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		<title>Happy 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 2010 or specifically, Happy Twenty Ten. Apparently, this is the proper way of calling this year. It IS simpler to say admittedly. 2009 went by really fast but with some major changes in my life both personally and professionally. Personally, we welcomed David into our lives in late October. I usually don&#8217;t talk that much about my personal life on thekunit.com for personal reasons but David is a massive change in my life. It&#8217;s really easy to understand why babies are called a &#8220;bundle of joy&#8221; because they simply are. They love so unconditionally and falling in love with your child is the easiest and most natural thing to do. However, they do require a lot of care but as parents we do it with so much joy because they are that worth it. Since David has been in my life, free time isn&#8217;t as readily available and between work and caring for him, there&#8217;s very little time for extra-curricular activities. Professionally, I&#8217;ve left Zoocasa for Canpages.ca. I leave Zoocasa with a heavy heart because there are a ton of really good friends I&#8217;ve left behind like Saul Colt, Jason Lewin, Angelo Berios, Gerry Power and Tanzeeb Khalili who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PeopleBrowsr &#8211; a serious Tweetdeck competitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though Tweetdeck revolutionized Twitter use in my mind, the Twitter desktop client of choice for me is PeopleBrowsr. Tweetdeck did a similiar thing that the iPhone did which was to revolutionize the Twitter desktop clients. I now describe Twitter as an office and the group concept is similiar to different water coolers in the office. It allows me to hang out at particular watercoolers depending on what is going on or what I&#8217;m interested in at that part of the day. When I first used PeopleBrowsr, it was a web version of the already very popular Tweetdeck but it was extremely buggy to say the least but even then it had quite a lot of potential. I like the idea of having a web based version of Tweetdeck because I&#8217;m not always on the same computer all the time. Since then, PeopleBrowsr has quickly grown to be a very powerful Twitter client and is currently my default Twitter client. &#160; Groups The concept of groups was revolutionized by Tweetdeck. PeopleBrowsr has taken it one step further by creating the concept of public and private groups. For instance, I&#8217;ve created public groups for Zoocasa for people who want to follow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired Wednesday &#8211; May 10, 2009 [Call to Action]</title>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Wired Wednesdays. It was the first taste of a start up meetup in Toronto. It&#8217;s amazing to see how vibrant the startup culture is in Toronto. This time around was no different. I haven&#8217;t been to one since the first one and the event has grown since then. The May Wired Wednesday Toronto featured Spreed, Homestars and Zoocasa. Spreed is a white label news app, Homestars is a review site for trades people and Zoocasa IS THE BEST PLACE TO SEARCH FOR HOMES in Canada. The reviews of the various start ups is always cool, especially Canadian startups. Even though I wasn&#8217;t born here in Canada, I am proudly Canadian. It is what I identify myself with. There were a couple of highlights of that night. The big one for me was Saul&#8217;s call to action. The one thing that we don&#8217;t do well in Canada is to highlight our Canadian startups. I think naturally Canadians are reserved. We like to remain low key and consistently humble. However, for us to be successful, we have to drum up more support for the various ideas we have here in Canada. The second highlight of the night was Stuart Macdonald&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow Friday &#8211; May 15, 2009 (aka the I LOVE LEWIN post)</title>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best suggestions someone (I think it was @flyingspatula) made about Follow Fridays is to actually suggest fewer but give reasons why. While there are very, very many people I really enjoy following, I wanted to keep this list small so that I could spend a little bit more time on highlighting why I follow each of these folks listed. @Zoocasa &#8211; this is where I work! Primarily managed by Jason Lewin, this is the quickest way to find out what&#8217;s new and exciting about Zoocasa. I personally believe we have an awesome site if you&#8217;re looking for a home. Personally, we have a phenomenal team that makes this happen from day-to-day. @JasonLewin &#8211; marketing guru extraordinaire. More importantly, an all around nice guy. Jason is the hardest working person on the team. He&#8217;s in early and out late. Well connected and always willing to share and introduce to others. Always willing to do anything that helps out the team or a team member out. A really classy guy. He had the ingenius idea of having me tweet something at the Realtor Quest show that ripped big benefits for our team but didn&#8217;t bother to take credit for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper over Programming</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2009/04/27/Paper-over-Programming/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Paper-over-Programming</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;ll be the first to admit that being a developer in my previous life, I have the tendency to pick or build an application as my first reaction to solving any problem. Often times, the best solution is the simplest one. One of my greatest challenges when I came to Zoocasa was to figure out how to effectively and efficiently manage my new team. When I started, the team had only recently implemented Scrum. We had stickies printed with stories and we put them on the wall for stories that were checked out. The major benefit was that we could always tell what features that were being developed. However, as an individual and manager, I&#39;m someone who loves data. I always describe myself as a data monkey at heart. I like to have quantitative data to tell me where the current sprint is and how we are improving from sprint to sprint. In that method, we lost a lot of key management data. We decided to use an application called Pivotal Tracker. We saw one of our vendors use it and I thought it could work. Within a week, I started to realize that this wasn&#39;t going to work. