Group scheduling software Tungle has just launched new options for its users, namely enabling them to customize their public pages, such as adding their own logos, colors, text, i.e. any branding visible to other people you are inviting, plus also favorite locations when setting up a meetup. This is a premium feature, which means it’s [...]
Upcoming: TapInTuesday with Marc Gingras, 16th November
Marc Gingras, currently CEO and founder of Tungle, will be at next week’s tapintuesday mentoring event. If you miss the series, those series are a unique opportunity in Montréal to meet a successful entrepreneur, and are targeted at new/wishful entrepreneurs, who have questions about launching a technology startup. We’ve had in the past months Sébastien [...]
readon.ly, a minimalist and powerful approach to saving web content
Georges Duverger, a designer/developer, is now based in New York but a lot of you know his work for Montreal-based projects, for startups like akoha, or more personal tools like cineti.ca. His website and recent projects cineti.ca demonstrate an interest in aesthetics, typography and finely crafted tools, not far away from swiss design principles, plus [...]
Fire starts near data center; 3000 servers down
Last night was a test for iWeb Technologies support team. A fire broke near their iWeb-CL data center, and as a result, power supply was spotty. In such a scenario, and to prevent any sudden power outage for hosted servers, generators are started and iWeb waits for HydroQuébec to provide again regular electricity. iWeb was [...]
Demos at Montreal NewTech: Percona, AnotherSocialEconomy, 4sqmobs
A couple of demos were shown yesterday at McKibbins, in front of a tech-savvy and enthusiast audience. It was an opportunity to see small and big projects built by Montréalers and at the end, an opportunity also to talk with a diverse crowd. Last night’s event also marked the return from Germany of Felipe Coimbra, [...]
Upcoming: ProductCampMontréal, 21st Novembre 2010
Head over to ProductCampMontreal.com, a new camp event organized by Phil Gauvin, gathering product managers and product marketers. It’s the first of its kind in Montréal, although similar events have been organized in other North American cities. Since it’s a camp event, there is no official speakers, rather attendees are actively encouraged to participate and [...]
Tap In Tuesday: Successful Tech Entrepreneur reveals his recipe for success
Over at the Tap In Tuesday blog, Gabriel Sundaram has a detailed recap of the last Tap In Tuesday meetup. The event gathered 20 or so new entrepreneurs, with Carl Mercier, who built himself many tech tools, but best known in Montréal for having founded Defensio, an anti-spam tool, and having successfully sold it to [...]
