Earlier this month, those of us at silverorange retreated to a beautiful cottage on the north shore of Prince Edward Island to take stock of the year past and plan for the year to come.

Dan James, the CEO of silverorange, has posted his keynote address from our summit. Don’t be fooled, though, by our appropriation of large corporate terminology (summit, keynote, CEO). There was no convention center, no podiums, and no power-point projections (though we did use a projector to play Mario Kart). Our technology infrastructure for the weekend consisted of a mass of ThinkPad power adapters, wifi hubs, and game consoles.

We were really just 10 people sitting around a fireplace talking about how to make next year better than the last.