Montreal Tech Watch

Company: Enquiro Position: Experienced Search Marketing Strategist (SEO) Responsibilites and Tasks: Are you passionate about Search Engine Optimization? Have you demonstrated your ability to bring value to clients through effective organic Search Marketing campaigns and are looking for a new challenge as part of an organization with exciting growth plans? If you said “yes” to [...]

Company: Tabbi Media Position: CTO / Co-Founder Responsibilites and Tasks: About US The Company is a retail mobile marketing start-up with a focus in the emerging Point-of-choice market (Point where a customer chooses between different items in a physical environment). Engaging with customers at that point allows for cross-sale and up-sale opportunity in an interactive [...]

As told by netfirms sponsor, WordPress is the #1 installed blogging and cms software. It has been embraced by corporations, consultants, SMBes, but also big publishing companies such as Wall Street Journal or LeMonde.fr. I know it’s my #1 recommended software for anyone wanting a web presence, with a website and a template up up [...]

Tungle, which offers a collaborating calendaring software, launched today a website questioning the state of current calendars. A series of videos and texts tells us how existing calendars are just software representations of paper calendars and how they do not help us in our daily online life. The videos stars Marc Gingras, founder of Tungle, [...]

Company: Nexalogy Environics Position: Sales Director in the social media intelligence sector Responsibilites and Tasks: Starting date: TBD Closing date for applications: September 3, 2010 Compensation: $48 000 – $65 000 plus performance-based bonus, including sales commission Other skills: Full time position requiring occasional travel within North America Fully bilingual with strong French and English [...]

The last 3 weeks were quite calm on MontrealHackers.com since most of the hackers (including me) took some time off during these weeks. Nevertheless, here is a few interesting posts that I enjoyed reading during that time: Jonathan Palardy explains how to use Bundler in a non-Rails app. Jérôme Gravel-Niquet, the creator of Ostrich, gives [...]

MontrealOuvert, announced a couple of weeks ago, is a new promising initiative promoting open access to public data. In an ideal world, data produced or monitored by different municipal or government bodies in Montréal would all be made available freely to citizens and businesses. This would lead to data re-use, data mashups, new applications used [...]

Partner: Erik Yeargan at Innobec Ventures Position:Partner with iPad Dev Experience Responsibilites and Tasks: I am looking for a partner with iPad development experience/interest to help build version 1.0 of a design-driven application for launch by October 1st. This version is short and sweet, but will allow the project to bootstrap future releases. Requirements: Objective [...]

Compangnie: BlueStreak Technology Position: Embedded Flash Developer Responsabilités: Bluestreak, société développant un moteur Flash pour systèmes embarqués, recherche pour sa division technique mobile et STB un “développeur Flash embarqué”, ayant également des connaissances en HTML5, qui voudrait se joindre à son équipe basée à Montréal. Cette personne rejoindra une société en pleine croissance afin de [...]

PodCampMontréal, Montréal’s biggest social media conference is in one month ahead, sept 11th and 12th. The event is organized as a camp, meaning everyone is invited to present, all in informal settings. The format has been proven successful, with sessions ranging from blog marketing, social media monetization to discussions on the future of media, or [...]