Montreal Tech Watch

CEIM stands for Centre d’Entreprises et d’Innovation de Montréal. Their mission is to support companies who innovate in Montreal and who want to produce and commercialize a new product, in the sense that there must be some R&D involved and that they will coach you in marketing and sales. See the list of companies who [...]

If you haven’t had enough of advertising, Pixman has introduced Pixprojector, which seems to be a projector wrapped in a box, with a portable battery in a backpack. They are introducing it as the killer mobile/guerilla marketing tool. I am viewing it as the 21st century equivalent of the sandwich man. The difference though is [...]

Immervision is a Montreal company that makes software and hardware for 360 imaging. Their products are used for conferences, for panoramic interactive photography and in security. Their Panomorph technology won this year the Frost & Sullivan Award for North American Technology Innovation of the Year. Yesterday, they added a new product in their offering, which [...]

I got this from a email: Hue has made a ranking of the most influent Quebec blogs. (PDF ranking here) Interestingly, I only have one blog from the list in my feed reader, which is nayezpaspeur About the usefulness of this list, I find that it is a complete waste of time. You can make [...]

Benjamin Yoksovitz, blogger, entrepreneur, and active member of the “web2.0″ entrepreneurs in Montreal, has written a series of posts on entrepreneurships on his blog. He wishes universities develop more entrepreneurs. If we sum up what’s going on in Montreal recently: TechnoMontreal launched Barcamps and democamps were a success Montreal is established as a wiki city [...]

First, this post is not a report about the sessions at RoCoCo Camp, I don’t think I can write one; and you will find why later. First, let’s *try* to define RoCoCoCamp: it is a (un)conference about collaboration, wikis and usage of technology in society. It gathers entrepreneurs, geeks, designers and even philosophers. But if [...]

One Wiki per Child Wikis for sustainable development Emerging concepts One Laptop per Child More pictures from RococoCamp Please help me tag the pictures – for instance, to know everyone who are in the pictures and what is the session. Thanks! RAW footage (videos) at dailymotion More pictures from Flickr

RococoCamp has started yesterday. I invite everyone who reads this blog to go to SAT, 1195 bvd St-Laurent, to experience the open conference format, to talk about collaboration and usage of technology in our daily lives. More pictures here

Note: again, I didn’t have a chance to write about this week because of some rails work. Two undergrads from mcgill university have started a new company called ClixConnect.It provides live online customer support for any website, through a widget. A window with a few suggestions appears to the user, which might be product suggestions, [...]

Note: I had lots to do this week and could not update. Sorry for that. I read about Eidos last week but haven’t had time to write about it. Patrick Melchior, director of Eidos, said on MusiquePlus that Eidos Montreal’s first project will be a new Deus Ex. Deus Ex was an innovative science-fiction game [...]