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Re: Reconsidering the command line

heri — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:00:18 -0000

i use launchy on windows, which is a clone of quicksilver. you are not required to type open app_x but just the key letters from the app's name. mapped it to alt+space

also the nanoformats wiki is interesting but is it supported by twitter? I thought only @username was

Re: Seed stage financing in Canada

heri — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:39:54 -0000

Hi David,

Here in Quebec, I only saw one early seed stage financing this year, which is Garage Canada financing Praizedmedia for about 1$ million.

I still think there isn't definetely not enough seed investment in Canada; I thought back then there wasn't enough investors, but your list shows otherwise.

I am not sure the size of the audience matter. You mention Israel which is an excellent example, the country is well known for its technological innovation and startups, even though there is a very small population.

I was thinking about the entrepreneurship intensity. Having entrepreneurs, investors, engineers, etc. gathered, intensly exchanging in one place, working relentelessly on new projects is what's happenning in Silicon Valley or Israel. Here in Canada, technological entrepreneurship is scattered all around the country and it's difficult for an entrepreneur to find new ideas, implement them, and get (financial) support.

Hopefully, democamps, barcamps (thanks btw), and tech blogs have the power to change this.

but this is a wild guess too.

happy 2008!

Re: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/thoughts-on-re.html

heri — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:20:41 -0000

re: Asia

you should definetely have a look at Asia, esp. South Korea, China, Japan, and South-East Asia

Asia is where the growth is, especially for the Internet. Did you know that 8 of the top 20 "most connected" countries are now in Asia. I wrote a blog post about this from collected stats http://blog.iweb.com/en/2008/12/the-exponential...

Re: Conspiracy Theory: The real story behind Plenty of Fish

heri — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:19:59 -0000

Hey I also want to smoke whatever you're getting

Re: Facebook Is Kinda OK but Largely Overrated

heri — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:38:09 -0000

I agree. FB is overrated. I realized it was worthless when I was in college. It was fun the first two months when you get in touch again with lost friends from high school but I realized it's useless in itself.

But I guess bloggers and media just need something to talk about. Just before FB, it was twitter. There were the anti-twitter and the pro-twitter. before twitter, there was joost etc. The FB hype will die the day when another startup launches something somehow "interesting", then half bloggers will all write it's the big new thing, with the rest claiming it's stupid.

Re: Vista Is Good

heri — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:36 -0000

But Vista is still a memory and CPU hog; makes PCs run 10 times slower compared to Ubuntu or XP.

Re: Bubble 2.0

heri — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:20:16 -0000

many web apps are free because the marginal cost is nearly 0.

this is the law of the market. a web company cannot charge for accessing web pages because some smart teenager is going to offer a similar service for free.

Re: Coda, a Quick Review

heri — Sat, 26 May 2007 07:37:55 -0000

you should compare it to textmate

by the way, I have added your blog to
http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/04/montreal-b...

(i am building techmeme's equivalent for montreal - will be a ruby on rails app by the way)

Re: Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast

heri — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:00:16 -0000

hi
welcome aboard fred.
yes the community is smaller than in the silicon valley, but we are doing things on our scale and there are lots to be proud of.
if you came to the next breakfast or to other events, you will meet other tech people in montreal

a la prochaine

Re: Scrum and XP from the Trenches

heri — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:28:42 -0000

hey you should come next week at the web development book club to present this book. i am very interested and I think everyone would be too.

Re: The Pain of Tracking Conversations

heri — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:02:48 -0000

sounds like a great idea for a local startup weekend :-)

Re: Why Desktop Programming Is So Unproductive?

heri — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:20:35 -0000

even adobe is thinking about bringing photoshop to the web. when we will be there, there is no point to create desktop software.

Re: Favorite Web Apps in 2007

heri — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:24:34 -0000

I am using Tumblr quite a lot. Great design, clear, and I know a couple of guys in montreal who are doing very innovative things with it.

Re: DEMO08

heri — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:51:15 -0000

Hey fred, first, congrats. Do you know if they save the video as well? In an embeddable format?

Re: DEMO08

heri — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:27:29 -0000

Thanks, I will embed them on MTW

Re: Time Capsule, What About Security?

heri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:51:45 -0000

I thought the data is encrypted?

