org
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+++ Lethbridge College Offers Student Placements
Alberta's Lethbridge Community College is offering new
media production students to new media companies for
practicum placements. The program, the first of its kind
in Alberta, offers broad training in new media production
over a period of 60 weeks and includes a worksite
placement of 4 months during the last semester of the
course. Multimedia Production students are available for
practicums every September, January and May and many are
willing to relocate. For more information please contact
the Practicum Coordinator, Susan McLean, at (403) 329-7202
or s.mclean@lethbridgecollege.ab.ca.
http://www.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca
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+++ Feds Plan to Get Jump on JumpTV
The federal government, no doubt caving in to the
formidable lobbying powers of Canadian broadcasters, is
expected to act quickly to deal with Montreal-based
JumpTV's plans to retransmit television programs on the
Internet without restriction. The government plans to
issue a policy paper within a few weeks that will likely
propose changes to the Copyright Act that will "either
prohibit or restrict retransmission over the Web." The
move would effectively "short circuit" JumpTV's plans to
argue its case before the Copyright Board in December.
(Source: The Globe and Mail)
http://www.jumptv.com
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+++ Indigo and Chapters Web Sites to Merge
The Chapters and Indigo Books Web sites are combining
their operations. Indigo has entered into a "service
agreement" that will see Chapters running the operations.
In the meantime, the stores will continue to operate
separately. "This new site will blend the best of
chapters.ca and indigo.ca to create the most efficient,
engaging and entertaining on-line retail site for books,
music, movies, gifts, garden products and more," Peter
Cooper, president of Chapters Online wrote to customers in
a recent email. (Source: The Globe and Mail)
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca
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+++ Silicon Valley Babies to Get Email at Birth
Never mind that souvenir maternity ward nametag you saved
for your baby's baby book. A hospital in California's
Silicon Valley is offering newborns an email address
within minutes of being born. Sequoia Hospital has teamed
up with Namezero.com to offer the service that will
provide "access to free email and URL forwarding, as well
as online tips and resources for child care and
parenting." Our only concern, dear reader, is how much
spam will these youngsters have accumulated in their
mailboxes before they are even old enough to access their
email?
http://www.namezero.com
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+++ Bell Canada Buys B2B Portal Onvia
In a move straight out of the Bill Gates book of business
strategy, Bell Canada's Bell Zinc, operators of the
business Web portal Bellzinc.ca, is buying Bellzinc.ca's
largest competitor, Onvia. Although financial details of
the deal were not announced, Bell Zinc is expected to
benefit from Onvia's brand recognition, content and large
customer base. "This success [of BellZinc.ca] coupled with
the established Onvia brand and solid customer base will
deliver enriched content and a full spectrum of business
applications designed specifically for the Canadian
market," Josee Goulet, chief executive of Bell Zinc and
president of Bell ActiMedia, said in a release.
http://www.bellzinc.ca
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+++ Abebooks Announces New President and CEO
Abebooks.com has announced that Brent James has been
chosen as the company's new President and CEO. James has
said he will make "the Web's best-kept secret" a little
less secret. Victoria-based abebooks.com is one of the
world's largest book Web sites, with some 8,200 member
book dealers around the world, enabling booksellers of any
size to compete on an equal footing with book superstores.
"It is truly an honour to be abebooks.com's new President
and CEO. The founders have built a remarkable business
with a well-deserved reputation of service to book
dealers, and tremendous opportunities for growth," James
said.
http://www.abebooks.com
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+++ Canadian Kids Love Their Online Music
A new study has shown that more than half of the world's
"young adult" Internet users have downloaded music at some
point. The Ipsos-Reid study found that 51 per cent of
users between 18 and 34 have downloaded music files from
the Internet. Among college-aged adults that figure
reaches 61 per cent. Leading the pack are Canadian and
Taiwanese users with a 76 per cent average. And it's not
just the youngsters downloading the files. In the 35 to 54
age group, 29 per cent have downloaded files, and 16 per
cent of the over 55 group have also done so.
http://www.ipsos-reid.com
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+++ Canadians Also Love Being Online
There's little doubt that Canadians have time on their
hands. A new Media Metrix survey shows that Canadians
spend an average of 932 minutes -- that's 15.5 hours --
online per month. That total is up 82 per cent from May
2000. The new figures put Canadians ahead of everyone else
in terms of time spent online. Users in the United States
spent an average of 876 minutes online in April, the study
says. Germans spent 710 minutes, Japanese 707 minutes and
Brazilians 621 minutes. During the same period the number
of Canadians with Web access grew by 14 per cent.
http://www.mediametrix.com
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+++ SMART Toronto's Smart Start Breakfast Series
June 12, 2001 in Toronto, ON
The Smart Start Breakfast Series is a bi-monthly
information event for industry leaders focusing on
emerging trends in the technology sector. June's event
will feature guest speaker Victor Bapat from Intel Canada.
http://www.sto.org
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+++ Toronto Ad Club's Internet Day Luncheon
June 13, 2001 in Toronto, ON
The theme of this professional lunch event is "The Second
Dotcoming: How emerging technology and convergence will
impact advertising" and the keynote speakers are Michael
Moskowitz, President & General Manager, Palm Canada and
Janet Callaghan, Group Sr. Vice President, BellGlobemedia.
http://www.internetdaytoronto.com
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+++ LVNMC Revenue Model Clinic
June 20, 2001 in Toronto, ON
The Liberty Village New Media Centre (LVNMC), in
partnership with VentureDrive.com, presents a Revenue
Model Clinic designed to help entrepreneurs create a
realistic approach to projecting sales.
http://www.venturedrive.com/events/event06202001.html
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+++ Humber College Macromedia Seminars
June 25-28 in Toronto, ON
Humber College will be sponsoring a series of "official"
advanced Macromedia seminars in Flash Actionscript and
Director 8.5 featuring Terry Schussler, a Macromedia guru.
http://sms.humberc.on.ca/macsite
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really -- but rest assured she and her opinions will be
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