StartupDrinks was awesome yesterday. It was easily the best event I’ve been to in Montreal lately. Thousand thanks to QuebecValley, MontrealStartup, RedNod, NorthGeek, MontrealPython, Alexis Smirnov, VC-TV, Austin Hill who wrote and buzzed about the event. The evening was great, with people coming up with great new exciting projects and startups. We had the pleasure [...]
Upcoming: StartupDrinks & Project HackersSpace
This is short-notice, but we’ve got 2 excellent meetups this week: We are holding a Montreal StartupDrinks wednesday 30th July from 6pm, at Café des Éclusiers again. The place is located at 400 rue de la Commune Ouest. It’s at the end of the old port near the St-Laurent. We had the last StartupsDrinks there [...]
Building a profitable business
I’ve just read a post by Mark MacLeod who tells how business models for web-based companies have evolved during the past few years. Once upon a time, technology companies built products and sold them… How times have changed. First, vendors started getting SaaSy… Then we stopped making users pay. At least not everyone. Freemium has [...]
Apple Frenzy on Ste-Catherine
I am at the new Apple store on Ste-Catherine street and I can see 30 vendors in blue and orange T-Shirts, all cheering madly, and high-fiving people entering the store, giving T-Shirts away and making customers and Montrealers who waited for the store’s opening feel like they’ve just won the gold medal or finished a [...]
Reasonably Smart Platform, a cloud computing platform for web app developers
I remember asking my brother a while ago what programming language people would still use in 10 years. I was suggesting Ruby, and since he’s into .NET, I thought he’d say C# or asp. To my surprise, Javascript was his immediate answer. That was before words like AJAX or javascript libraries were mainstream. Javascript is [...]
Invisible, a new web framework
Mini … minimalism Marc-André Cournoyer has just published Invisible (link to the GitHub repository), a ruby web framework that aims to be as minimalist and compact as possible, with the core code taking 2k lines. Yes, you’ve read it well, it’s a web framework and it’s under 2000 lines of code. In comparison, in other [...]
Apple Flagship Store opens Sainte-Catherine Street, Friday
For those who are into Apple products, a brand-new Apple flagship store will open its doors this Friday, at 5pm, 1321 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest. Apple flagship stores are known for their superior customer service & experience, within a distinctive lush store, much alike the attention to detail found in their computer and electronic products. Another [...]
Wireless spectrum auction closed; Quebecor and Globalive come in as new players
WirelessNorth, which tracked the national wireless auctions for the past months, sums up the result of the auctions, which were setup by Industry Canada to provide additionnal bandwidths to new and existing wireless companies. The 3 existing telecommunication companies, namely Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus won additional frequencies in most provinces. Rogers Wireless alone brought [...]
Akoha seeking a community manager
Austin Hill has a few poeticpassionnate words to woo a potential community manager at upcoming social gaming startup akoha.org When you walk past, crying babies begin to burble. You call people and they hear a smile over the phone. Your emails cause people to forget their troubles. When friends ask for help, you’re always willing [...]
Back!
For those who were not aware, MontrealTechWatch was down from yesterday early morning till 8.00pm today 17th of July. It might seem normal and in the-order-of-things that the server comes back; for most sys admins, it’s just a matter of opening a ticket and the tech support would restart somehow the whole thing. But this [...]
