Montreal Tech Watch

RoCoCoCamp will start tomorrow at SAT (Société des Arts Technologiques) For me, RococoCamp is not really a tech conference like Barcamp, but more about the social usage of technologies, with 2 main themes which are the Open Source movement and wikis. Attendees will decide together, on the fly, about the day’s sessions, as if it [...]

Stéphane Hamel is planning a web analytics meeting tomorrow, from 5.30pm, at Hyatt Regency Montreal. However, this meeting is somewhat different because it will be focused on and sponsored by Omniture.

I have forgot to write about it, but mobivox launched into beta phase, 2 days ago. Mobivox is a voice over IP Montreal startup that aims to bridge landlines, mobiles and skype. The service is free for mobivox and for skype users, and *cheap* rates to other users. A friend of mine said that there [...]

Yesterday was Quebecor’s annual shareholder meeting. Pierre Karl-Péladeau, CEO and founder, talked about his plans of a new 3rd gen mobile network in Canada, a pledge he begun 1 month ago. He also said that his company is being retooled into a multimedia company. His newspaper business is slowly transferred to other platforms, mainly the [...]

The Financial Post reports that the CRTC has created a new division for emerging and new technologies and find ways to police it. Quote from the article: Meanwhile, the CRTC is consulting other international regulatory bodies on how they might police broadcasting systems that have the potential to send signals to anyone on the planet. [...]

IT heavyweight service provider CGI has been ranked 12th in the Global Outsourcing list, published on the Fortune 500 magazine. The list is done by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and takes into account “size and growth, customer references, organizational competencies, and management capabilities” CGI specializes in information Technology and business process services, with [...]

Webcom 2007, a conference about blogging, open source tools, viral marketing, wikis, pretty much about web2.0 in fact, has started this morning. As I write this, Sylvain Carle, Eric Baillargeon, Marc Snyder and Bruno Boutot are updating the blog, with notes, photos, and videos. The experience is interesting, from a social and marketing perspective. Bloggers [...]

Yahoo QA is a website where you can ask any question and then other users are invited to answer it. It has an excellent design (read: the user interface is transparent and doesn’t get in the way) and is backed by a small but solid engineering Yahoo team. The Yahoo Q&A was so popular they [...]

I went yesterday to the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, where 20 other guys showed up. Had some people to meet and some plans to show. Here is a quick report: The usual suspects were there, namely Patrick Tanguay, Phil Chrun, Guillaume Thoreau, Mat Balez, Daniel Drouet and Carl Mercier. I met Laurent Maisonnave who is [...]

Congratulations to Alok Mohindra, who won the April MIAW. Alok Mohindra is behind Fonome, an application that lets landlines and mobile phones call a gtalk account. He made a presentation at barcamp last week. Note: I talked to Marc yesterday about this poll. I want to clarify that this is virtual, and that unlike some [...]