Montreal Tech Watch

Blitzweekend is due tomorrow Friday 29th, and needless to say we are very excited for this event. If you have missed it, here are a quick list of the people who are going, a list of blogs/media outlets who mentionned Blitzweekend. We also had Computer World interviewing the “team”, and their article got published in [...]

Via Stéphane Guérin, je viens de lire un billet de Christian Pouliot, qui se présente comme entrepreneur web. Apparement, il a eu sa overdose de Twitter, blogs, del.icio.us, RSS, flickr, facebook, myspace, et qu’il en a assez de suivre les trackbacks, les abonnés à son blogue, et le traffic de son site… Sauf si vous [...]

WordAns just launched last month, and it’s a design-it-yourself T-Shirt shop. It’s started by 3 montréalers who organized a design competion last June, entitled “Rock your Wear”, in which they got the initial designs. They are betting though on unique designs submitted by any user, who can upload their own creations, choose a “base” T-Shirt/hoodie, [...]

Company: McGill University Position: Web Programmer Responsibilites and Tasks: Provide consulting expertise to the University community and high level information systems support and services that enhance and maintain the University’s existing central systems; and provide local area network management services for a wide variety of administrative and academic units, ensuring the security and confidentiality of [...]

Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developer’s Association and Montreal resident, was recently honoured with the Ambassador Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards. The award was given to Jason in recognition of his efforts towards “connecting developers with their peers, promoting professional development and advocating on issues such as quality of [...]

Austin Hill writes that there is a Anges Financiers Gala planned this upcoming thursday at Mount-Royal Center, 220 Mansfield Street, starting from 6.00pm The event aims at gathering young entrepreneurs and angels for an evening. The main feature of the gala would be a presentation made by 5 teams, which are finalists coming from all [...]

A new gameplay trailer for Fez, the 2D-no-wait-it’s-3D puzzle/exploration game primarily being developed in Montreal, was revealed earlier this week at the Independent Games Festival in San Francisco. The game involves navigating a 3D world from various 2D perspectives. Puzzles and obstacles are overcome by rotating the world and shifting your 2D character’s plane of [...]

Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Optimization, aka SEO and SMO, are relatively new fields in marketing, and as such, are often overlooked by most people when launching a new service or a new product. I also know quite a handful of web people in Montreal who don’t understand SEO and see them as gimmicks [...]

I caught the reports that the Sécurité du Québec and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided 12 locations early wednesday, and arrested 16 “hackers” who allegedly were running through a botnet more than one million PCs tlocated in Manitoba, US, Brazil and Poland. If you go through the news reports, this is all very spectacular. [...]

OK. Here’s the catch. We view Blitzweekend as a grassroots events. However, people were requesting everyday information, so I am publishing now what we have for Blitzweekend, due next week. This is not a final schedule for the event; and you can view it as a BarCamp wiki page, which just gives an idea of [...]