Facebook is the shit. Torontoist has a group on it (778 members, what), but everyone's favourite social networking/time-wasting site just unveiled a new feature that allows organizations––be they bands, companies, websites, or whatever else you can think of––to have their own page. If you like what that organization is doing, you can add yourself as a fan, and then you automagically get a neat little box on your profile that says "I am a fan......

Microsoft has agreed to buy 1.6% of Facebook for $240,000,000, giving the social networking site a valuation of around $15 billion. The deal is good for both parties, with Bill Gates finally hanging out with the cool kids, and 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg getting to throw an awesome kegger. John Tory has officially backed away from the faith-based schools funding issue that may have cost him the provincial election. Seems kind of silly......

A few weeks ago, Torontoist discussed a number of emerging collaborative gatherings, including Talk20 and Dorkbot, and a considerable omission was made when Drupal Toronto was left off that list. Toronto is quite renowned for having a very active and vital community contributing to the development of the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). What is Drupal and why should you care? Put quite simply, Drupal is an open source system for building websites. It......

Walk into any mall gift shop that sells plush animals and mugs that boast "World's Best Teacher," and you'll likely come across products by Ganz. Until recently, the Toronto-based company was known for articles du fromage such as little wooden signs that welcome visitors to one's garden and pillows that claim A Mother's Love is Forever, yet these days, parents know Ganz by a different name—Webkinz. For those in the child-free set, Webkinz are......

Wireless number portability (WNP), the ability to keep your cellular phone number when you change service providers, came to Canada in March of this year. The masses of consumers looking to free themselves from their frustrating cell companies cheered. Those cheers turned to grumbles with the realization that the spiffy new phones received for “free” came attached to lengthy service contracts. Breaking a contract can make switching to (or from) the company with the......

Photo by Danmcp from the Miniatures Photoset. Discussion about the evolving intersection of web 2.0 and the music industry tends to gravitate towards the repetition of cliched mantras which (re)announce the death of the major label and champion the democracy of social networking. While these market trends appear to be in full swing, the manner in which they play out in specific musical economies and subcultures varies greatly. Since electronic music is so tied to......

Michael Ignatieff is a popular guy. He has 171 friends in Toronto, 66 at Queen's and 60 at McGill. His favourite music is by Glenn Gould and his favourite movie is The Godfather Part I. He's married, interested in women, and looking for friendship. Online friendship - on Facebook, the ever-expanding online social network. In daily human contact, social networking has replaced awkward introductions the way that instant messaging replaced casual phonecalls, and obviously......

First, in blog news: Mozilla releases Firefox 2.0: It's a well-known fact that the free browser is highly superior to Internet Explorer, and the new version comes with an integrated spell check designed for blogs and social networking tools. Stop using your IE, fool! St. Louis beat Detroit last night for a 2-1 game lead in the World Series, but nobody was watching it (only 12.8 million). A 39-year-old Whitby man faces 282 charges......