Re: Time Capsule, What About Security?

heri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:49:47 -0000

In the case then, you can still use FileVault (system preferences) to encrypt files.

Re: Twittercal Is Mashup of the Day

heri — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:39:44 -0000

Félicitations!

Re: Can We Trust The Cloud?

heri — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:18:21 -0000

But I think whatever you do, your server setup would always be less reliable than Google's infrastructure.

They have anti-spam, anti-DOS, failover, redundancy, backups, staff 24/7, permanent people doing architecture etc.

The only thing I am worried about is not servers failing but Google owning my personal data. It's there somewhere in the cloud.

Re: If You Can Type, You Can Make Movies

heri — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:39:25 -0000

i find this awesome, congrats!

Re: MacBook & MacBook Pro

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:59:02 -0000

I didn't see one yet, but I dislike the black and aluminium color mix. I think the previous all grey look was classier

Re: The Next President of the United States

heri — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:37:08 -0000

so link to boston globe?? you linked to wikipedia

Re: Google Is Looking to Run Native Code on the Web

heri — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:08:30 -0000

it would mean you could use the CPU to do things like user-generated movies :-) but having access at the same time to the web.

Re: Best Wishes for 2009

heri — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:46:44 -0000

I wrote a similar post here (to sum up what was up in 2008) :
http://blog.iweb.com/en/2008/12/revolutions-cri...

Re: Canadian Startups on Read/Write Web

heri — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:26:08 -0000

Hi Jevon
Thanks for the post! Although MontrealTechWatch doesn't have the ambition to cover all canadian startups ... I am also following closely what you guys are doing.

Re: Canada’s greatest startup city?

heri — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:11:07 -0000

i could write one for montreal i guess, but you guys should write one for toronto first - I am very curious about what's up in ontario.

by the way, there is something similar at montrealtechwatch (it started with ottawa this week, there should be one every week) although it talks about startups not about the data and stats you are talking about.

Re: » Ontario “Premier’s Catalyst Awards” nominations open | StartupNorth

heri — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:45:49 -0000

great initiative. you guys are lucky!

Re: » Nova Scotia Startup Competition | StartupNorth

heri — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:19:44 -0000

this is a great initiative although i am curious who are on the panels that select the final startups. i am always wary of government-funded competitions.

Re: » Delusions of Facebook - Should you be a Facebook Startup? | StartupNorth

heri — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:02:11 -0000

i think of facebook as just a distribution platform for what you are doing on your main website, like widgets or RSS.

The best example by the way is iLike, who are able to offer a great facebook app because they already have the data from their main website.

Re: » How to botch a launch: Razzle.ca | StartupNorth

heri — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:20:02 -0000

imho, it's mostly because the team is young

give them time, people

Re: » Blognation Shuts Down | StartupNorth

heri — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:59 -0000

hopes Tris finds a new job soon.

/about canada, this happens 1 month after Mark Evans left Maple 2.0, which means startupnorth is the last canadian--wide blog.

Re: » OmniDate.com - Virtual Dating is the new Starbucks | StartupNorth

heri — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:06:06 -0000

hey jonas, is that your avatar, the one in blue

this is funny, although i have to see yet a virtual world that works with users (apart from games like wow)

Re: » BrightSpark: Venture Capital is not what it used to be, we are changing | StartupNorth

heri — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:04:05 -0000

i've repeatedly blogged about it, that we need more early-stage investors because the market is changing

since then, i spoke to several investors and what i got is that most of them just want to invest in "the" big deal, they would get less work and believe they would get a fatter return on their investment.

of course, when i mention how the market is changing, they totally agree we need more angel investors, more people in early stage but nobody wants to take the job because it's too much hassle and work.

if this goes on, i feel we just have to ignore the old-school VCs and just build that startup.

Re: » Founders and Funders Toronto Kick Off Questions | StartupNorth

heri — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:23:24 -0000

funny how you write the questions, we don't really have a choice in answers, do we?

i think there should be more videos coming from canadian entrepreneurs that gets the word out. ca.intruders.tv is a good start, but I am thinking about video blogs like Loic le meur's seismic.

