When Ben Yoskovitz launched the first ever Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast in February last year, I decided a few hours after the breakfast to launch a blog about what’s happenning in technology in Montréal.
Today being the first-year anniversary of the tech breakfasts, which is held monthly (even if it’s -20C outside), it’s also MontrealTechWatch’s first-year anniversary.
Now, the first post was exactly the 18th of february, but that was mostly due to me playing around with different blogging platforms, and finally going for the easy way, which was blogger.
To celebrate this, I will begin a series for next few days, until the 18th, summing up what have been done here. This first post is going to cover all the maps, graphs, visualisation proejcts published here during the past 12 months.
The first of those was the Technology map of Montréal, which linked in a seemingly random way all web people and startups in Montreal. All of a sudden, people could see what were the similar bloggers, events and projects in the city.
The second was published a few weeks after the first map, but this time mapped to the STM network, using the metro and train stations. The map was much simpler, but I believe most readers prefer the chaotic feeling from the first map.
The third vizualisation project was with tag clouds, which showed how often Montréal bloggers mentionned certain keywords in their posts.
This didn’t get as much feedback as the first two maps, but nevertheless, I still find it interesting.
One of the last graphic for MontrealTechWatch was the different stages for startups.
Hopefully, we will get more graphics in the next year (xtranormal, I am looking at you). To wrap it all, here was a short video, done a while ago, which was made to keep people waiting around while the design was updated on the website.
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macournoyer February 12, 2008
Stephane Daury February 12, 2008
John Stokes February 12, 2008
Montreal Tech Watch February 12, 2008
MontrealTechWatch is (almost) 1 year old! http://tinyurl.com/yv8y8a
Denis Canuel February 12, 2008
Heri February 12, 2008
thanks a lot. it’s really appreciated. this couldn’t have been done without you guys.
here’s me hoping the next will be even better than the 1st one.
mehdi akiki February 12, 2008
Mark MacLeod February 13, 2008
Congrats on the one year milestone!
Mark
Jevon MacDonald February 13, 2008
Keep it up!
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Heri February 13, 2008
mark and jevon, thanks! I could sat exactly the same thing for you guys
techcfo and startupnorth rock!
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