Here is Ben Yoskovitz‘s presentation of Standoutjobs. I have already reviewed Standoutjobs; in this video, Ben explains why companies needs RECEPTION and how they can manage and present their company to candidates. It’s a great, although very quick, presentation of Standoutjobs, and I encourage you to view it. I wish we could have more of [...]
xtranormal wins DEMOgod award
xtranormal won a DEMOgod award yesterday for their presentation of the service (from Maple Leaf 2.0)Congratulations to the company & team! Last year, another Montreal startup, Tungle, won also a DEMOgod award thanks to the charismatic Marc Gingras.
xtranormal showcases tool to create 3D scenes and characters
xtranormal just gave a sneak peak of their technology to bloggers and conference attendees at DEMO. Webware has a great review of the product In the demo I saw last night, Xtranormal’s Paul Nightingale wrote a simple script, where he wrote a few lines for two characters, added some emotion tags and gestures, and put [...]
Local business bloggers launch yulbiz.org and extends model to Europe
yulbiz, which started as a regular meetup for bloggers writing for business purposes, has now an official website and become an official organisation. Like other similar meetups in Montreal, yulbiz uses the acronym yul — representing Montreal’s aiport code, and was started to extend online conversations between bloggers to an “offline” setting. The formula prooved [...]
“Le temps d’agir!”
Hélène Desmarais, qui dirige le Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal, a publié aujourd’hui une lettre dans le journal de son papa La Presse, qui souligne le manque de capital d’amorcage pour les entrepreneurs en technologie. Elle s’appuie notamment les résultats de l’étude du Secor. Dans la période 2006-2007, on aurait eu seulement 8 projets [...]
An open workshop for sound hackers and artists
oboro, which is a center focusing on interaction between art and new media, is starting a workshop mysteriously named : “Du tangible à l’intangible et vice-versa: un laboratoire ouvert sur les artefacts sonores” The goal of the workshop is to make interactive stuff that responds to human interaction, via sound. If any of you is [...]
omg me please – or how we got ourselves another ruby guru
James Golick has setup a “reddit” for ruby-related news and articles. It follows reddit’s last week announcement that they will allow its members to create sub-reddits centered around “niche” communities. In practice, this means ruby.reddit.com will stay focused and on-topic, contrary to the main reddit page or other social news websites, such as digg.com, which [...]
Standoutjobs raises $2 million from iNovia Capital
Standoutjobs has announced they received a 2 million $ funding from iNovia Capital, which does seed and early stage venture capital investments. This is a significant investment and speaks in itself about Standoutjobs’s team’s skills and continuous efforts. This is also the first major move from iNovia that I know of, after they relaunched from [...]
Standoutjobs unveils a suite to empower a company’s recruiting efforts
Fred Ngo and Ben Yoskovitz, two of the startup’s co-founders, are presenting standoutjobs today at DEMO, a high-profile conference for technology startups in Northern California. Standoutjobs was started in March 2007 as a startup that would revolutionize the job market and give a way to companies to present themselves in a more attractive manner to [...]
StartupCampMontreal features cozimo, tungle, streametrics, igotcha and yourteledoctor
First, I would like to thank the folks at Embrase, who organized StartupCampMontreal. They approached me in early December, and even though they haven’t been to local democamps, barcamps or other events, were eager to organize a startupcamp. They delved in less than a month into the startups/bloggers/entrepreneurs world in Montreal, reached out to potential [...]
