If you’re from Edmonton then you should know of Julio’s Barrio on Whyte Avenue. A great place for beers, bulldogs or Mexican food. Especially during the hot summers with their street side patio. We were lucky enough to work with the great people there to create a fun new website we are quite proud of!
Check it out here

This is actually not a brand new project but a slight redevelopment of an older project. We just liked it so much we wanted to share. Look for the first press’d sandwich location in Edmonton City Center this summer!

Additional skills we’re looking for:

• PHP and MySQL experience
• Able to utilize jQuery or similar libraries
• Familiarity with plesk/hosting
• Design/IA experience
• Print design experience

Send your resume, compensation expectations and examples of work to info@overhaulmedia.com.

Agencies or contractors outside of North America need not apply.

Wow, so local Edmonton Alberta University has someone on board I like! The University of Alberta plans to outsource e-mail to google, setting a precedent other major Canadian universities are expected to watch closely. We commonly suggest this to clients for most of the same reasons it seems the university has pointed out.

♥  The move would upgrade service and save $2 million a year, but privacy is a key concern, says Jonathan Schaeffer, the man behind the project.

Read the full article here

For November 2009:

# of local users: 5850 (an increase of 219 from October)

To clarify, that means there were 5850 users who posted at least one tweet in November 2009 with their location set to something that makes them an Edmontonian as described above. This number should be treated as a minimum – there are probably many more Edmonton users without their location set.

Here are the rest of the stats for November 2009:

# of tweets by local users: 290542
# of tweets by local users containing #yeg: 17282 (5.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 106992 (36.8%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 63595 (21.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 17756 (6.1%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 10054 (3.5%)

Source Mastermaq Edmonton