Joyent, a cloud computing provider, acquired Reasonably Smart Platform last week. If you have been to local startup events or if you’ve been on identi.ca/twitter, you’ve surely bumped into Bryan Bogensberger and James Duncan, the two co-founders of the RSP platform, who were looking for funding and partners, after setting up an “alpha” website. Here [...]
Airborne Mobile Announces $2 Million Growth financing round
Airborne and iNovia Capital announced last week a $2million financing round. Airborne is a Montreal tech company producing mobile tools and applications, with a very diverse product line, from games, SMS apps, to wallpapers, ringtones and mobile marketing tools. The financing round by iNovia Capital has been presented by both companies as a renewal, after [...]
The Economic Crisis Sucks; What You Can Do About it
Hard Facts From the beginning, I’ve considered the “crisis” as a strictly US financial problem. A handful of financial giants which bet in the real-estate market were to go under, Wall Street would have re-organized itself, ill credit would have been written off, and then the rest of the economy and the world would be content [...]
Job Listing: Front-End Developer at CultureCafé
Culture Café (culturecafe.com) is a social media startup allowing people interested in connecting with a cultural heritage, but living in a place where this culture is not dominant, to find other people and resources from that culture. The goal of Culture Café is to become the most recognized brand on the web for obtaining cultural [...]
Community Updates: 5th Jan
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 [...]
New Articles: Community Updates, tidbits-sized
While I was writing those articles, it struck me how practical for me (and the reader) they are. It’s an objective list of what’s up in Montréal, and could get people in the lopp, without necessarily reading long reviews or without me spending one hour or more to write an article. In the age of [...]
Ubisoft Named One of the Best Studios of 2008
Esteemed game industry web-magazine Gamasutra has named Ubisoft Montreal as one of its top 5 game developers of 2008. They share the recognition with Valve (Left4Dead, Portal), Bethesda (Fallout 3), MediaMolecule (LittleBigPlanet), and “independant game developers”. Reviews and opinions for Ubisoft’s recently released Prince of Persia and Far Cry 2 have been mixed, but, as Gamasutra [...]
Updates & Links
A few “community updates” that I overlooked in previous posts: There’s a discussion on hacker news about colektivo, a new crowdsourced fund for entrepreneurs and businesses [disclosure: I'm involved in this] there’s a php Québec workshop January 8th, with Philipe Gamache who will demo symfony, and then a Q&A session for the upcoming php Québec [...]
Overnight Web Startup, twtpoll
Felipe Coimbra has launched 2nd of January twtpoll, a web service which allows twitter users to have a poll functionality for their followers. The service in itself is not innovative in itself (there are dozens of web polls available out there); what’s interesting though is that he did the design and implemention in one night, [...]
Montréal Tech Events, lineup for the next 6 weeks
For those who want to get into the loop, here’s the line-up of technology events in Montréal: FreeHackers Montréal is for developers, technology hackers. It’s a meetup planned for Saturday afternoon next week, 10th January, from 12.30pm. It’s organized by me with Bolidea hosting the event. All developers of all horizons are warmly invited to [...]
