Montreal Tech Watch

image courtesy from fagstein The Sureté du Québec admitted early yesterday that they actually used undercover cops, disguised as protesters at the Montebello summit. Patrick Lagacé, reporter at La presse, also a blogger, hailed it as the first mainstream victory for blogs in Quebec and a proof at the new media’s power, at an article [...]

SFR, a french telecom operator, has started using the tetes a claques to promote its offers and promotions this fall. Surprisingly, the Montreal-born series are very popular in France, because of the stereotypical Québec accent and also because of the frequent “anglicisms”. Michel Beaudet, who is behind tetes a claques, created specifically 5 new “young” [...]

This is a reminder: if you are in web design, web development or in other related areas, there is a web development book club next monday, at Laika, 4040 bvd St-Laurent, beginning at 7pm. 2nd edition report 1st edition report As usual, you are not required to read a book, but you are expect to [...]

Tourisme Montréal has just launched 2 new websites to attract english-speaking tourists to Montréal. The first one is play-montreal, which is a podcast about Montreal culture and events. The second one is a blog, I found my montreal. You can submit there a post, with your story and pictures, and write what you think of [...]

  According to TechnoMontreal and TECHNO Compétences’ website, Techno Compétences is actually developing a new portal which will feature tech jobs in Québec. It will be located at www.macarriereenTI.com, although there is yet nothing to see at that address. TechnoCompetences tracks the workforce working in information technology in Québec, one of the fastest growing sectors. [...]

Hugh McGuire has just started a new project called poetic spam, which I found hilarious. Poetic Spam is a literary journal that celebrates the poetry of spam. Submission guidelines: 1. poetic spam submissions must be legitimate spam (email or comment), whose poetic quality glows through its spamminess 2. you may submit spam snippets, rather than [...]

Roberto Rocha reports about TD Canada Trust and RBC’s efforts to lure attract young consumers in facebook. The group has already 3415 members, and supposedly let users to share money tips and learn about their finance options. In essence, it’s great marketing, as fall session is starting next week for college students. But see this [...]

Skooiz, a Montreal internet company which provides search engine optimization / search engine marketing (SEO / SEM) services, has just acquired Mastodonte. Mastodonte is also a consulting company, in email marketing and related services. It also owns toutacoup and wannawin , which gets 9 millions page views monthly. I am using this opportunity to ask [...]

Astronaut Ron Garin wearing the FlexComp during the NEMO undersea mission If you follow the news, it’s noteworhty that Thought Technology, a Montreal company specializing in biofeedback and hightech instruments, was the main supplier of NASA when they trained astronauts. For instance, they produce the Flexcomp suit which tracks heart rate, electrocardiogram, respiration, skin conductance, [...]

Gesca Digital, which operates cybepresse, lapresseaffaires, technaute among others, will be switching to Nstein’s Content Management System. Nstein Technologies is a Montréal company which specializes in solutions for online publishers. Officially, its solution has been choosen because of its “web2.0 tools”, and because it supposedly increases page views, which will make Gesca ad revenues rise. [...]