Re: » BlitzWeekend - ad-hoc startup launchpad | StartupNorth

heri — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:29:18 -0000

Hi Jevon,

Great! Hope we will get guys from Toronto, Waterloo and beyond responding to the challenge.

If any of you guys want to reach the team at blitzweekend, the contact is hello@blitzweekend.com

Re: » As The Web Turns - The tales of Capazoo | StartupNorth

heri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:20:32 -0000

the 2 brothers are conmen who fooled investors and partners. this is quite dramatic, and hopefully new entrepreneurs and investors learn something here.

by the way, i am not sure what the flag you pictured there has to do with the story.

Re: » As The Web Turns - The tales of Capazoo | StartupNorth

heri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:42:52 -0000

@jevon -- silly me

Re: » VeloCity - Incubator 2.0 or something completely new? | StartupNorth

heri — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0000

great initiative

i think you are spot on with:

"All you need is for the culture of the place to go off the rails just a little bit and all of a sudden you just have an expensive dorm with a fancy coat of paint. While I am sure that there are a slate of mentors lined up and a full calendar of events, you need people there almost every day to influence the direction of the students."

Re: » Your Facebook app is a disaster, and I was right. | StartupNorth

heri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:37:25 -0000

imho, facebook apps are great for promoting a business/a product or for social games.

otherwise, as a stand-alone business, with the current figures, it doesnt make sense

Re: » April Fools: We are funded! StartupNorth takes a $3.2 million series A financing | StartupNorth

heri — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:12:02 -0000

right. you guys also follow the australian time zone?

Re: » Running a startup blog isn’t easy - MontrealTechWatch 2.0 | StartupNorth

heri — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:36:35 -0000

Jevon, i like the MontrealTechWatch 2.0 name you gave -- hints that it's generated by the community. although I also think the first year was the beta version.

by the way, there is no plan to expand beyond montreal. when I wrote "beyond", this meant focusing in Montreal, but still collaborating and opening to the world, and being conscious that there are other great initiatives outside Montreal.

I really hope that we find a few, diverse, commited, key members for MTW and create a lasting entity. The vision is again in MTW's logo, a watch tower for the community.

to StartupNorth readers, I invite you to do the same thing for your city, in the same way that Scott Lake is doing startupottawa

Re: » Funded Well.ca | StartupNorth

heri — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:36:08 -0000

that's really cool! congrats for the guys @ well.ca

Re: » MediaScrape - Will Montreal give us another Capazoo? | StartupNorth

heri — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:28:16 -0000

mediascrape is just playing a lil' bit with the numbers. also, i am not sure being featured on TC was one of his goals.

Re: » StartupNorth is a year old! How did that happen? | StartupNorth

heri — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:33:38 -0000

Jevon, Jonas, congratulations!

It's a great achievemnet you've done here. Looking forward for what you guys will be doing next :-)

Can't go to the party though, but I am cheering you virtually :-)

Re: » indochino.com takes new round of financing from Burda Digital | StartupNorth

heri — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:55:35 -0000

hmm i thought ecommerce websites don't get vc funding? and it's a tailored clothes? isn't this a "lifestyle" business? or the tailored jackets and the brand just the beginning for something bigger?

Re: » Will you bet on VenCorps? | StartupNorth

heri — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:15:21 -0000

the idea is compelling but in its current form, i won't

Will Pate said anyone (say for instance a teenager in any country in the world) could join the crowd and vote for a startup. There is something flawed here.

Re: » Lessons in Social Media, with MediaScrape | StartupNorth

heri — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:40:29 -0000

I am not sure Mediascrape wants to be viewed as a startup and do the whole social media thing

Re: » LearnHub.com launches - Teach and Learn Online | StartupNorth

heri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:31:30 -0000

i get lots of "inspiration" from learnhub.

it's a titanic project. feels like a webiste that has 3years+ in maturity. not sure if they are the most productive people or they work 24h/7 days a wekk.

Re: » Dan McGrady: 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off | StartupNorth

heri — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:00 -0000

in the same vein, i thought this was also a great post http://phlskl.com/?p=4 (mycarpoolstation.com)

Re: » Distinctly Canadian Web Habits | StartupNorth

heri — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:14:28 -0000

you forgot to mention mobile web usage

also along the lines of myspace in us vs facebook in ca, i know google properties are more used in canada than yahoo properties, which is not the case in the us.

