Comments for John Philip Green

Comment on Still watching? New Sortable.com decision engine. by Garin Kilpatrick

Garin Kilpatrick — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:14:30 +0000

Cool post John,

I’ll be amazed if Sortable does not achieve success. With 3 million visitors a month they are clearly already well on their way.

There is an entire world of products out there to be sorted and it will be interesting to see how this decision engine evolves.

Cheers,

Garin

Comment on Still watching? New Sortable.com decision engine. by Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:34:03 +0000

how do you invest in this company

Comment on Watch list: Ampush, Allerta, Snapsort, Unata by Still watching? New Sortable.com decision engine. « John Philip Green

Still watching? New Sortable.com decision engine. « John Philip Green — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:58:18 +0000

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Comment on Indelible India by Kartik

Kartik — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:56:37 +0000

Jugaad – you should name your next company that!

Comment on January Action by Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:48:10 +0000

Thanks for the note here John. We are so excited to work with all of you guys at CommunityLend. Looking forward to Wednesday and the big Toronto Best of 10 awards.

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Comment on PIPEDA: Reading the tea leaves by Colin Henderson

Colin Henderson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:31:14 +0000

@David … just curious how that would work. I understand that Homeland Security could privately ask a US provider to turn over data but in what way would Canadian companies be required to be compliant with US law?

The subtext to my question is that what if the Canadian company could encrypt their data such that even Amazon cannot read it. In this scenario Amazon would comply with Homeland Security requests but the content would be gobblydygook.

Is there any way that Homeland could go after a Canadian company to request the security key? I assume under our law that would become public and further assume have not chance of success in Canadian law.

Comment on PIPEDA: Reading the tea leaves by David Michaud

David Michaud — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:09:36 +0000

Great comments. One clarification – Generally, when a Canadian company exports this data to other jurisdictions, it often renders it within the scope of statutes and regulations of that country as well (i.e. the Patriot Act). Amongst other things, it makes compliance more onerous and creates potential jurisdiction and litigation issues. In that sense, Canadian companies worry about more than just “100% compliance with PIPEDA”.

Comment on Introducing Ampush Media by Watch list: Ampush, Allerta, Snapsort, Unata « John Philip Green

Watch list: Ampush, Allerta, Snapsort, Unata « John Philip Green — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:15:51 +0000

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Comment on PIPEDA: Reading the tea leaves by Craig Mack

Craig Mack — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:42:03 +0000

I’m terribly un-qualified to comment on this subject – privacy and intellectual property are areas that I have so little knowledge. I haven’t even read PIPEDA, not to mention that IT is far beyond me.

Having said that, three comments:

1) Most legislation will detail to whom it applies. That’s the starting point for determining to whom it applies; it may yet be challenged for overreaching and being unconstitutional;

2) Again, demonstrating my ignorance, it seems to me that this could be a good opportunity for a cloud computing company to be based in Canada (I’m not sure if this is what CentriLogic does) or perhaps a new division/licensee of Amazon. Companies concerned about overly invasive US laws might take refuge in Canada;

3) Great writing.