Montreal Tech Watch

Montreal on Rails, an initiative by Carl Mercier’s Karabunga, will hold a Ruby on Rails developers meetup on Tuesday, August 7th. It picks up where RubyMtl stopped, i.e. create a user group which will meet regularly, promote Ruby on Rails in Montreal, and connect fellow programmers. This is very interesting and I am putting this [...]

Weblo, which lets users buy virtual real estate, has just raised $3.3 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners, which is based in the valley but has an office in Montreal as well. Weblo has an original business model. Take Montreal for instance, pictured in the screenshot above. You can buy it for $5000, and then you [...]

Fred Brunel has launched this weekend twittercal, an app that lets you create events in your Google Calendar with twitter. For instance, a “tweet” like this: d gcal Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast on Tuesday, 14th of august at 9am would add the event at the MTW calendar. I wrote “would” because there is some latency [...]

Quebecor-owned Canal Vox has setup lemission.tv, a website where they ask users to record a video about a show for the TV channel. Winners can get their show produced by Vox and maybe get a trip to Cuba. This is … sort of nice, although I don’t expect it to be picked up by the [...]

Radio-Energie’s website has been relaunched and visitors now officially land on the community section “carrefour”; and let me tell you, you can’t get more than “web2.0″ beyond that. Here are some of the new features: users can submit news and promote the ones they like by voting. Now, I don’t know if the algorithm they [...]

The blog has grown beyond the point where I have never met in Montreal most of the people who come here. So there is now an about page If you also look in the right-side bar, I have also made small design changes. I am trying out toutlemondeenblogue and topblogues, which are two blog directories [...]

CWTA stands for for Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association , or Association Canadienne des Télécommunications Sans Fil in French. They praised yesterday a recent report by the OECD or Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development which states that Canadians get the most competitive wireless prices in North America. They continue by saying it’s the result of [...]

I just closed the previous poll. Readers of Montreal Tech Watch define themselves as: 26% are in programming (19 votes) 22% are in blogging/working in media (16 votes) 18% are in entrepreneurship (13 votes) 12.5% are in marketing (9 votes) 9.7% are just montrealers interested in technology(7 votes) 3% are students (2 votes) The rest [...]

There are currently no CompuSmart in Montréal, according to a DSI article (french). They have been closing their stores in other parts of Canada for the past year in Toronto, Moncton, Edmunton, or Vancouver. This might be a proof that only big electronic retailers or discounted ecommerce websites works. CompuSmart was one of the rare [...]

Emergenceweb, a blog by Claude Malaison, has published a list of bloggers who writes for business. I counted 64 of them, mainly from Montréal, a few others from Québec City. 64 is not much by the way, for a province that has more than 7 million population.