Re: Heroku | The Big Kickoff

heri — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:17:56 -0000

i signed up but the questions are: how much does it cost? do you have a control panel and screenshots? and do we get access to powerfu
l and scalable hardware? if yes, i am quitting my host.

Re: Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com

heri — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:51:09 -0000

i don't get your comment about services like twitter needing a messaging architecture.

twitter uses this architecture right now and it still doesn't work.

tweets are not published automatically for instance, they use starling, a daemon whose task is to take all tweets and process them. The subscribed users then get the updates. exactly how you described it.

but this is flawed. why? because when you have thousands of followers, the message has to be copied thousands times. imagine what happens when another user who has thousands of followers replies back. i'm sure even smtp would also choke on that -- it's not designed for users wanting to message thousands of addresses.

that's why i think identi.ca is not better or worse than twitter. but here's one thing: users can install it on their own servers helping thus the load to be distributed. which is a great architecture design.

note: i don't necessarily have the solution though.

Re: Safari: Didn’t get it at first, but now I do

heri — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:51:03 -0000

for me, safari for windows is the worst product apple has released in a couple of years. it can't handle international characters like french, italian or dutch websites. (even thought it's ok if you have a US or Canadian English OS)

some screenshots here
http://heri.madmedia.ca/articles/2007/06/11/new...

Re: Showdown: Facebook versus the Internet

heri — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:20:06 -0000

i am somehow irritated by facebook's mail messages. but actually, i found out it's a design choice, possibly made by the facebook founders from launch. by forcing you to go there, you actually find yourself checking your news feed and then see your friends profile or whatever new app they have. you can see by the way that they make it easy for you to leave a message, they don't nag you with repeat screens and messages, no there is a nice ajax box which will instantly send the notification to your friend ... then the circle begins again.

Re: A free and open market in credibility

heri — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:41:52 -0000

i think it's a lot of talk about nothing. we see it everyday, at Revision3 for example (Kevin Rose "endorsing" products and making no difference in tone with the podcast). and as Michael Arrington says, this is one of the rare source of revenue for bloggers. people expect blogs to be ad-free, with a neutral POV, blogging about breaking news... this is just impossible.

Re: Nokia buys Symbian, opens it for war with Google Android

heri — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:05:55 -0000

i remember just last week a Nokia executive announced the open source community need to change their mentality and follow "corporate values". so when I see this move, "opens it for war" is just a PR move and no third-party developers will follow.

Re: Change.gov is coming — and has Obama picked his CTO?

heri — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:10:36 -0000

I disagree.

Maybe you see what's happenning at popular crowd-sourced websites such as digg.com, with sensationalist stories; but downplaying a member's vote is not the way to go. People will feel alienated and won't participate.

What I've done (on http://techentreprise.com for instance) is a mix between crowd-source algorith + authorative editorial team. that is a core team which sets the original vision, but still accepts feedback and issues coming from all members.

Re: Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010

heri — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:53 -0000

to be sold with a 3 or 3.5G wireless card and sold by carriers then, with a bluetooth headset?

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech

heri — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:58:51 -0000

1. Twitter will introduce plans for businesses wanting a presence (pages, management of followers, stats)

2. Wave after wave of phones supporting Android, none of them as good as the iPhone but collectively a better offer for consumers

3. Microsoft buys a major stake in Facebook for very cheap

4. Yahoo fails, Yahoo Japan becomes independent

5. omnipresence of facebook, every platform out there supports Facebook Connect. It's the new Yahoo

6. SAI bought by new york times

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Predictions for 2009 In the World of Tech

heri — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:18:16 -0000

i thought SAI would be a perfect fit for NYT

also seeing clusterstock and their coverage, it shows that they like money more than they hate the NYT

Re: Rogers and Nokia: N95 Launch

heri — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:04:20 -0000

really, I have a friend who has it. he says it's too big, there is no clear "feature winner" for the phone, couple of UI problems etc. so he leaves it at home and uses a smaller & faster phone. and this comes from a telecom guy

Re: Bell on a slippery slope of pricing honesty

heri — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:22:37 -0000

mmm have you noticed that this is fiber optic? in the ad? if you find a service that can handle the load, you could reach 2GB in a few seconds.

