Community Updates: 5th Jan

By Heri Jan 5th 2009 in Design

Updates, news about Montréal and technology:

Mtl new tech is calling for entrepreneurs and startups to demo their startups and projects. (link)
First impressions of Colektivo at StartupNorth
Colektivo has a facebook group
yourteledoctor has a facebook group too
Comparison between print, television and the Internet at the iWeb blog
the updated Montréal startup index at TechVibes, with web startups ranked by traffic. Techvibes also does rankings for many other cities. It’s an exhaustive work, although I do question the methodology. Traffic != reach != engagement
The Ontario Ministry of Research And Innovation announced funding for of up to $500,000 for 8 new companies. What’s up, Québec?
ZeroRiskShopping.ca has launched. Ok this was a while ago, not today, but you still should have a look.
Microsoft Blue Sky competition for the so-many startuppers using MS technology

As stated previously, send a tweet to @mtw if you spot a newsworthy technology

Intellitix provides rfid access to Coachella

#coachella
twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away?

Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]
AccelerateMTL : more than just a conference

AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other Internet execs. View more on the eventbrite page. As the name suggests, the presentations were curated to accelerate startups. [...]