I am giving a quick shout out to CakeMail which has now an additionnal language (Russian) for the email marketing software. I really like their efforts in localization. Montreal may not have Silicon Valley’s hot weather and certainly not the same level of activity of technology entrepreneurship but one of its true strengths lies in its diversity and its bilingual (if not trilingual or more) population. Bravo then to the CakeMail team!
CakeMail now offered in 8 local versions
By Heri Oct 24th 2007 in Business-
Picture From Today’s Startup Weekend
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Montreal Hosts Youtube Association for Content Creators
Many get curious about instant fame that some YouTube videos get. But few dig deep and try to understand the intricacies of the elusive “something somethingness” that these videos seem to possess. This is what Aimee Davison is after and she’s been sharing her insights at speaking gigs like Ignite Montreal as well as well [...]
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Startups and students feedback at CUSEC
This post was originally posted on Louis-Philippe Huberdeau’s blog, co-founder of new hiring startup hirevoice. It’s hot on the trails of an earlier MTW blog post We learned a lot at CUSEC this year. However, for the first time, it was not from presentations. The first presentation I watched entirely was on Saturday, when we [...]


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Duncan Moore October 25, 2007
Just to clarify, though: 5 of the 8 localizations are still in progress. Of course, we expect to add many more as time goes on!
At some point post-launch, we’ll be sharing a few thoughts about our experience with localization. It does add new layers to development, but the benefits far outweigh the extra effort involved. Et c’est très bien comme ça !