Montreal Tech Watch

Matt Mullenweg (wordpress creator, @PHOTOMATT) and Jeremy Clarke (@jeremyclarke) at WordcampMontreal 2009, Photograph by EvaBlue WordCampMontreal (@wordcampmtl) is scheduled in exactly one month. As most of you already knows, it’s a camp for WordPress, the most used blogging and CMS software, the one that your uncle uses to post his travels, or the one that [...]

Company: iReel Position: Web and Facebook Application developer Responsibilites and Tasks: iReel, a company specializing in the development and marketing of high traffic web properties and a leader in its industry is searching for a Web and Facebook Application Developer. If you are passionate about the web, social media application development and you love to [...]

Ostrich, launched just a week ago, got one of the largest and comprehensive media coverage … well for a Montreal-based product that is. It has been covered on most Apple-focused and tech blogs, got noticed by John Gruber, and is now today featured on extensions.apple.com This page is brand-new and has just been published this [...]

Company: Recoset Position: Software developer Responsibilites and Tasks: Recoset is hiring a well-rounded software developer, responsible for putting our machine learning algorithms into production. Since this is a small team you must be versatile, with work ranging from adding new API features to automating deployment, monitoring and benchmarking. A large part of the day-to-day work [...]

2 weeks ago, there was a major post on MontrealTechWatch, which lead to lengthy discussions on Montréal’s potential as a technology hub. It’s great to see so many pitching in ideas and their thoughts on Montreal’s strengths. Many also suggested also mentorship programs, growing the tech community, getting global, getting more experienced entrepreneurs to talk [...]

Note: I am introducing a weekly and regular wrap-up listing new releases, mostly updates which couldn’t be covered in a regular article Here are noticeable releases this week: Vanilla 2 It’s a significant release, with significant work done on the add-on functionality and the core. Existing plugins, themes and other customizable features might not work [...]

NextMontreal.com is a new project instigated by Benjamin Yoskovitz, who called a few months ago for a news site in Montréal, and since then Phil Telio, Sylvain Carle and Patrick Tanguay have joined the project. As you will read Ben’s blog post, there is a focus on making NextMontreal a business, and also making it [...]

Company: Webwweller Position: Integrator/front End Web Developer – Facebook, Ruby on Rails, jQuery Responsibilites and Tasks: Are you passionate about web design and interested in social media and challenging ways for making user and content experience more interesting? Then we want to meet you Job Description: Work with team to design and implement webdweller.com create [...]

I met yesterday Yaniv Rivlin, who is responsible for the Comtribute’s launch, starting with a North American tour. Part 1 – Comtribute.com Comtribute.com launched this tuesday new tools allowing everyone to fund their favourite non-profit organization, without actually giving any money. Fans & friends are invited to install a toolbar, and also use a customized homepage, [...]

Company: StressLimitDesign Position: Full time Front End Developer / User-Experience Focused Web Generalist Responsibilites and Tasks: We need someone passionate about web design and programming, who truly believes that code is indeed poetry [or should be]. You should know css html javascript php + mysql enough to understand what not to do in the Front [...]