Montreal Tech Watch

Fred Brunel has a teaser and an introduction about Reportage on his blog Reportage works with the way you already tend to use Twitter; by firstly, scanning for the avatar of people you care most about and then browsing for second tier interest people. We’ve leveraged the ability of your brain to quickly recognize faces, [...]

Poly9, the same company known for its famous 3D browser globe, has released last week mapspread, a web service which lets anyone to manage geographical data, in an easy to use interface. In the same way that Google Maps democratized maps, mapsread democratizes advanced mapping features, the typical use case being the case of organizations [...]

First day of the Web 3.0 Conference here in New York City where the name of the game is to be the biggest possible fish in the smallest possible pond, fast. What is Web 3.0 ? About 100 attendees are gathered here to try to hammer out a convenient definition. Web 3.0 draws inspiration from [...]

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Deux articles bien écrits dans Le Devoir aujourd’hui: La fracture numérique, Faire d’Internet un service essentiel, via @pgmartin. 2 phrases-clés cités de ces articles: En cinq ans, le Canada est passé du 9e au 19e rang mondial en matière de technologies de l’information et des communications … Après avoir bombé le torse, au milieu des [...]

php Québec organized Codefest 3.0, a 3 day event where programmers are invited to work on their open source project, share their work. This time, it was sponsored by Microsoft Canada (their office in Toronto), and was held at a Helm Café, on Bernard Street. There’s something striking seeing 20 or so php programmers each [...]

Thanks to everyone who went to StartupDrinks, we had a good turnout (about 70-80), and as usual great conversations, with people staying up to 10pm and then afterwards to the (usual) late night restaurant dinner nearby. I was planning to discuss about Blitzweekend and also the ongoing talks about having a digital and physical tech [...]

Chris Arsenault wrote about the unique opportunity for technology startups in a recent post on MontrealTechWatch, when the provincial budget was announced. The new fund was announced shortly afterwards, named Teralys, with a capital of $825million, coming from FSTQ, La Caisse de dépôt, and Investissement Québec, as well as $125m to come from private sources. [...]

There are 6 “big” upcoming tech events in Montreal this upcoming week, one of the busiest weeks in recent times. Either you’re in marketing, in development, in social media, or into startups, there’s an event for you this week to meetup. A group of programmers and developers from the SAT are doing Code Forum monday [...]