Montreal Tech Watch

WatchMojo videos viewed 50 millions times

Continuing on its growth for the past two years (WatchMojo’s videos viewed 33,333,333+ times WatchMojo now #1 content producer on Youtube Canada), WatchMojo has announced their videos have been viewed 50 million times across the networks the web video upstart is distributing its content to (Hulu, Youtube, Myspace, Yahoo! etc.) Congrats to the WatchMojo team [...]

All-Expenses paid travelling & blogging across Canada

Victoria Revay, who wrote the famous post Vancouver: Canada’s Greatest Start-Up City? is looking for French-speakingFrench-writing bloggers who would want to traval across Canada this upcoming summer and blog about it: There is a fantastic “job” opportunity for a social media maven or maverick to consider. If you’re a blogger, writer, interested in creative writing [...]

Status.net to offer paid hosted micro-blogging applications for companies

In a blog post listing all the technical features, Evan Prodromou is revealing the next big step for identi.ca and the laconi.ca microbblogging software, which is to offer a paid hosted instances of the laconica software at status.net. In the same way that organizations around the world now uses communication software such as email or [...]

Data Centers in Montreal

Interesting video showing a data center in Montreal operated by iWeb I visited 2 years ago another iWeb data center; and what a change since then. More videos seen here.

Web 2.0 Expo: Making Money

San Francisco is a cold and windy place this year. Even though O’Reilly’s European conference got canceled, attendance here is visibly reduced. There are fewer booths, fewer attendees, the parties offer a little more room to breathe than a year ago. We were still technically in a recession last year, a year of record attendances, [...]

Xobni raises additional $3.2 million from Blackberry Partners Fund

Xobni, a startup offering a power plugin for Microsoft Outlook, announced last week 2 major news: their software is now officially out of beta, after 10 months of beta-testing, and the Blackberry Partners Fund has added $3.2 million in their series B round. The main investor remains CISCO, which puts in $7 million. See original [...]