There is an interesting post at StartupNorth about the TribeHR team going to a hotel far from Toronto, to focus on getting things done for a whole week. The team rent hotel rooms at Niagara Falls and delivered improvements and new features for TribeHR. The dedication is inspiring, as well as the concept of shutting [...]
Montréalers and Canadians at SXSW: Meetup at the Maple Leaf Digital Lounge
Deborah Lewis and Jeff Musson, two entreprising event organizers, are inviting all Montrealers technology entrepreneurs and digital media fans to gather at the Maple Leaf Digital Lounge, a central meetup place for Canadians at the upcoming SXSW in Austin. The lounge is an ambitious initiative to highlight what’s hot in Canada with startups from East [...]
Next Montreal NewTech @ Notman House
The next Montreal NewTech is coming up next tuesday March 1st, and it’s going to be at Notman House. As you can see in the photo above, McKibbins had a good bar atmosphere, but the Notman house has much more capacity, is in central downtown (corner St-Laurent, Sherbrooke), and has a much more natural fit [...]
Webcam recorder service Nimbb goes out of beta
This week, after 2 years in beta, video startup nimbb.com is now finally a full production-ready service. Nimbb is D2Soft Technologies product, the brainchild of entrepreneur Benjamin Bérubé, a Montrealer with San Francisco connections. Nimbb allows a web application to record video comments and interventions from visitors, a popular feature for contests, video profiles, job [...]
TheBell rings a satisfying bell whenever you’ve got a new user
From next door, Gregory Whiteside (@paisible) has just put online thbll.com. Apart from an unpronounceable name for non-geeks, it’s also a very simple service that will alert web application developers whenever they get a new user. The web application needs to send one POST request to an end URL and thbll will show up publicly [...]
Is there an Open Source state of mind in montréal?
There’s an interesting post at nextmontreal on how the city can be an open source startup hub. It is an opinion piece written by Evan Prodromou, who is no stranger to open source ventures, with now identi.ca and previously wikitravel. Montreal does have other open source startups, but the post raises many questions though. The [...]
Upcoming: usabilityFix, devLAB, Montreal Web Video, StartupDrinks
It’s an interesting week for those looking to network and learn, as we have one event in design, one for developers, one for video bloggers and the media, and a last one for entrepreneurs and startup people. If you’re looking for more events, or register a new one, go to TechEntreprise Usability Fix is hosted [...]
HydroQuébec’s LineScout robot for easy electric lines inspection and maintenance
Here’s a nice video of the newly introduced LineScout robot, winner of the 2010 Edison Award: Designed in open collaboration with Canadian companies ODPN and BC Transmission, the HydroQuebec robot was to facilitate inspection of maintenance transmission lines. The lines can be energized, meaning they still carry full electric power, saving precious company resources, reducing [...]
BlackBerry Partners Fund announces new $150 million fund
The Blackberry Partners fund was announced in early 2008. With capital totaling $150 million, the fund was to invest in mobile startups. While it was based both in Montréal and in Tornoto, and was to look into the mobile space locally, it also announced it will look at investment opportunities all over the world. It [...]
UsedServers covers all your network and data center hardware needs
In an IT world hammered again and again by trends like cloud computing, usedservers.ca is a curious play. Many IT directors got already memos about moving their servers to the cloud and also using cloud services instead of buying good old software. It’s easy to forget though that outside the world of web startups, cloud [...]
