Montreal Tech Watch

In user interface visual aids, I love tag clouds in blogs. See this for example for Montreal Tech Watch: You can then conclude that Montreal Tech Watch covers entrepreneurship, startups, mobile and to a certain extent, minor topics like web2.0, blogging, media and telecommunications. If you are a blogger, you may write for instance an [...]

Fagstein reports that the cyberpresse staff has stopped writing blog posts and articles, as asked by their union (Syndicat des travailleurs de l’information de La Presse) until a convention is signed with the company. I will make it short: I think you can ask for more benefits only when you proved you did a very [...]

Unyk, an online address book, has announced they have reached this month 6 millions users. Launched 2 years ago, Unyk is produced by the same team behind the successful Netclub, the dating website sold to the american giant match.com. Unyk is very similar in essence to Plaxo by managing your different contact information. While Plaxo [...]

Praized Media who just went beyond their stealth phase is looking for a lead engineer, and a front-end web developer who can work with the Ruby on Rails framework. On the other hand, Standoutjobs is also charming hunting opening a position for another Ruby programmer in their team, which I don’t understand by the way [...]

There was previously a small “controversy” on an earlier post if whether Google had offices in Montréal or not. I just had confirmation from Denis Canuel who went downtown and their address is 24th floor, suite 2449, 1000 de la Gauchetiere. Now, it seems I wasn’t wrong either. The 24th floor of the building is [...]

Scott Lake, of JadePixel and Shopify fame, has started startupottawa, a blog which covers, you guessed it, the Ottawa startup scene. It seems Samuel Bouchard has also taken the same role for Quebec City. I am not sure what was Montreal Tech Watch’s influence in this, but I find it a great idea. Local blogs [...]

The 2nd edition of Pecha Kucha Montreal is scheduled tonight at Société des Arts Technologiques, 1195 bvd St-Laurent. A Pecha Kucha is very similar in essence to a DemoCamp but from a design point of view. Also, you get a overwhelming majority of girls when it’s the inverse in DemoCamps :-) Now, there isn’t much [...]

Transcontinental Media is launching the 20th of September a local advertising network, allowing announcers to advertise on Québec-based blogs. The initiative will focus initially on a small subset of bloggers, presented as the 20 most influental blogs in Québec, and will show ads from high-end announcers and from its subsidiary Les Affaires. The initiative is [...]

Image by Dave Sideway, The Gazette Vinismo, the newly launched wiki for wines, has been covered by the Montréal Gazette, where Roberto Rocha introduces it as the wikipedia for wines. Evan Prodromou and Nicolas Ritoux introduced vinismo first at DemocampMontreal 3, I found it great and promised to a great future. However, Roberto Rocha brought [...]

La Semaine Québecoise de l’Informatique Libre, which I freely translate to “Québec Week of Free Software”, has begun today. You can see a list of activities on their website, such as Ubuntu install parties or the local celebration of the Software Freedom Day. Free Software and Open Source Software is at the basis of most [...]