It’s my last day here at Tucows, and at the risk of sounding like a film critic, I’m going to have to say that the feeling is bittersweet. Fittingly enough, this song is running through my head:
Can’t see the video? Click here.
And I can’t mention that song without making reference to the most painful cover [...]
Category Archives: Tucows
It’s the Final Countdown!
November 20, 2007 – 12:04 pm
Not Yet!
November 19, 2007 – 5:28 pm
A number of people have been emailing me and asking when I’m going to write about my new job. If you really need to know now, feel free to ask me offline and I’ll tell you. If you can wait, I’ll start posting about it next week — my first day is Monday, November 26th.
Although [...]
Leaving Tucows
November 15, 2007 – 12:00 am
It’s official: I handed my two weeks’ notice to Tucows on Monday. After four and a half years as their developer relations guy, during which time I held two titles (Technical Evangelist, and before that, the less wieldy Technical Community Development Coordinator), worked in two departments and occupied 5 different desks spread across two floors, [...]
R.I.P. Blinky, the Two-Headed Calf (Who Looks Just Like the Tucows Logo)
August 23, 2007 – 2:03 pm
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
Boing Boing points to the story of Blinky, the two-headed calf, who was euthanized yesterday.
My co-workers at Tucows and I couldn’t help but notice that Blinky bore a rather uncanny resemblance to our corporate logo:
Tucows on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech 100”
August 23, 2007 – 10:19 am
(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
What’s a blog for, if not to toot one’s own horn, or at least the horn of the company for whom he is a spokesmodel?
Tucows, where I’ve worked for four years and where I hold the title of Technical Evangelist, is on Canadian Business’ 2007 “Tech [...]
Welcome to the Herd, Bill!
August 17, 2007 – 2:10 pm
(This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
I’ve known Bill Sweetman since the mid-nineties, back when I worked at Mackerel Interactive Multimedia, so I was very pleased to find out that Tucows — the company where I hold the title of Technical Evangelist — has hired him as General Manager of our domain name portfolio.
[...]
A New Look for the Tucows.com Site
July 31, 2007 – 11:38 am
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
The obligatory disclaimer: Yes, I work for Tucows, where I hold the title of Technical Evangelist.
From Shareware to Solutions
The Tucows site — that is the one at tucows.com, the original site where the company got its start as being a place to download shareware — [...]
The Tucows Developer Blog
July 16, 2007 – 11:12 am
Back when I first started at Tucows — four years ago last Saturday — they asked me to start a developer blog that featured a mix of articles about programming in general and articles about developing using Tucows’ services. This blog became The Farm, and it received a fair bit of acclaim and [...]
Oooooooh Yeeeeeeah!
July 13, 2007 – 4:59 pm
Click the photo to see a larger version on Flickr.
Alas it’s not mine, it belongs to the Tucows Marketing Department. But as a member of that department, I’m hoping to get some time on it to test out some iPhone apps I’m writing…
Tucows Introduces Premium Domains
June 22, 2007 – 8:11 am
[This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]
Full Discloure Time: Before I begin, let me make it very clear: I work for Tucows. I hold the position of Technical Evangelist, and my job is to extol the virtues of Tucows’ services to technical audiences as well as curious laypeople.
The Domain Name Aftermarket
There used [...]
Tucows: Avoiding "Center of the World" Syndrome" and Making Our Services Easier to Sell
May 9, 2007 – 2:26 pm
There’s a “sea change” going on at Tucows (where I function as the company’s Technical Evangelist) and Product Manager Grant Spradling has written an article covering some of its aspects in an article titled A New Direction for Enablers: Making our Services Easier to Sell. He talks about “Center of the World” syndrome — [...]
Tucows Job Fair: Saturday, May 5th
May 1, 2007 – 7:29 pm
If you’re looking for a job as a Customer Service Representative…
…or as a Technical Support Analyst…
…then you might be interested in this Saturday’s Tucows Job Fair:
We’re holding an open house
SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
96 Mowat Avenue
We have a number [...]
Tucows Email Service: What’s Under the Hood?
May 1, 2007 – 7:14 pm
Over at the Tucows Blog, I’ve posted the first in a series of articles about the new-and-improved Tucows Email Service, which is slated to become available on our “Horizon” test environment in a few weeks and then go onto the Live server a few weeks after that.
The first article, titled Tucows Email Service: What’s Under [...]
Podcast: Tucows and the Changing Face of Email
April 19, 2007 – 5:05 pm
Over at the Tucows Blog, I’ve just posted a podcast about Tucows’ new-and-improved email service in which I interview:
Elliot Noss, Tucows’ president and CEO
Kim Phelan, Director of Product Management
Rick Yazwinski, Director of Technical Operations and Planning
The podcast is the first in a series of posts that I’ll be making on Tucows’ email service over the [...]
Domain Name Registrants, Registries, Registrars and Resellers Explained
March 31, 2007 – 10:27 pm
Over at the Tucows Blog, I’m writing a series of follow-up articles that expands or explains some of the things covered in the article by our CEO Elliot Noss, Questions to Ask Before You Pick Your Domain Name Registrar.
The first article in the series, titled Domains Explained, Part 1: Registrants, Registries, Registrars and Resellers, explains [...]
