Montreal Tech Watch

Internet permet une plus grande participation de tous à plusieurs égards. Samedi prochain, une vingtaine de personnes se réuniront en après-midi à la Station C à Montréal pour des démonstrations, discussions et enfin une session de codage pour un projet de l’association canadienne Visible Goverment. Les démontrations se feront sous la forme d’un “Speed geeking [...]

The holiday seasons are quickly approaching.   With the growing concern over the economy and how it affects startups and the technology industry I’ve recently spoken with a number of startup founders who are looking for cost effective ideas for holiday parties. Despite the doom & gloom over the economy, our community has a number of [...]

Reposted: There’s a StartupDrinks planned today wednesday 26th Nov., from 5.30pm, at Reservoir, 9 Duluth East.  StartupDrinks gathers everyone interested by tech entrepreneurship in Montreal. It’s an informal event which gathers every month the community, and where you can share your projects, talk about challenges, new technologies, and meet other entrepreneurs starting new compagnies.  Subscribe [...]

As promised, there’s a new map of Montreal. These were removed: capazoo bluestreak tech (it’s a 5-year old company) jestai simon law tarantella (service provider doing pretty much everything) radiorfid (unavailable website) s2i (same as tarantella) jeffery thomas, blue chip services (nothing on website) navilon (no website avalaible) mp3.net, was announced as “launching imminently” a [...]

In two weeks from now, I’m going to be at LeWeb08 to present Silentale during the Startup Challenge. Since I’m a Montrealer at heart, I would like to take this opportunity to reach out to all MontrealTechWatch readers that are going to be in Paris for the conference and try to organize a little get [...]

Facebook won yesterday a case against Adam Guerbuez, and his “company”, Atlantis Blue Capital. Facebook sued under the CAN-SPAM (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) Act, and was awared $873 million US in damages. Adam Guerbuez stole user credentials on varous phishing websites he setup, and then used those login information to spam Facebook users [...]

Xtranormal (see beta review) which launched with much fanfare a little over a month ago has laid off today 36, which is half of its staff. Xtranormal invested heavily in research & development efforts in the past year, understandable since they were tackling a new challenge, user-produced videos, but this mass layoff shows lack of [...]

For all those who miss the famous StartupDrinks, and also for those who haven’t had the chance to come to one, we’re doing one next wednesday, at Reservoir, 26th of Nov. The venue is Reservoir, 9 Duluth East, and we’ve got all the second flour to ourselves. Signup at TechEntreprise if you want to come [...]

FluidSurveys, a web application from Chide.it, has relaunched last week. Its major selling point is the application’s user interface, which has been designed to be intuitive and user-friendly. Aydin Mirzaee, who runs Chide.it, says that in other survey/polling software, creating a survey takes hours while it only requires a few minutes on FluidSurveys. FluidSurveys is [...]

Joshua Koopferstock has done a mashup listing all upcoming rock/indie/pop concerts in Montreal at MusiqueMusicMontreal. Joshua does the role of curator, adding a tune for every planned music band. I don’t always have time to individually research and preview each and every band that is playing in Montreal (there are over 130 in the next [...]