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March 18th, 2008

Canadian Innovation Exchange-CIX-and StartupCamp Toronto 2 submission deadlines looming

At the end of April (29th and 30th) the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) and StartupCamp Toronto 2 will give Canadian entrepreneurs a chance to shine and, perhaps, get a financial boost for their ventures.
Will Pate, David Crow, and Jevon MacDonald have talked about this great chance for folks to meet, greet, and probably even get […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 16th, 2008

Techvibes Canadian Startup Index update for March–b5media knocked off the top spot for now

Techvibes has updated their cross-Canada startup index for March for various cities in Canada:

Victoria Start-up Index - March 2008 | Techvibes Blog
Montréal Start-up Index - March 2008 | Techvibes Blog
Vancouver Start-up Index - March 2008 | Techvibes Blog
Alberta Start-up Index - March 2008 | Techvibes Blog
Toronto Start-up Index - March 2008 | Techvibes Blog
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March 4th, 2008

Ontogenix aims change the game in social media advertising

Ontogenix, according to their homepage, wants to become something new in the social media ad space: “Ontogenix is focused on becoming the leading, trusted social media advertising company.”  From StartupNorth, now they have some money to help them meet that goal:
Ontogenix is raising the round to go to market with their first product, an Interest […]

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February 18th, 2008

No doubt, Montreal is a hopping place for technology

Contrary to what folks might think down south (i.e. the US), Canada is has a very hot tech scene.  There is great stuff going on across the country, which btw keeps me busy, but I have to say of the tech cities here in Canada Vancouver and Montreal are the hot spots as far as […]

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February 14th, 2008

Overlay.tv lets you add to videos and earn a little cash too

Ottawa-based overlay.tv launched today with something that I think is pretty interesting and unique–letting users annotate and add to videos.
The idea is pretty simple (after you create an account) you find a video like on YouTube and put the URL into Overlay and then you, well, overlay stuff onto it.
Yeah I had a hard time […]

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February 8th, 2008

Canadian Government want’s your company at SXSW

Rob at Techvibes and Jevon at StartupNorth have both covered this cool effort by the Canadian government to get more Canadians done South to SXSW next month:
Tomorrow morning at 9am (Friday, February 8th 2008) there will be a meeting at Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada’s Toronto offices (151 Young St, 3rd floor boardroom) to […]

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February 4th, 2008

FeedHub adds extension and features, but aideRSS is close behind

I got a ping from FeedHub last night that they are adding a Firefox extension and a raft of new features.  Frank Gruber got the post up today, which is good because I’m still trying to find all my brain cells from blowing my nose all the time from this cold:

The FeedHub update will tackle: […]

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January 21st, 2008

As the Founders & Funders are wrapping up their dinner…

Tonight, I was sure it was later in the week, is the Founders & Funders dinner in TO.  Jevon posted these questions on StartupNorth as discussion points for the evening:
Do Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists get enough recognition for the deals they do in Canada?
Do Canadian universities inspire and support entrepreneurship? Could a “Startup Co-Op” […]

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January 21st, 2008

Defensio supports OpenID, upgrades the plugin, and keeps helping us keep our blogs spam free

I got the tip on Friday that my favourite anti-spam plugin for WP was getting a major update… they announced it yesterday/today (Heri got the jump on me)
Big day for Defensio! Why? Because we’re rolling out a boatload of new functionality: Source: Defensio, the blog » Blog Archive » Defensio Does OpenID
The big news is […]

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January 19th, 2008

Sylvain Carle–Watch these slides and learn. Start a startup fire.

Heri posted these slides-Sylvain Carle sets CUSEC on fire | Montreal Tech Watch-earlier this week, and honestly I didn’t make time to check them out until this afternoon.  I didn’t even get halfway through the deck (it’s 223 slides) before I knew, just knew, I had to post them here:

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