Last Saturday, we had 5 to 8 people who participated in the new Blitzweekend, and we had a blast trying out the new format. Those who have heard of Blitzweekend before might recall the 2008 weekend, with over 80 people coming over to launch a product or a project in just 48 hours. It was [...]
iWeb Technologies valued at $47M, will undergo privatization
iWeb Technologies, one of the largest web hosting companies in Canada with four data centers, has been on TSX.V Ventures since late 2004. It also received $22M funding from Goldman Sachs over past years, to support the development of new data centers and hiring efforts. Recently, iWeb made also headlines for its R&D efforts, with [...]
[Upcoming] Umanity party, Confoo, YellowAPI hackfest
Lots of good celebrations this week for developers. First, we’ve got monday 2XM Interactive aka 2XM Labs launching a brand new iPhone App on the app store. It’s allows you to go back in time, and see what happened at a given place previously. Think Google earth mashed up with Twitter and the wayback machine! [...]
[Upcoming] TikiFest Confoo 2011
Tikiwiki has announced TikiFest, a series of events scheduled from today up until March 8th, gathering Tikiwiki and wiki fans. Here’s a video explaining what a Tikifest is: We will have lots of web developers, analysts, geeks, and all sorts of technology experts coming over to Montreal this week for confoo (see here for panelists), [...]
Montreal NewTech #28 in photos
Felipe Coimbra prepares for MtlNewTeh, the 28th NewTech demo so far, hosted this week at Notman House. The new community place has space available to host technology avents, with all necessary accomodations such as offices and desks for startups, a café, free Internet wireless access and more. Greg Whiteside (@paisible) checks the screen. He will [...]
