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Now that the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games are over, we’re all suffering from post Olympic blues. The blues have especially hit hard for Ed Lau, who has been cruising downtown everyday hoping to find a street party that is no longer there. Seeing the sad state everyone was in, it made sense to hold this edition of Dot Com Pho at Happy Pho because if anyone can cheer us up, it would be Happy Brian.

Joining us for this Pho get together were the regulars like Aaron Koo, Michael “FATal1ty” Yurechko, Wolfgang, Christl, Bonnie and Marilyn. Ed finally realized there wasn’t going to be a block party at Robson Square and showed up last. We were also joined by the George Moen, the President of Blenz Coffee. I want to thank George for giving everyone who showed up at Dot Com Pho, Blenz coffee for life. I plan to make maximum use of that!

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Dot Com Pho – Post Olympic Blues Edition

Twitter is worth an estimated $1.5 billion. For most of us, it’s a figure that we simply cannot afford. However, if your name is Mark Z and you have $300 million in cash and $4 billion in Facebook stock, the story might be a little different. Still, Mark wasn’t sure if he could afford Twitter so he decided to call up financial guru Suze Orman during her “Can I afford it” segment to see if Miss Orman would approve of Mark spending $1.5 billion on the micro blogging platform.

Did Suze Orman approved or denied Mark’s request to buy Twitter? Watch the video to find out the answer.

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Can I Afford To Buy Twitter?

The The Shangri-la is the tallest building in Vancouver. The first 15 floors are occupied by the five star Shangri-la Hotel. Above the 15th floor are 306 residential units, consisting of 234 general live-work homes are on floors 16 to 43 and 66 private access residential units on floors 44-60 and two penthouses on floor 61 and 62.

Of the two penthouses in the Shanghri-la, Penthouse 1 was the one to buy. Penthouse 1 offers 5875 square feet of unparalleled living at the top of Vancouver and features a private lap pool and hot tub, Boffi cabinetry, natural oak hardwood floors, in a chevron patter throughout, a private internal elevator, upper and lower master bedroom suites, and distributed audio and lighting control systems. It was offered for sale at $17.3 million and was recently sold to an anonymous buyer.

If $17.3 million is too much for your budget, there is a 2,592 square two bedroom unit on the 59th floor for sale at $4.18 million. If you’re just looking for a bachelor pad, they have a one bedroom 606 square unit on the 19th floor for only $579,900. However, your view will be blocked by the building next door. Here are some photos of the Shangri-la Penthouse.

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Some Photos From The Shangri-la Penthouse

For this final Dot Com Pho of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, we decided to head back to Pho Thai Hoa to try out more items from their newly revamped menu. We were joined by Ronald Lee from Man Meet Woman. Ronald said he’ll be bringing a couple of friends along. We assumed the friends would be some hot women since Ronald is a world famous pick up artist. Instead, he brought along two guys and our weekly pho meet up was once again male dominated.

In addition to the two dudes, Ronald also brought what he thought would be a great gadget of the week. However, it turns out Ronny was behind the times because we’ve featured his gadget over a year ago. All was not lost however as we did have a gadget of the week that saved the day.

For this week’s Dot Com Pho we have the real gadget of the week, comparing food photos on the menu to the real food you get served, killing off background noise and how I plan to buy drinks for all the medal winning Olympians. Enjoy!

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Dot Com Pho – The Gadget of Last Year Edition

LiveCity Vancouver is one of two live cities in the downtown core (the other is LiveCity Yaletown). The two live cities have a big open space with a huge screen so people can watch the Olympic games live – the place is completely packed during any of the Canadian hockey games. In addition to the live viewing space, LiveCity Vancouver houses the Manitoba Pavilion, the Canada Pavilion and a beer garden.

The Manitoba Pavilion has literally nothing in it, which is proper since the Province of Manitoba has literally nothing in it. The bigger Canada Pavilion is where all the action is. Inside, you can take photos with the Olympic torch and view interactive displays. The beer garden is wall to wall people during a hockey game.

All the pavilions will be shutting down this Sunday. On Monday, the city will try to return to normal after 17 days of games, partying and having the eyes of the world on it. Vancouver 2010 has been a total blast. If your city ever tries to make a bid for the Olympics, I recommend you back it 100 percent. You can worry about the bill afterward.

