Montreal Tech Watch

As a follow-up to the recent discussions about job boards and other features for startups, there is now a jobs section in Montreal Tech Watch. However, this is not a job board as you know it, it’s a simple, hand-filtered solution that publishes the job ad as a blog post. I believe this will do [...]

Tungle, a Montreal startup that allows easy setup of meetings and appointements via a outlook pluging, went this week to San Diego, California, to present their service at DEMO. It’s a high-profile event that gets the attention of the media and investors, and can be seen as an opportunity for a startup to “take off”. [...]

After a week of beta-testing, Marc-André Cournouyer has launched Refactor My Code, a website to share Ruby, C# and Javascript code. It invites web developers to share publicly snippets of code in order to get feedback and improvements from other members. One year ago, there was rails.techno-weenie.net which did the same thing with a points [...]

If you are providing services to businesses, Multiple Media, a local software company, has released MMCM-blog, advertised as the perfect tool for business blogs. It is said to integrate in form and function with the company’s website, and also offer additionnal security and stats that “consumer” blogging solutions don’t have. The product has left me [...]

Philippe Gauvin of Magnet Media pointed me to Brandfame, which aims to connect brands and companies to video producers. Product placement is a common practice in the cinema industry, in subtle and less subtle forms; it associates a movie star to a product, with spectators then more likely to accept the message. With Internet’s case, [...]

So Denis Canuel who started blogging in French and in English a few months ago at QuebecValley has been working hard on startups and growing his website. Now, he has just opened a new section in the website. It makes a list of startups in Montreal and throughout Quebec. He lists some other planned features: [...]

Deloitte, a top consulting company, has published this year’s list of the fastest growing Canadian companies, or Fast50. For instance, Reasearch In Motion, the makers of the Backberry, rank at 41. Montreal companies that make up the list are: Airborne Entertainment, a company specialized in mobile industry, Radial Point, which provides services to ISPs, Genetec, [...]

The Code Kitchen, which is currently working on CakeMail, has a blog post on their new web-based localization tool. The application is targeted to web developers who use gettext to provide multiple languages for their users, which is somehow a compulsory step in Québec. As CakeMail is being launched in Québec, the Code Kitchen had [...]

Telefim Canada has just announced that Mindhabits has won the ‘Great Canadian Video Game Competition’. Mindhabits wins a $500 000 prize from Telefilm Canada and an equal amount from private investors, to help them develop and launch their game. The competition was started to support and highlight independent video games companies from Canada. It was [...]

Ubisoft Montreal has relaunched its recruiting campaign tropdimagination. Prospective candidates are invited to test their skills in interactive games and quizzes in memory, creativity and logic. Ubisoft hopes to find 150 designers and developers for its workforce thanks to this initiative. Although I really disagree with their overuse of flash, I liked the way they [...]