There is a new service in town, and it’s called tangler. You can consider it as the next-generation forum or chat. It is also buzzword compliant :-) More seriously, I was looking to create a forum or an IRC channel for developers, marketers, or designers in Montréal who are developing a service or a product [...]
watchmojo accelerates growth
Watchmojo videos are now avalaible at clipsyndicate. This new video portal makes its videos avalaible afterwards to “vertical” blogs, ad revenues are then shared with content creators. I wrote previously about watchmojo having a deal with Azureus Vuze, and it seems the company’s focus is to distribute its content to as many video portals as [...]
new Matrox RT.X2, for real-time editing of HD
Matrox, based in Montreal’s West Island, was known in the 90′s for their Millenium graphics cards, and are now serving niche markets for entreprise, industrial, military and governments applications. They are also known by professional videographers for their X2 graphic cards, which allow real-time editing of videos. Now, they have launched yesterday a new version [...]
Ubisoft now a power entertainement house
The financial post has a story how video games companies based in Canada are blurring the line between video games and “traditional entertainement”. At the last E3 expo, Ubisoft Montréal led the charge with Assassin’s Creed, and how they will release a series of books based on the Universe. I also wrote previously about short [...]
Release of Donebox, by Marc-André Cournoyer
With his company’s founders going happily to San Francisco, Marc-André Cournoyer has found the time to make yet another rails application, which is a to-do list manager. Of course, anyone can create a task manager, I did one recently and took 5 days to create it. What I found impressive is that he finished everything, [...]
Upcoming: Web Dev Book Club, July 30th
For those who read books in web design, web development and other related areas, you are invited to Laika on Monday, July 30th at 7.30pm. You can read a report about the previous version here. I was also asked if you have to read a book to attend the event, and the answer is no, [...]
StartupWeekend in Montréal?
Apparently, many found the original startupweekend at Boulder, Colorado was a hit, as many attendees though it was a great learning experience, although the delivery and development failed brutally. Hosted by David Crow, Toronto will now be staging a startupweekend this mid-september, with over 100 people working intensily during the weekend to create a startup [...]
First deregulated telecom markets in Canada
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, has deregulated local markets in Fort Murray, Alberta; and in main New Brunswick and Nova Scotia cities. This means in practice that Bell or Telus can offer new prices without asking approval from CRTC first. The deregulation covers landlines, internet, voip and digital TV. There is no [...]
Montréal as an innovation hub, poll results
There was a poll 4 days ago, asking montréal tech readers what was Montréal’s best advantage as an innovation center and a permanent place for development. It gathered 58 votes, and here are the results: 23% Diversity in Montréal and Montréal’s culture (14 votes) 20% The Universities, student population, and R&D (12 votes) 20% Cost [...]
DemoCampMontreal3 report
Evan Prodromou, Nicolas Ritoux Nicolas Ritoux and Evan Prodromou presented vinismo.com, a new wiki guide for wines, which are classified by country and by varietals. Evan Prodromou started previously with Michele Ann Jenkins wikitravel.org, which had had great success, and he brings with him years of experience on how to start and grow a wiki [...]
