Montreal Tech Watch

The next edition of MTEB, a bi-monthly breakfast for tech entrepreneurs, instigated by Ben Yoskovitz from Standoutjobs, is due June 9th at Boccaccinos, 1251 McGill College. The event is sponsored by Nestor System and Sun Microsystems. It’s a great opportunity to chat and connect with another entrepreneur, angel, or a tech professionnal. Compared to StartupDrinks [...]

Come all to StartupDrinks today. It’s FREE and very simple: register here, come at Brutopia today, get a beer, meet people launching startups, share experiences (lessons, technology, hacking, or marketing, whatever you fancy) all in good, informal company.

Led by our dear friends Arach Tchoupani and Yannick Gingras, MontrealPython is today at La Banque, 175 Roy Est. MontrealPython7: Here is our schedule for the evening: 18h00: Opening 18h20: Announcements 18h30: Flash presentations 19h00: Break 19h20: Main presentation Our main presenter Olivier Bélanger on “Ounk, un environnement de scripting musical”.

Ça venait de @jeanlucs lundi. Oui encore une fois, un article qui n’a rien à avoir avec la technologie, et qui n’a rien à avoir avec Montréal, mais comme je suis en plein dans le marketing ces jours-ci, on a l’impression de se regarder dans un miroir, surtout la séquence dans la salle de contrôle. [...]

Buzzwords in a newly released product this morning: cloud twitter iphone mobility, location-based service app store apocalypse Yes, it’s reportage! (I’m sad there’s no mention of Facebook, that’s also a buzzword these days) Now available on the App Store

This is not exactly tech. Nevertheless, I’ll have to bow to George Favvas for pulling of this story: SmartHippo advises family on refinancing rates, and then congratulates them after getting the service with a home-delivered cake. Sounds one of the exceptional stories you used to read on Kathy Sierra’s blog (Creating Passionnate Users) or one [...]

What: The de-facto monthly meetup for Montreal Entrepreneurs, Technologists. Meet hackers, venture capitalists, angel investors, startup experts. It’s an informal, get-together, free, fun event where you can discover new projects, maybe find co-founders, maybe find resources for your next startup. It’s also the last StartupDrinks at Brutopia, folks! Who More than 70 people are expected, from the greater [...]

Felipe Coimbra released last monday twtBizCard, an add-on service which allows twitter users to exchange business contacts with replies, a virtual handshake if you like. The story is not so much about twtBizCard. Of course, the idea is interesting, since after all, LinkedIn does 15 million uniques a month. But for me, your twitter profile [...]

For those on WordPress, there’s an upcoming camp this summer, here in Montreal. This follows the successful WordCamp Toronto. WordPress has had a few interesting developments lately, namely the P2 theme, which turns it into a live-blogging/micro-blogging platform (see this for instance), as well as more elaborate products such as Buddypress, which gives it social [...]

A documentary film by Jack Oatmon. A look into the hardware hacking community in Montreal, including the Foulab collective. Why are more and more hobbyists experimenting with hacks and circuit bends? What relationship does this imply about consumer society and technological advancement? Is this a real-world analog of ‘user generated content’?