Montreal Tech Watch

Congratulations to Stéphane Daury who developed with two other wordpress hackers the plugin for the iPhone! You can now download it at wordpress.org, it provides a new user interface to a wordpress blog, which is suitable to the iPhone’s touchscreen capabilities. There was a prize, which is a shiny new iPhone for each for them, [...]

Yesterday was the november edition of the monthly Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, a casual meetup where montréalers interested in entrepreneurship could meet, connect and talk about their projects, an initiative which was started by Ben Yoskovitz. Some new people I met: Pierre-Antoine Fradet comes from Québec city but has started now an internet company in [...]

Quick plug: We are holding an open meeting tomorrow wednesday at 6pm, at Laika, 4040 bvd St-Laurent about the upcoming Blitzweekend. If you have questions, if you want to be in the organisation team, if you are looking for other team members, if you want to know about what we are planning for the event, [...]

I would never blog about Silicon Valley initatives, because there are bloggers who are way more resourceful than I am in this game. However, Google’s Android SDK is interesting from a Québec perspective. The whole story is that Google is moving into the mobile networking industry with a framework that allows any third-party developers to [...]

Seeing how Carl Mercier and Mat Balez managed to get on techcrunch and on the frontpage of digg last week, I was curious to see how other startups were doing on blogs. The following map shows Montréal startups and new websites; with the size showing the total number of trackbacks they had for the last [...]

Before the Karabunga team started montrealonrails.com, ruby on rails programmers were unheard of in Montréal, with startups like standoutjobs having a hard time to find “ruby gurus”. However, 35 people showed up for the first meetup, some experienced, some just curious about what’s up with all the excitement around the framework. Currently, Python development is, [...]

Sébastien Provencher writes about the mainstream media’s fear of Facebook’s SocialAds. All I have to say is that if you are not sure about Facebook observing your social behaviour and serving ads based on information taken from your profile, then here is a simple way to solve it: Hit save, and voilà, you’ve just become [...]

Non, Montreal Tech Watch n’est pas engadget, mais comme je l’ai annoncé auparavant, les technologies mobiles sont en pleine croissance. Comme on m’a offert récemment de tester un téléphone de Bell Mobilité, le LG Shine, c’était une occasion de tester le concept. À en croire leur dépliant, chaque nouveau cellulaire serait capable d’envoyer des courriels, [...]

I was yesterday at FacebookCampMontréal, an initiative by Sylvain Carle, CTO and cofounder of Praized. Developers and marketers were invited to brainstorm about facebook at the SAT, and boy… it looked like every other marketing agency in Montréal had one representative there. Now this is not a report about what happenned at the event, but [...]

Defensio is now live, with stickers, pastel colors and all sorts of web2.0 goodness. The new service promises to end spam if you are a blogger of if you manage a CMS. One of its mean features is that spam will be ranked by spamminess, allowing you to have a better view of potential spam [...]