This site is a forum for Canada's entrepreneurs and venture investors. While we have an information technology bias, gagglescape is a place to find or exchange information on all innovation-driven markets.

Why gagglescape? Social networking technologies improve the way people connect with each other to exchange information. Whether described as "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold or part of the Web 2.0 by Silicon Valley, social networks are a powerful way to exchange information. The gagglescape site uses social networking tools to help promote entrepreneurship and investment in Canadian knowledge based industries.

Members and contributors to gagglescape enjoy the benefit of keeping up with the latest news and information in the Canadian entrepreneurial market. Think of gagglescape as your personal knowledge management system for tracking new market opportunities.

Robert Ouellette, the editor of gagglescape, owes the genesis of this project to a number of influences: First, to the University of Toronto where theory, design, and technology come together to foster innovation; Second, to the Ivey School of Business MBA program where the staff and students' dedication and drive are inspirational; Third, to thinkthinkthink inc. and entrepreneur Brian Boigon for their integration of market-driving cultural trends with technology.

Trained as an architect, Ouellette - a columnist for the National Post - holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, and is the past Director of the Information Technology Design Centre at the University of Toronto. With international business experience as a senior analyst at the Boeing / de Havilland Aircraft Company, on the local level he is also the recipient of a City of Toronto Urban Design Award for his study on how technologies influence the design of cities. With thinkthinkthink inc. he directed the Lost Change web project for Motorola, Sony, and Levi's launching the then unknown Black Eyed Peas. His industrial design for the Volker-Craig 400 series terminals contributed to one of the K-W region's first high-tech success stories. He now leads Forum Bureau and builds social networking software and properties.