JumpSocial Blog

Wednesday 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm, Nov 14 (20071114)
at Pub 101

Event Brief Description: *SNTTT (Social Network Theory Think Tank) — Format: 10m social, 10m talk, Questions and discussion. This regular activity is hosted by Darcy Whyte (Darcy@Siteware.com) of JumpSocial. Contact Darcy Whyte for details about future session locations and times. Ideas and feedback are welcome! Please RSVP to Darcy@Siteware.com if you do not indicate in JumpSocial that you are attending. Also feel free to add Darcy@Siteware.com as a jumpsocial contact. It’s in the 2nd floor of the pub.

Event Description: ChoiceBot is an Ottawa startup that currently sells a successful, disruptive product search and selection technology to shopping sites. The core technology lends itself very well to p2p communication about products in a social context, and we’re designing an app that enables users to do just that on SN’s, blogs, product review sites, etc. At this SNTTT get-together, we’ll show some design concepts and be looking for suggestions, critiques, ideas, etc., before we start coding.

Nick Desbarats is ChoiceBot’s founder and CEO and has been part of the Ottawa software scene for over 15 yrs, having co-founded three companies including BitFlash Inc., which raised over $23M in venture financing and sold to OpenText in 2004.

Event Interests: No Cover, Talk, Seminar, Cocktail Party, Business, Marketing, Planning, VC and Angel, Mentoring, Technology

Pub 101: 101 York Street, Ottawa, Canada, 613-789-3515

Brief Description of Venue: A 3 Level Pub/Sports Bar/Night Club in the Heart of the Byward market. A Little something for everyone!

Open for lunch and dinner 7 days a week Pub.101 boasts a great menu full of amazing daily specials including 2 wing nights.

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In the past I’ve often made fun of the Canada Food Guide because it was so unclear to me. I wasn’t able to understand what and how much I should be eating. It didn’t seem to account for your size and some of the suggestions didn’t seem right. 12 servings of bread? That’s like 2000 calories. In the range of 6 - 12 servings. Which is the right choice? I had mentioned this to some of my friends. One common response was that it’s just common sense. If it was common sense we wouldn’t need a food guide or be one of the heaviest nations in the world.

In the past I had become overweight and I had turned to the Health Canada Web site to find out what to do. All I found was the food guide that had lots of nice pictures. Cool stuff like a pound of butter. Have you had your pound of butter today?

In the end, I researched non-government information and guides from other governments. I was able to loose 65lbs by changing my diet. I actually learned new diet habits that conflicted with the food guide. The diet that I wound up with didn’t seem to agree with the guide and I went to a registered dietitian to validate my diet. I believe that the information that the dietitian wasn’t very useful as it was a reiteration of some food guide principals. Also, I don’t think there was any proper sense of how much protein I needed.
The other day I took a look at it again. I must say, it too me quite a while to figure out what to click on to see the guide. The put it in PDF format. The PDF crashed my computer a couple of times (or perhaps it’s just large and it took a while to load). In any case, I wound up rebooting.

I was just in the site a few seconds ago and I can’t seem to remember where I clicked to see the guide.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/index_e.html

The other day when I did get in, I was surprised to see that it was improved. I still found things about it that were amusing such as the entire jar of peanut butter. Processed vegetables and fruit (canned vegetables and orange juice). Also I noticed quinoa. What on earth is that? Some sort of fermented milk appears in the Dairy row as well. (Can’t remember the name because I can’t get back in). I can understand that different areas of the world need slightly different guides. We don’t eat ants around here for example I’m glad it isn’t there. But I was quite surprised to find things that I wasn’t familiar with at all.
I researched quinoa and it sounded pretty interesting. I found it in a store and I love it. So that was a worth while endevour. If it wasn’t for discovering quinoa (and spending a couple of days running around asking my friends if they’ve had their quinoa today), I’d say it wasn’t all that exciting to go to the food guide site.

Another thing worth mentioning is that it was hard to figure out what to click on to see the guide. Does anybody else agree or am I just too impatient? I wonder if there’s a way of measuring how accessible the food guide is.

Hello Everyone!

We want you! (You’re input that is!)

The JumpSocial system has been such a success that we need to “scale” the system to handle more traffic. This is an opportunity to make changes to the system.

So we want your opinions on what needs to be changed in the system.

We’d like to know if there are any Calendars or other mechanisms that you use to promote your events. What you like and dislike about them. We’d also like to know what you like and dislike about JumpSocial. Tell us what features or changes you’d like to see.

Feel free to post a comment in this Blog or contact:

Darcy@Siteware.com

Darcy