Montreal Tech Watch

I am not about to write a retrospective of 2007, but what I think is necessary is to thank everyone who contributed to making Montréal a vibrant tech community. Thanks to Mehdi Akiki, Claire Bu, Mat Balez, Frank Lamontage, Scott Lake, Victoria Revay from nowpublic, Samuel Bouchard who all contributed to Montreal Tech Watch. Thanks [...]

Roberto Rocha is doing a fun poll and asking who is Montréal’s “sexiest geek” You can vote for Jade Raymond, Casey Mckinnon, Fred Ngo, Katheline Jean-Pierre, Skull Mogensen, Nadia G. I voted for Jade Raymond for objective reasons (or not…), which is there should be more women in technology, and because she did a great [...]

A codeFest is a weekend sprint where programmers gather to add features to web applications. Last year’s codeFest theme was openID, and was reported to be very successful. The upcoming codeFest is planned Jan 5th and 6th, and the topic is to add microformats to your favourite applications. It is hosted at La Bande Passante, [...]

Meet Blitzmaker, which is a new website aiming to gather developers, designers, entrepreneurs and more, who wish to build an online profile and build teams for their upcoming projects. (example of a profile) The website in itself came up from the upcoming Blitzweekend, where we had open-ended discussions, and where we agreed that participants needed [...]

InPowr, the web2.0 startup that wants to help their users progress in their life, has signed a deal with sympatico / msn which will feature their service to sympatico users. The portal is Bell Sympatico’s, and has over 650.000 unique visitors monthly.  I find it smart because it will be offered to the visitors in a time where [...]

I have added 13 new companies/startups/service providers to the technology map of montréal. Some noteworthy additions: Embrase, Syntenic, La Fabrique des blogs, yulnews, markettiger I have also updated the notes corresponding to each marker, with more info about the address, description, contact details etc.. However, most of the markers don’t have any now. If you [...]

Note by Heri: this is an original and innovative ad. See the puzzle at the end. Company: Neo Henry Ware Position: Wanted: Master Software Developers Responsibilites and Tasks: 01/18/2008 1. You’re an artist, and software is how you express yourself. 2. You believe there’s always a better way of doing things. 3. You embrace positive [...]

The first release of tickets for StartupCampMontréal were sold out, so there is now a second release, as always avalaible on eventBrite. If you plan to attend the event, you should get your ticket now, as the first batch were all grabbed within 24 hours. On related news, we will have Graham Hill as a [...]

Company: CakeMail Position: Deliverability Manager Responsibilites and Tasks: We recently doubled the staff at our Montreal office with the addition of a sales and account management team, and welcomed an additional programmer to our development group in Eastern Europe. This brings us to a total of 11 people in the combined family of The Code [...]

Looking back at the archives here on Montreal Tech Watch, there were days where I wrote 4 or 5 articles per day. Things have changed, as right now, I find myself busy with other projects and other personal adventures :-) This is not to say tough there isn’t anything happenning in Montréal as I am [...]