Re: The news is out: Canada’s monster fund for blackberry devs

heri — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:08:43 -0000

sunbathing and sailing really takes a toll on blog posts length, eh?

Re: In Web3.0, the mobile web browses you

heri — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:57:32 -0000

hmmm, shoudn't apple work on this? shouldn't they give access to the GPS/touch sensor via the browser?

Re: Rogers iPhone predictions

heri — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:53:57 -0000

1GB data cap + HSPDA: another prediction: we'll have customers with $500 monthly bills

Re: Rogers iPhone pricing plans revealed: 3years $3440

heri — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:37:39 -0000

hey any info if this would use Rogers' 3G network?

Re: Rogers flexes new blackberry data plans, roaming still a killer

heri — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:03:29 -0000

re: rogers unlimited for iphone
maybe you didn't really digg into but it seems the Rogers iPhone plans were a hoax, by someone who copied&paste a memo from AT&T. another source told me the official plan is different

Re: Tens of thousands sign rogered iPhone petition

heri — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:10:28 -0000

I wonder if actually anyone knows why rates are so expensive in Canada compared to rest of the world. Is it because of higher margins taken by carriers? is it because they are not efficient enough (old or outdated equipment)? is it because the territory is too big, forcing them to spend more on infrastructure compared to other countries? is it because the penetration and usage rates are so low that they have to make the existing customer base pay for the service?

is there a study on this ? say comparing rogers' operating costs with those of the likes of NTT Docomo (Japan) Orange (Europe)
anyone?

Re: Need out of your iPhone contract? $1100 please

heri — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:46:03 -0000

i am ok with the limitations and price but this is just too much.

the thing is, we are all sure that Apple will release a 3rd generation iPhone in one year, and another one in 2 years etc. Which means people who would get the Rogers' iPhone will be stuck with a crappy device in the 3rd year - with everyone else in the world enjoying smthg else.

might just get the iPhone with just a voice plan and the standard 1 year contract. or better yet, prepaid.

Re: Bell jacking TXT messaging fees

heri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:46:58 -0000

I was in France before Montreal, and over there, people who receive calls on their mobile phones don't pay anything.

Everybody takes it for granted since you can't control who calls you. It might be one dear friends, but also a telemarketer or someone who misdialled.

this was the most natural of things until I landed in Canada and actually learned that you have to pay if someone calls you.

I strongly believe this practice is one of the main reasons why mobile phone penetration is much higher in North America, especially Canada, compared to Europe. Over there, everyone has a mobile phone, with many of my friends having a couple or three.

Re: You can’t help yourself, you will get an iPhone

heri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:21 -0000

i would have gotten one even if the plan was $200 per month.

the only thing that crosses the line for me is the 3-year contract.

so yeah, I'll get the iPhone, with a standard voice plan, for 1 year.

for data & web, I'll improvise

Re: Spectrum Auction: It’s Over, Final Results of Canada’s 2008 AWS Spectrum Auction

heri — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:39:40 -0000

$4.25 is a hell lot of money

Re: Dear Rogers Webmaster, Please hear of firefox. k thx.

heri — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:04:48 -0000

Bell Canada is also officially compatible with just internet explorer

Re: Fido’s funny new design

heri — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:14:56 -0000

fail

I'm a fido customer and I can't relate to that. looks like a sketch or a parkd site.

Re: Still time to find Coal for Christmas? the Palm Centro

heri — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:52:12 -0000

one positive point (compared to the iPhone or pearl): it has a qwerty keyboard

Re: What Web Frameworks Are Missing

heri — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:26:14 -0000

credit card payements are tied to a merchant account in a bank, and each payement gateway has its own methods and frameworks.

but this is right. I envision a startup providing this kind of service, acting as a middle-man who'd ease the setup and make it transparent

Re: Canadian Startups on Read/Write Web

heri — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:26:08 -0000

Hi Jevon
Thanks for the post! Although MontrealTechWatch doesn't have the ambition to cover all canadian startups ... I am also following closely what you guys are doing.

Re: Canada’s greatest startup city?

heri — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:11:07 -0000

Re: Ontario “Premier’s Catalyst Awards” nominations open

heri — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:45:49 -0000

great initiative. you guys are lucky!

