This might look as a last-minute recall (unless you are on twitter or facebook), but if you are into technology and startups, we’ve got a cocktail/get-together/startupdrinks at 5pm, at Café Santos, 191 St Paul Street. Everyone welcomed! More about the concept The Facebook event page
Tanya McGinnity on Montreal Girl Geek Dinners
When Tanya McGinnity first told me about her idea, I was thrilled. Who wouldn’t be? The premise is simple: find a girl geek to speak about an exciting project, hunt down a restaurant that will host a group dinner, and let people mix. Now simple as that sounds, it isn’t easy to organize. So after [...]
Mobile Web 2.0 is coming
The Web 2.0 Expo revealed the ever-growing fascination with everything mobile. An expert in the field of Mobile Design, Brian Fling declared that the iphone is already 0.09% of all web traffic.This may be true . Remember, not long ago Google announced that it had 50 times more searches on iphone than on any other [...]
StartupIndex aims to be the database for Canadian startups and investors
StartupIndex.ca was unveiled this evening at StartupCampToronto. It’s a joint effort by Jevon MacDonald, Jonas Brandon, Ali Asaria and Chris Long, and provides a crowd-sourced database of Canadian startups and investors. StartupIndex has already in its database most Canadians startups and VC funds, and paints a broad picture of the Internet / ecommerce / web2.0 [...]
Ted Rogers should get a twitter account
The Rogers group announced their Q1 results this morning, all very good news, great revenue by user, etc. And then Ted Rogers announced they’ll have the iPhone on their product line this year, in Canada. The announcement in itself is less than 3 lines, and I refuse to speculate or add anything to the announcement. [...]
SmartHippo’s new advisory board; plans to foster an online community
SmartHippo has announced an advisory board, with Lori Collins, former VP and General Manager for LendingTree, Bill Rice, CEO of Kaleidico, and John Philip Green, Founder of LearnHub. The first 2 advisors are in the same vertical as SmartHippo, while the last one has created an online community for education, and also advises community lend. [...]
Akoha gets $1.9 million angel investing
Akoha has announced this morning $1.9 million in funding from various angel investors. The list of investors include David Chamandy (Lavalife), John Bromley, JS Cournoyer, Ron Dembo (Zerofootprint.net), Jake Eberts (film producer), Alan Gershenfeld (E-Line Ventures, Games for Change), John Meeks, Reg Weiser, Jonathan Wener, Rober Montgomery (Achilles Media), Chris Emergui (BAM Strategy), and Montreal [...]
OneBigPlanet launches, provides monetization platform for “social networks”
OneBigPlanet has launched this morning, with a live videocast where they unveiled their product, and announced the first customers using the platform. OneBigPlanet promises to have the answer on how to monetize social networks and also solve the problem of high membership turn-over on those websites. What the platform does essentially is offer a wide [...]
Thinking about startupping? Please share your thoughts about the local startup scene!
The Montreal startup scene, Blitzweekend, 2nd March 2008 There is a great thread at Hacker news about the best place to startup now, outside of the U.S. Hacker news is a social news website designed for the “ycombinator community”, and has been hailed by many (Michael Arrington among others) as a leading source of news [...]
StartYourTube is Ning for Youtube
StartYourTube is a new video platform, launched 2 weeks ago by Mark Bruneau (formerly CEO of Adventis & Bell Canada) and Daniel Robicheau (formerly Streamtheworld, also running Neotechcapital). Their bet is that many want now to start their own community around videos, without mingling with mainstream video websites the likes of Youtube or Dailymotion. StartYourTube [...]