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Checking Out The Action At LiveCity Vancouver 2010

I want to thanks everyone who entered the Affiliate.com T-Shirt contest. We had a ton of great entries and Affiliate.com has chosen the five finalists and now it’s up to Missy Ward, Zac Johnson, Murray Newlands and me to pick the grand prize winner. The big winner will receive $1,000 cash and $1,000 donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund in their name. Here are the five finalists.

Heather In BC
Affiliate By Night
Blog Fully
Stog Blog
Joe Tech

Please read over the entries and tell me who you think I should give the grand prize to. Thanks to Affiliate.com for sponsoring this contest and thanks to everyone who entered. It’s been a lot of fun.

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Vancouver residents are welcoming the world by sharing their hometown’s beautiful landscape and resources with an estimated 2.3 million athletes, officials, international visitors, media, and spectators.

The House of Switzerland Canada 2010 will show its appreciation to the City of Vancouver by hosting a charity auction on its website in support of Streetohome, a partnership between the Vancouver Foundation, City of Vancouver and Province of British Columbia, dedicated to providing Vancouverites access to safe, standard, affordable housing.

“As we are guests in Canada and have enjoyed great support from the public, we would like to give something back to the local community,“ said Manuel Salchi, Director of the House of Switzerland Canada 2010.

The House of Switzerland is auctioning off special Swiss products from its Partners and Sponsors including a Flyer electric bike, exclusive Swiss Olympic celebration jackets, brand new Nespresso coffee machines, Lindt chocolate gift baskets, fondue sets, raclette grills, and various ski and snowboard wear from Zimtstern clothing.

“We are honoured that the House of Switzerland is donating their time and resources to benefit the residents of Vancouver. Their generous commitment to this community demonstrates the Olympic ideals of unity and humanity,” says Barbara Grantham, Acting President of Streetohome Foundation.

Online Charity Auction Details

WEBSITE: http://www.houseofswitzerland.org/de/charity-auction.html
OPENING DATE: February 22, 2010
CLOSING DATE:February 28, 2010, 12:00PM

HOW TO BID: Email the item number, contact information, and bid amount to info@streetohome.org. Bids will be updated on the website in the morning, afternoon, and evening. The highest bidders will be contacted by phone at the end of the auction, February 28th.

WINNING BIDS: Winning bidders must pick up their items at the House of Switzerland Canada 2010 in Vancouver located at 1696 Duranleau Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC on March 1, 2010 between 5:00PM – 10:00PM. Only credit card and cash accepted. No home delivery option.

About Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is a community organization working to ensure that all citizens of Vancouver have access to safe, decent, affordable housing. They bring together business, government and community leaders to build resources and develop lasting solutions to homelessness. Everyone has a role to play. Find out how you can be part of the solution at www.streetohome.org.

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Take Home The House of Switzerland Canada 2010

We may not be able to skate or ski like an Olympian but we can certainly eat like one. And Pho Thai Hoa at 1625 Kingsway in Vancouver is a good a place as any to eat you heart out. With a totally revamped menu with extremely colorful photos, we were tempted left and right to try everything the restaurant had to offer.

Attending this week’s Pho get together were Ed Lau, Aaron Koo and myself. It seems everyone else was too tired from walking and lining up at Olympic events to wake up in time for Pho. What a bunch of wimps! At any rate, we still had a great time and filmed an awesome episode for you to enjoy.

For this edition of Dot Com Pho we have eat until you can’t eat no more, pig feet with hair, a soda made with a raw egg, MSG soup, a salad made with beef jerky, Vancouver 2010 for xBox 360 by Sega, win an Apple iPad, how to make the female Olympic curling teams sexier than they already are and my plan to buy out Vancouver after the Games.

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Dot Com Pho – Eat Like An Olympian Edition

Our Vancouver 2010 Olympic adventure continues with a trip down to Yaletown to check out the Yahoo! FANcouver welcome center. Yahoo! seems to be the only Internet based company to have a presence in the Olympics. Their welcome center had a broadcast station, free wifi, hot chocolate and coffee, photo stations and rolls of iMac to check your Gmail Yahoo! Mail.

The Yahoo! FANcouver center is located at the site of the old Mini Yaletown (1039 Hamilton Street). I mistakenly said that Mini went under and Yahoo! took over the location. That was not the case. Mini Yaletown moved to a temp location during the Games.

When I went to check my email on one of the public iMacs, I discovered that the last user forgot to log out of her Gmail account. I had complete access to it. let this video serve as a reminder to always log out when using any public computers.

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Welcome To Yahoo! FANcouver