Generation Y records its life in a huge amount of public detail. Let's say you're at a great event. You don't just share your experience around the watercooler anymore: Gen Y Tweets its glee, Instagrams partners in crime, updates its Facebook status, checks in with FourSquare, and writes a blog about it the next day. But what happens to all of those fragments of the story created on social media, by every single attendee? They're on your Twitter feed one day, lost in a flurry of hashtags the next.

Launching in Toronto today is a new online platform that's designed to make community projects more easy to realize. For lack of a better analogy, the system resembles what you might get if you combined Kickstarter and SeeClickFix (but on a larger scale). Called Projexity, the site provides a system by which community members can launch neighbourhood improvement projects, seek donations, and solicit design ideas. While it might superficially appear like a fairly standard crowdfunding model, the project differs in at least one crucial way: it explicitly encourages collaboration.

Ever sat pondering over what to do on a Friday night when drinking at the bar just seems like too much work? Podium, a new site created by former students of York and University of Waterloo, hopes to add a dash of education to your evening plans. Aggregating information from over 125 websites, Podium lists lectures/debates/talks happening all over the city. Browse by category (Technology, Entertainment, Design, History, Science, Global Issues, Arts & Culture) or get an overall view of what's happening in the coming months.

Let's face it, touchscreen typing sucks! Whether I'm using the portrait or landscape keyboard on a smartphone, tablet or "phablet' it's all the same. The keyboard keys are unnaturally placed, the keypad takes up more than a third of my screen and I'm constantly sending out messages with spelling mistakes or incorrect words.

One Torontonian aims to correct all this and change touchscreen typing forever and judging from all the support he has already gained from his Indiegogo campaign, his dream is soon to become our reality.

There's treasure to be found on Toronto streets. Whether it be a miraculously bedbug free couch at the side of the road or a relatively sturdy bookshelf or table, people throw out all sorts of good shit. The problem, of course, is finding it. How does one make the hunt for such street-side treasures more than a matter of pure chance? The answer's actually pretty simple: you leverage the power of the crowd.

Our smartphones are consistently changing the way we live our daily lives so it's not surprising that they're also evolving the way we order a cup of coffee. With talks of mobile becoming our wallet, many of us in Toronto are already starting to lighten our pockets and purses by using mobile apps in lieu of the traditional coffee card to earn our next cup of joe.