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 business magazine that focuses on new technology. It was launched in 2001.

Backbone magazine is published by Publimedia Communications Inc. and is distributed six times a year.

Pick 20 award

Since 2008, Backbone publishes the annual Pick 20 award for Canada's leading Web 2.0 pioneers. The criteria are: return on investment, competitive advantage, ongoing value, execution and innovation.

2008 winners:
  1. Club Penguin
    Club Penguin
    Club Penguin is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, by Club Penguin Entertainment . Players use cartoon penguin-avatars and play in a winter-set virtual world...

    , massively multiplayer online game
  2. FreshBooks
    Freshbooks
    FreshBooks is an online invoicing software as a service for freelancers, small businesses, agencies, and professionals.It is produced by the software company 2ndSite Inc. which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

    , online invoicing and time-tracking service
  3. ConceptShare, online design collaboration space


2009 winners:
  1. FreshBooks
    Freshbooks
    FreshBooks is an online invoicing software as a service for freelancers, small businesses, agencies, and professionals.It is produced by the software company 2ndSite Inc. which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...

    , online invoicing and time-tracking service
  2. Myca Health, online communication platform linking patients and doctors
  3. CoverItLive
    CoverItLive
    CoveritLive is a web-based service for blogging events in real time, or 'liveblogging'. Developed by a Toronto, Canada-based company of the same name, established in 2007, the application is used extensively by individuals and companies - journalists and media in particular - to provide live...

    , real-time blogging software
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