David, thanks for Jaded Pixel mention. In fact there is quite a bit of Web 2.0 stuff going on in Ottawa aside from what we are doing at jP. Here is a little rundown: First I will mention is Craig Fitzpatrick's company Devshop.com, Craig is a former collegue who has been designing and developing an unbelievably useful project management application called Devshop. What makes it different is that it incorporates and corrects for human behaviour. This is ingenious stuff. Craig also writes a super helpful blog called "Uncommon Sense for Software" which focuses on getting real about software development. Craig's posts read almost like whitepapers and are really worth looking at. Derek Featherstone writes the very popular boxofchocolates.ca blog and is also located in Ottawa. Derek is a well respected usability expert who is a member of the Web Standards Project and has been a recent speaker at such amazing conferences as WebEssentials05 and SXSW Interactive 2005. Although I dont know these guys, Market2World is a Web 2.0 marketing company in Ottawa that puts Web 2.0 tools like blogs, podcasts, wikis, and vcasts to work for their clients. As well, Jaded Pixel's co-founder Tobias Lütke is a one man programming machine when it comes to Open Source Web 2.0 apps. If you dont know Tobias, he is a core member on the Ruby on Rails development team and is responsible for the creation of Typo and Hieraki. If you're not farmiliar with those apps, Typo is an open source blogging engine with thousands of installations worldwide and Hieraki is an open source web content management system that allows you to organize digital documents in a hierarchical tree structure. You can read about them all on Tobi's blog "Too-biased." At Jaded Pixel, Tobias, Daniel Weinand and Justin Palmer have been working/releasing some great Open Source tools to support Shopify but which can also be used with other Rails applications. Among them are “Vision” (to make life easy for designers), “Guidance” (our help system), “Opinion” (our community and discussion tool) and lastly “Liquid” (a templating engine for ruby). In case your wondering, Stikipad, the newly launched wiki service uses Liquid to render its pages. If your interested you can read all about what we are doing on the Jaded Pixel Blog. Lastly, the Jaded Pixel crew has also been organizing the Ottawa Area Group of Ruby Enthusiasts (OGRE). We have had two meetings and both have been huge successes. When was the last time you went to a user group meeting that started 7pm and it broke up sometime after 11pm. Granted we have been holding the meetings bars. In any case, if you spend any time in Ottawa and would like to come to an OGRE meeting you can sign up for the mailing list here.