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow blogging week</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2009/01/25/Slow-blogging-week/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Slow-blogging-week</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to personal circumstances, it is going to be a slow blogging week for me as I&#39;ve not been taking transit to work the past week and this trend will continue for another week or so. The one thing I do have to say is that it is pretty amazing to realize how much I miss those train rides to and from work. For me, that time is my personal down time where I get to use it to catch on things that interests me like reading my rss feeds and blogging. While I haven&#39;t had time to read, it doesn&#39;t mean that the week hasn&#39;t been eventful. Here are some of the very brief highlights for me. We&#39;ve actually been working on the iPhone application for a few months now and the code was actually ready probably in late November or so. What we had trouble with was getting approval for an account to publish under. Once we had that, we were good to go. The first iteration of the application is a simplified version of our web application and we have a tonne of ideas that we want to put on over time. For those of you who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy, busy, busy</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2008/12/20/Busy-busy-busy/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Busy-busy-busy</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#39;s sung to the tune of Money, money, money&#8230; It&#39;s even more unfortunate when it doesn&#39;t translate to more money for me. LOL. I&#39;ve had a bit of a slow down in terms of writing blogs as it&#39;s been incredibly busy coupled with the unmitigated disaster that has been my personal IT infrastructure. I had an outage of a couple of days because of it. Thankfully it is up and running now. On a work front, work has turned out to be really busy. We have had quite a few last minute changes in the last few iterations and we&#39;re paying the price of it in our schedule. Hopefully with the Christmas break, it&#39;ll give me a chance to reset the cycle and catch up. Internally, I&#39;d like to change how we approach our development to help increase the quality of our releases. Frankly, the next few iterations are going to be rocky. After being at Zoocasa for almost 3 months, I have to say that my feelings are mixed about it. On one hand, I work with an awesome team of developers. For the most part, they are talented, well rounded and quirky of course. Some of them are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter use in real life for me</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2008/12/08/Twitter-use-in-real-life-for-me/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Twitter-use-in-real-life-for-me</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my friends have always been puzzled by my fascination with Twitter. The question most frequently asked is what can I do with Twitter. I think there are very many practical uses with it. Two of the more famous stories are that the news of the earthquake in china and the Mumbai attacks were first heard on Twitter across the world. Another use of it is that it is a way of getting a pulse on a distinct segment of the population. I remember when Rogers first launched the iPhone plans and people on Twitter were screaming bloody murder. I&#39;ve often wondered if Rogers could have managed it better if it leaked the info on Twitter to gauge a reaction of it. Given that Zoocasa is a web start-up, we are quite fortunate to have someone as web savvy as Jason Lewin to focus on Marketing for us. Very early on, Jason set up a Twitter account for the company and has quickly become active on it. I tend to observe from the outside by having a RSS feed for the keyword of Zoocasa. I&#39;ve always found it to be interesting to watch the conversations on Twitter. I came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out what I do for a living and have a chance to win something</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2008/11/20/Check-out-what-I-do-for-a-living-and-have-a-chance-to-win-something/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Check-out-what-I-do-for-a-living-and-have-a-chance-to-win-something</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kelvin.kang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of fun things I like about working for Zoocasa and one of them is that it is truly a start up. It has all the challenges of a start up (crazy busy schedules) but also all the perks as well (web 2.0, mashables) and there is never a dull day at work. Also, another cool thing about Zoocasa is that the roles are always loosely defined. While my primary role is to head up technology, I am also involved in most parts of the business. Lately we&#39;ve been doing a marketing push and it&#39;s been very interesting learning how marketing plans are developed and executed. One of the ideas is our Discover Zoocasa contest. If you haven&#39;t checked out Zoocasa yet, here&#39;s a chance to check it out and have an opportunity to win an iPod Touch, $100 or $50 gift card from Home Depot. All you have to do is enter your info. You can increase your chances of winning if you invite other friends and they sign up as well. While you&#39;re there, check out the site. Any feedback, thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated Oh yeah &#8211; one last thing; check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Settling in at the Zoo(casa)</title>
		<link>http://www.thekunit.com/post/2008/11/06/Settling-in-at-the-Zoo(casa)/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=Settling-in-at-the-Zoo%28casa%29</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#39;s just start this by saying that the opinions I&#39;m about to share is not necessarily of my employers. They&#39;re simply thoughts about my job and what makes me excited about where I am. So, for those of you who don&#39;t know, I currently work for a company called Zoocasa. It&#39;s a start-up that is fully funded by Rogers. While I know I can&#39;t share why Rogers has decided to do this, it makes a lot of sense in a positive fashion. So a month ago, I was hired on as Head of Technology/Technology Lead of Zoocasa. I&#39;m responsible for all things technical such as technology operations, development, QA and architecture. The team is a good size &#8211; approximately 10 people large with a good range of skillsets and experiences. The business value in itself is extremely interesting. Zoocasa markets itself as Home Search in Canada with Smarts. When I look at the site, it feels like a natural way of searching for a home. I can search by neighbourhood, try to pick out the nearest LCBO (yes, I&#39;ve become an alcoholic in the past few years), the nearest restaurants and the nearest shops. It&#39;s got things like a gas [...]]]></description>
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