Re: Nova Scotia Startup Competition

heri — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:19:44 -0000

this is a great initiative although i am curious who are on the panels that select the final startups. i am always wary of government-funded competitions.

Re: Delusions of Facebook - Should you be a Facebook Startup?

heri — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:02:11 -0000

Re: How to botch a launch: Razzle.ca

heri — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:20:02 -0000

imho, it's mostly because the team is young

give them time, people

Re: Blognation Shuts Down

heri — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:59 -0000

hopes Tris finds a new job soon.

/about canada, this happens 1 month after Mark Evans left Maple 2.0, which means startupnorth is the last canadian--wide blog.

Re: OmniDate.com - Virtual Dating is the new Starbucks

heri — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:06:06 -0000

hey jonas, is that your avatar, the one in blue

this is funny, although i have to see yet a virtual world that works with users (apart from games like wow)

Re: BrightSpark: Venture Capital is not what it used to be, we are changing

heri — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:04:05 -0000

Re: Founders and Funders Toronto Kick Off Questions

heri — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:23:24 -0000

Re: BlitzWeekend - ad-hoc startup launchpad

heri — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:29:18 -0000

Re: As The Web Turns - The tales of Capazoo

heri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:20:32 -0000

Re: As The Web Turns - The tales of Capazoo

heri — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:42:52 -0000

@jevon -- silly me

Re: VeloCity - Incubator 2.0 or something completely new?

heri — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:00:49 -0000

Re: Your Facebook app is a disaster, and I was right.

heri — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:37:25 -0000

imho, facebook apps are great for promoting a business/a product or for social games.

otherwise, as a stand-alone business, with the current figures, it doesnt make sense

Re: April Fools: We are funded! StartupNorth takes a $3.2 million series A financing

heri — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:12:02 -0000

right. you guys also follow the australian time zone?

Re: Running a startup blog isn’t easy - MontrealTechWatch 2.0

heri — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:36:35 -0000

Re: Funded Well.ca

heri — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:36:08 -0000

that's really cool! congrats for the guys @ well.ca

Re: MediaScrape - Will Montreal give us another Capazoo?

heri — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:28:16 -0000

mediascrape is just playing a lil' bit with the numbers. also, i am not sure being featured on TC was one of his goals.

Re: StartupNorth is a year old! How did that happen?

heri — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:33:38 -0000

Jevon, Jonas, congratulations!

It's a great achievemnet you've done here. Looking forward for what you guys will be doing next :-)

Can't go to the party though, but I am cheering you virtually :-)

Re: indochino.com takes new round of financing from Burda Digital

heri — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:55:35 -0000

hmm i thought ecommerce websites don't get vc funding? and it's a tailored clothes? isn't this a "lifestyle" business? or the tailored jackets and the brand just the beginning for something bigger?

Re: Will you bet on VenCorps?

heri — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:15:21 -0000

Re: Lessons in Social Media, with MediaScrape

heri — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:40:29 -0000

I am not sure Mediascrape wants to be viewed as a startup and do the whole social media thing

Re: LearnHub.com launches - Teach and Learn Online

heri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:31:30 -0000

i get lots of "inspiration" from learnhub.

it's a titanic project. feels like a webiste that has 3years+ in maturity. not sure if they are the most productive people or they work 24h/7 days a wekk.

Re: Dan McGrady: 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off

heri — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:00 -0000

in the same vein, i thought this was also a great post http://phlskl.com/?p=4 (mycarpoolstation.com)

Re: Distinctly Canadian Web Habits

heri — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:14:28 -0000

Re: Idee’s new iphone app

heri — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:59:22 -0000

this is cool.

i dont know why i thought about it, but intelligence could approach them to identify people (think big brother)

spooky

Re: The sky is falling, and so is your valuation

heri — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:03:23 -0000

i disagree, the sky is not falling. this post is more alarming than it should be, especially in the beginning. most canadian companies and banks have been conservative, compared to the US, and you can't just tell them to be even more conservative.
my 2 cents

Re: Garage Canada in the deadpool?

