Cozimo, whic was featured both at DEMO 08 and StartupCamp, and which offers a real-time collaboration service to work on digital media, has an interesting new plugin that also allows collaboration on wordpress blogs, or any website for that matter. I thought that a simple demonstration would be more efficient than trying to explain what [...]
A peek at startups — ft Standoutjobs, Defensio, and Rollaname
Continued from the previous post showing pictures of Praized, Mobivox, Watchmojo, and also Hugh McGuire’s setup This is Fred Ngo‘s work desk. Fred Ngo is CTO at Standoutjobs. Interestingly, almost all of them use macbook pros, and you can also notice that they heavily rely on basecamp/campfire for tech development. Karabunga‘s founder is Carl Mercier. [...]
Report: GameCamp
I went last wednesday to GameCamp — mostly because it was the first edition. This post is not much a report about the presentations, I’ll leave this to the more informed Michel, but more a comparison of the “Web/Entrepreneur” vs “video games” community. What I’ve seen is the Web people we see in Barcamps and [...]
Standoutjobs partners with CUhire to offer career sites for credit unions
Standoutobs, which aims to help companies find key talent, announced they have now a new partner, CUhire, a company dedicated on helping credit unions on their recruiting efforts. I thought that this was a smart business move, in the sense that CUhire is certainly more knowledgeable and more resourceful when it comes to their industry [...]
Nomad giving up on wimax plans – Bell and Rogers still king of the hill
Canoe reports that Nomad is giving up on its project to install a city-wide wimax network because of the high costs. Nomad announced with Radioactif last year that they would market a mobile high-speed internet plan to 90% of Montréalers, along with a voip and digital TV plan. Nomad was then presented as the technical [...]
iNovia launches 2nd venture capital fund, at $107 million
iNovia Capital has announced officially the launch of a new fund, iNovia II, a $107 million seed and early stage venture capital fund. The new fund is targeted at information technology, life sciences and cleantech emerging companies, based in Canada, and also the US. The fund was gathered from institutional investors, labor funds, government agencies: [...]
LavaBlast’s story, or how two students created a successful software company from scratch
LavaBlast, which was started one year ago, markets a series of tools for franchise owners, letting them to centralize operations with franchisees, taking care of sales, accounting and stock management. The “microISV”, as the founders like to call it, follows Joel Spolsky’s philosophy, which is 1 – build a profitable company from day 1, and [...]
Alliance Numerique finally launches blog section, still a long way to go
Alliance Numérique has inaugurated today their blog section, with 3 authors coming from Alliance Numérique, and a fourth contributor coming from Strataction, a strategy consulting firm. Alliance Numérique holds an enviable position as the main business network for everyone in the multimedia and video games industry in Quebec. Their new blog section leaves a lot [...]
Scheme for the novice and beyond, Thursday March 27th
Guillaume Germain from the Montreal Scheme / Lisp User Group is writing: The MSLUG is having a meeting this week. Marc Feeley, professor at Université de Montréal, will give a tutorial on Scheme and an introduction to more advanced features anduses of Scheme and the Gambit-C implementation. What: Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group Meeting — Scheme [...]
Apple’s flagship store in Montréal
If you are a mac fan, then this should rejoice you: This is a recent picture of construction currently going on for Apple’s store in 1321 Ste-Catherines street. Photo taken by MacEtMoi, which tracks construction of the store. It will take 2 floors, and most likely will have Apple’s signature (glass, transparent architecture, aluminium, etc.) [...]
