Yves Williams, a web entrepreneur, who is now doing AgentSolo, has a lengthy article about the need for the technology community in Quebec to gather and get the provincial government to come up with a digital plan in his blog. This follows a recent action by Montréal bloggers last autumn, who sent a letter to [...]
Upcoming: “The Next Generation Player” with Clint Hocking, Wed. 25th February
I don’t expect many MTW readers to choose this event over StartupDrinks, but for anyone who might be interested, this Wednesday at 7pm the IGDA and SAT (1195 St-Laurent) will be hosting Clint Hocking, Creative Director at Ubisoft. Admission is $5 at the door. The talk he’ll be giving is titled “The Next Generation Player”, [...]
Upcoming: Montréal StartupDrinks, Wed. 25th February
The guys at FlowVentures had the “scoop” on this one: the February edition of StartupDrinks is this week. For those late to the party, StartupDrinks are the de facto gathering of the Montreal Tech Community. Meet entrepreneurs, bloggers, investors, service providers, hackers, and pretty much involved in one way or another in startups. This time, [...]
Update on FreeHackers Montréal meetups
With Bolidea and Alok Mohindra (Arkalumen), we did a poll on how the last FreeHackers meetup went, to see how attendees felt about the event, the structure, if they liked it and what we could do to improve. (see original report here) You can see the public results of the poll here. Here’s one thing: [...]
SmartHippo adds 200 new lenders to its mortgage comparison engine; aims to bring more transparency
SmartHippo announced this week they have added 200 lenders to its database of mortgage lenders/brokers. SmartHippo uses a mix of data scrapping from public web pages, with also partnerships with mortgage lenders. Having more of of those lenders means more choices for mortgage shoppers, who can also add reviews and ratings to those lenders. As [...]
Got Water? Montreal Twestival tonight at Suco Lounge
Did you know that dirty water kills more people than ALL forms of violence, including war? Twestival Montreal is one of 175 cities around the world hosting an event today, Thursday, February 12th to raise money for charity: water. charity: water for Twestival from charity: water on Vimeo Charity: water puts 100% of money raised [...]
Thoughts
Number of the day: 58 millions mobile phone subscribers now in France, with 1 million having 3G access. That’s a penetration rate of 91.3%, while Canada is at 51.3%62% (last stats from cwta.ca). So one could think: Canadians don’t know about mobile phones, OR they are “culturally” attached to landlines, Canadian mobile carriers don’t know [...]
[upcoming] Montréal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, 10th Feb
This is a reminder, for those who haven’t seen the post on Ben Yoskovitz’s blog. The bi-monthly tech entrepreneur breakfast is next tuesday morning: The Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast will be on Tuesday, February 10th @ 8am. Here are the details: Who should attend? Anyone that’s into the tech and entrepreneur scenes in Montreal. That [...]
WebSense acquires Defensio
WebSense, a computer security firm, has announced it acquired Karabunga, makers of Defensio, a strong anti-spam system available for wordpress installs and to other web applications which would want to filter user-generated content. Financial details of the acquisition, which closed 31st Dec. 2008, were not disclosed. Carl Mercier, who founded Defensio, joins WebSense as director [...]
