Montreal Tech Watch

Things have been speeding up here in Montréal lately; although I had plans to renew MontrealTechWatch in early 2008, I am advancing them for now:

• The biggest change you will see is that there will be from now on posts in french. The choice of the language will be depending on the topic. For instance, Defensio which is obviously targeting the english market, will be covered in English. However, if there are news about Bell offering a new product here in Montréal for example, this will be done in French. This change is driven mainly by the fact that Montréal is a bilingual city and that there are also many working in technology who only use French. Now, I will be exploring if it’s possible to make separate feeds for english / french content. Stay tuned for updates,
• Topics will also be broadened. The Internet is great, but I believe there is a huge area of growth in electronics, telecommunications, mobile technology (think OLPC, Blackberries, iPhone, openmoko, new displays etc.). There is also one thing that I would like to be covered here, which is web design in Montréal and in Québec. This is however something I don’t have full reach; if you work in web design, and if you are interested in writing posts, in english or in french, at Montreal Tech Watch, feel free to shout an email at news@montrealtechwatch.com,
• Events will now be covered live, on twitter, and there won’t be any reports from now on in Montreal Tech Watch, unless it’s to post pictures about the event, or write some final thoughts about the event’s organization. This is done mainly to save time, and I also believe this is where we are heading towards to in blogging. Also, writing reports about a meetup three or four days after an event doesn’t make it anymore,
• Finally, there is now a facebook group for Montréal Tech Watch. Join it to post links and videos, discuss entrepreneurship and news, know more Montréalers working in technology. My initial objective was to build some sort of crunchbase and “social networking” behind Montreal Tech Watch, but facebook just makes this sort of things easy

Those are not big announcements, more in the way how content will be organized and produced, by using the right tool and medium for the right content.