Executions Labs : a bold video games incubator for Montréal

Executions Labs : a bold video games incubator for Montréal

We can see above Alexandre Pelletier-Normand and Jason Della Rocca at a recent Maison Notman event. Once known as a prolific community instigator, event organizer and IGDA director, Jason Della Rocca and his partners has announced a new video games incubator/accelerator, named Execution Labs. Here’s an insightful interview: Can you present yourself, and your team? [...]

Montreal startup Decode launches ambitious app-centred project for social change in India

Montreal startup Decode launches ambitious app-centred project for social change in India

How do you go about changing a seemingly endless cycle of obstructed access to education in a developing country? And how do you do it via a mobile app? That’s what Montreal startup Decode Global is trying to do. Decode Global is a Canadian incubator of mobile apps for social change, and the goliath problem [...]

Cinemagr.am makes it easy to produce cinemagraphs on the iPhone

Cinemagr.am makes it easy to produce cinemagraphs on the iPhone

As the iPhone’s feature set develops, with a more capable lens, and also better processing power, we see more tools available to the general public, playing with creative tools that were once only known by artists and professionals. The cinemagraph technique for instance was known only by a a few last year, with the most [...]

MARGE platform tracks mobile gaming engagement

MARGE platform tracks mobile gaming engagement

In addition to the augmented reality technology developed for Chromian Wars, Montreal startup Miralupa has developed a key technology to track mobile game engagement, a component in their MARGE platform. Serge Landry, co-founder of Miralupa, shared with me the stats they got after they just released a new version for Chromia Wars: - 1760 games played [...]

Montréal Samsung Coding Camp

Montréal Samsung Coding Camp

Waveguide in collaboration with Samsung is coming in Montreal next week for a coding camp focused on mobile and TV platform tech. The event is free (with free breakfast and lunch), and covers everything you need to know about mobile development on the latest smartphones: Android, NFC, HTML5 plus also Samsung technologies such as bada [...]

Playerize is FounderFuel’s first startup to close first round of funding ; $1m to grow Vancouver offices

Playerize is FounderFuel’s first startup to close first round of funding ; $1m to grow Vancouver offices

Quick but great news of the day: Venturebeat reports Playerize has closed its series A, getting $1m from Real Ventures, Rho Ventures, as well as invidual investors such as Mike Edwards of Initio Group, David Chamandy of Machkor, Martin-Luc Archambault of Bolidea, Dan Robichaud, and Jason Bailey. It’s a diverse group of investors, with investors [...]

A dedicated iPhone app for your WordPress blog with appifier

A dedicated iPhone app for your WordPress blog with appifier

Appifier, still in beta but already accessible to a few early users, helps bloggers reach the mobile market, by giving them a dedicated mobile version of their site, with a simple registration and a few clicks. With the number of blogs estimated to 151 millions in Feb 2011, Appifier is attacking a big market, in [...]

Path’s “WOW” Factor – Facebook Watch out!

Path’s “WOW” Factor – Facebook Watch out!

Do you know why Google + will not beat Facebook? Because it has a huge user base, but no “wow factor” (at least not for me). Remember Google Buzz? No?… Neither do I… Personally I won’t switch to Google + just because of its social circles (FB has it too now). I’m a lazy user and [...]

Recents Comments