Like weather, stock market prediction has always grasped imagination. If you can get one step ahead, through fast computers, superior intuition or advanced interfaces, you could beat other traders and get superior returns. The development of social media, mainly Twitter and Facebook, where hundreds of millions of users announce their small and big daily victories, [...]
For decision makers, navigating through Twitter, Facebook and Youtube is scary. You hear about the power of the crowd, brands being trashed on those sites, crowd-mobbing because a celebrity has had a bad experience somewhere. Plus they also hear from all marketing and business experiences that small, medium and large companies have to be there. [...]
Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Wellman developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]
With hundreds of millions of tweets a day, we’ve got large number of consumers communicating about what they are looking for, on a level similar to Google search. This is what Needium is focusing on: finding all those consumers and forwarding them to local businesses. Needium now has a full-time staff able to track those [...]
Tungle, which offers a collaborating calendaring software, launched today a website questioning the state of current calendars. A series of videos and texts tells us how existing calendars are just software representations of paper calendars and how they do not help us in our daily online life. The videos stars Marc Gingras, founder of Tungle, [...]
With conference season upon us the Montreal technology community is preparing to descend on a number of very large industry events. Our community has a number of speakers, attendees & company presentations occurring at: SXSW Interactive in Austin (March 13-17) Game Developers Conference in San Francisco (March 23-27) Web 2.0 Expo (March 31-April 3) Conferences [...]
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