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The CERN dome, Switzerland

Planning a vacation this winter?  Why not consider a visit to one of the 12 “Tech Meccas” listed in an August 2009 InfoWorld article.

Included on the list of “holy grail” sites is the shed where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard developed their first product, the Model 200A audio oscillator, in 1938 and the Stanford dorm room which houses Google’s first server farm. The list is very US-centric, making one wonder – are there any “tech meccas” in Canada that belong on a list like this?

To see the list, read: “Tech meccas: The 12 holy sites of IT”

Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Top 10 mistakes entrepreneurs make when writing a business plan“. Find out more under Business and entrepreneurship.

Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Business benefits abound with Ontario tax reductions“. Find out more under Business and entrepreneurship.

Here’s the round-up of the week in the newsfeeds. Below I highlight my favourite articles of the week from each category.

Today’s Top Pick – “Ottawa’s technology community strengthened through $44 million initiative“. Find out more under Information and communication technology.

Changing the way we live

Good, the magazine “for people who give a damn”, recently released its first-ever The Good 100 list in its Fall 2009 issue.  Billed as a list of “…people, businesses, projects, organizations and ideas that will be improving the planet and the lives of the people on it”, the list includes everything from Lebônê Solutions’s microbial fuel cell technology to the U.S. Cash for Clunkers initiative to the bottled water ban initiated by Bundanoon, Australia.

For those interested in social or environmental innovations, the list makes for an inspirational read.

http://awesome.good.is/good100/good100.html