Marc-André Cournoyer has just released another ruby project. It’s called linkr, and is a place to share bookmarks with friends and coworkers. There are voting features; which makes it look a lot like reddit.com What interested me in linkr is that it’s a follow-up to a series of other programming projects. Have a look at [...]
Stop. Watching. The. US.
I am mad today at investors who are based in Québec or in Canada but are never seen in the local startup scene. And then once in a while, we get words from them from across the southern border. TC reported that Cellfish, a startup operating in mobile and socials networks, got $60million in funding [...]
Map of the Web in Montréal
There is a new new updated version with the STM network The inspiration comes of course from IA JP The map is not complete, it is a visual representation of people and projects I know of or have seen in Montreal. There are also people who are on multiple projects and I couldn’t solve yet [...]
Most innovative video blog in Montreal: vero-b
I decided to close the polls it when it gets 50 votes or after 5 days. The first poll about innovative use of video in blogging received 52 votes this morning, so here are the results: vero-b (19 votes) yulbuzz (17 votes) galacticast (8 votes) zecanada (7 votes) dailywom.tv (1 votes) Congratulations then to vero-b. [...]
Defensio fights comments spam
Defensio, a new system to fight blog comments spam, is in beta today. It’s a wordpress plugin that has “personalized adaptation to your own spam habits, it makes few mistakes”. There are few details avalaible on the technical aspects; the team behind the product, Karabunga, says it’s much more efficient than the competition. Wether it’s [...]
Web Development Book Club in Montreal, First Edition Report
The First Web Dev Book Club was held at Laïka yesterday, at 7pm. Evan has a write-up, and I took some notes too from the meetup: Jean-François Couture who has a software engineering background, talked about In search Of Stupidity, by Merril C. Chapman. It has stories of “stupid” marketing moves done in the hi-tech [...]
Top Canadian Web Apps
Read/WriteWeb has an article about top canadian web applications. There are 4 web services from Montréal which made the list, namely librivox, wikitravel, standoutjobs and ilovetoplay Note: Thanks to Mat Balez, Nick, François La Roche, Geo Perdis, Scott Lake, Stirling Westrup, Martin Dufort, Samuel and Trevor for participating. Special thanks to Ben Yoskovitz, who has [...]
datalibre advocates Free access to data
Hugh McGuire, of Librivox fame, has launched a new blog called datalibre.ca. The blog is actually in english, and not in french as the name might suggest, and is “lobbying” for free and open access to all data held by the Canadian government. Hugh writes: datalibre.ca is a group blog, inspired by civicaccess.ca, which believes [...]
Poll of the Week, #1: Innovation in Video Blogging
Starting from this week, there will be a weekly poll in Montreal Tech Watch about current technology and news. Now, unless you have been living under a rock for the past 6 months, you already know that video is now the biggest trend on the Internet. Joost, Babelgum, vpod.tv, VeohTV, and the Apple TV all [...]
Mighty bids throws the towel
Mighty Bids, an ebay competitor, has dropped the towel, and you can now find the business for sale on ebay, which I see as a tribute to eBay’s business model. Sadly, I don’t think there is a way to go into direct competition with eBay, whose assets lie mainly in its rating system and user [...]
