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Sure thing.

Lots of good things happening in Toronto: WattPad, ClearFit, Top Hat Monocle, CrowdCare, Interaxon. For more insight, check out this infographic: http://www.markevans.ca/hot-startups/

Although it's still a quasi-secret, Toronto's startup ecosystem is thriving. There is still room for improvement, particularly the need for more capital and more support from the city.

To be honest, LinkedIn doesn't offer a lot of creative flexibility but here's a couple of ideas: 1. You can make your profile less formal by giving it some personality. 2. Take the same approach to your company profile by injecting some fun and liveliness.

Mark

Excellent insight, including the idea that Google should have simply launched the +1 button rather than a new social network.

Using it depends on the design and functionality.

Twitter has thrived by letting developers use its API to create a wonderfully diverse application ecosystem. The problem now is the ecosystem is thriving while Twitter struggles to find its way. Twitter has done difficult decisions to make.

WordPress in a heartbeat. More developer support, it's free and you can self-host.

Mark

I'm particularly interested in the public vs. private trend.

Nice photos but where's the information about the restaurants? Until you add that, it's pretty but not useful.

This is an interesting PR campaign by the Nova Scotia Tourism Bureau that has captured a lot of attention but doesn't quite work effectively. I give them points for trying, including the use Hacker News.

Try Blog Oh Blog.

Why is this posted on HN? It's a link to a Twitter account.

Because entrepreneurs thrive amid a flexible, non-bureaucratic environment.

Not to be disrespectful but perhaps you shouldn't be using Hacker News to sell books.

Actually, Flickr never raised money from U.S. VCs before they were purchased by Yahoo. If I've got my facts straight, they did some angel financing in Canada from investors such as Dick Hart.

To start, it's not a bad option but once a company gets some momentum, then they probably need to look for a "real" host.

Twitter has come a long way!

I've got an OpenID account but have rarely used it, probably because there are few places to actually use it.

With all due respect, this ain't a tech-related post so not sure why it's here.

A Small Orange - great customer service, reasonably-priced packages.

My guess is new music services will emerge that will analyze your digital music collections, and create playlists for you. There are, of course, many of these around already but you'll see a flurry of activity soon. If the music labels were smart, they would be right in the middle of the action by offering a free service that would pay for itself by providing download services, Webcasts and advertising.