Montreal Tech Watch

As 2010 finishes, we’ve seen small and big initiatives in technologies this year in Montreal, with now a strong diversity in the different groups and actors in the technology scene. There were many local companies releasing innovative products, with also new smaller companies getting funded or working hard on research and development. In Montreal, gaps [...]

There’s a website now for the upcoming mobile camp, due next spring in Montreal. The “conference” will gather mobile experts and enthusiasts about all things mobile. The event instigators, the two well-known local digerati @pluc and @digibomb, discussed during the last podcampmontreal and felt that event only scratched what’s possible and upcoming with mobile technologies, so continued [...]

One of the most active groups in Montreal, with its meetings and developer days, MontrealOuvert continues to make the case for open data in Montreal. Patiner Montreal was mentionned already in the latest hackathon, as one of the most advanced applications. There is now an Android application, made in record time, thanks to the fact [...]

mTrip, as the name might suggest, has launched for the past year customized mobile applications for the iPhone. Like many other guides, travellers could go to the Apple Store and choose one specific application available for each city. The interface and backend for each application are all the same, with mTrip producing different content each [...]

Since its origins as a conference for php developers, ConFoo has evolved into Montréal’s biggest web conference for developers, if not Canada’s biggest tech conference. They’ve unveiled today an enormous lineup of speakers for the upcoming 2011 edition, with more than 100 speakers (currently 110), from Montréal and Canada of course, but also a solid [...]

LocalMind has put up a new landing page. Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan), main founder of LocalMind, describes it as: Localmind will give you the ability to know what’s happening at any bar, club, restaurant, or any other venue in the world, right now. Real-time hyper-local information at your fingertips. So sign up for updates if you’re [...]

Who hasn’t wished all the links from your network would be available on a single, user-friendly interface? Smartr, a new iPhone application, does just that by retrieving all the links and filter out spam. No more conversations, personal status updates, chatter, Smartr just displays links. Most recent items are placed on top, and items can [...]

Currently in beta version, TempHunt aims to create a marketplace of temporary jobs. Anyone can fill a profile with their skills and availability, and then companies can find them through TempHunt’s search engine. The experience is informal compared to other job boards. It’s a fresh approach in an industry where profiles are verified, long and [...]

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The Bonery is an online key-value store, designed for sys-admins and developers so that they can have environment variables and server configuration data in the cloud, and not anymore on a single computer. At its core, it’s a key-value store, a thin HTTP wrapper around Redis, avalaible online with an API key. It bonery was [...]