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:10:54 -0000

Garage Canada also announced at one time an investment here

http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/10/11/garage-...

it turned out that they didn't do a serious due diligence, turned out after the investment that the CEO frauded with false accounting books and figures.

also see here http://dawalibi.blogspot.com/ a few weeks ago, when I added the blog to MTW's blogroll, the author presented himself as a partner at GarageCanada and now it's just "VC whisperer"

this is sad, they used to sponsor democamps and barcamps.

Re: Canadian entrepreneurs have to be more creative than relying exclusively on the US market.

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:14:23 -0000

I know the current state of the Canadian tech sector and I know the primary market is the US

My point was that it should be diversified. So that when the US catches a cold, we have at least a minimal room for manoeuvring

Re: Canadian entrepreneurs have to be more creative than relying exclusively on the US market.

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:15:39 -0000

see my previous reply to Mark

Re: Canadian entrepreneurs have to be more creative than relying exclusively on the US market.

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:19:01 -0000

this seems to be unrelated, but also I think there should be more ways than just building on ads.

Re: Canadian entrepreneurs have to be more creative than relying exclusively on the US market.

heri — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:21:11 -0000

because everyone (well bloggers) in the US says the american startups are busted? why put yourself in the same sinking ship?

(yeah ok, that was a bit harsh, but I'd really like people to pause a little and think before jumping on the bandwagon)

Re: Want to meet fellow StartupEmpire attendees?

heri — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:34:42 -0000

good idea, this is an essential part of an event.

also, I know the Toronto network is not supposed to be opened or known, but there's also this http://techentreprise.com/Toronto/events/23-Sta... for those who have an account there

Re: Announcing The First Technology Entrepreneurs Montreal Breakfast Meetup

heri — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:41:57 -0000

Hi Ben
i just stumbled upon your blog. you should have a look at meetup.com, there is a Montreal Entrepreneur Group and a Montreal E-Business Group. there are monthly meetups so you guys might want to join in - or the other way around....

anyway, i will come, it is a great initiative

Re: Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast Going Strong

heri — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:34:47 -0000

i agree with you that it's quite difficult to meet everyone.

however, i think you don't have to meet everyone. i prefer to talk more with someone, know what he or she is doing, what he is looking for, what I can do with him/her... it takes time to know somebody.

what i mean is I don't see the event as just a pure networking where you get to collet business cards. i went there to have connections with like-minded people. having a breakfast is a good way to know "in depth" somebody.

although I agree the place could be bigger, and that you could definetely find something more appropriate.

Re: Great Montreal Blogs for April Blogtipping

heri — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:30:55 -0000

hi there,
Thanks ben - i am trying to migrate to wordpress and get it to the next level as you say. i don't have the same experience as you in blogging.

also sorry couldn't check out instigator before. had a crazy week and couldn't read it. ok now you will have to talk to me about your startup :-)

Re: A Day of Inspiration, Motivation and Learning at The Power Within

heri — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:43:30 -0000

Mitch Joel should hae a look at gapingvoid.com global micro brand, it's very similar to his 'personal brand'

Re: An Interview with 5min.com Life Videopedia Founder Ran Harnevo

heri — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:45:48 -0000

They should let users get a share of the revenues. that would create quality content and more videos.

Re: Time To Change The Face Of Recruiting - Standout Jobs

heri — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:08:57 -0000

I love the logo :-)

Re: 5 Inspirational To-Dos You Can Do Every Day

heri — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:07:43 -0000

It's simple. I take a pause and do something different from what I have been doing. Like have a walk. Try going to the top of Mont Royal by foot.

Another good way is meeting people with another mindset. Like seeing creative, artistic people. They always seem to take another new approach at things

cheers

Re: Top 10 Reasons to Join a Startup

heri — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:46:55 -0000

@evan
i read your post but everyone knows there is much more risk in startups. they are not your typical dad&mom's business. most of them, startups fail, the founders loose everything, the team is washed out. but the rewards can be huge if it succeeds, as in microsoft or google.

at the end, it's all a personal choice. (and i guess most students go naturally to less risky jobs)

Re: It’s A Boy!

heri — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:40:36 -0000

congrats!

Re: The Myth of Risky Startups

heri — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:55:27 -0000

specifically about Montreal, there is now a page about this at yulstart.org

http://yulstart.org/wiki/index.php?title=How_to...

Re: Should You Raise Venture Capital For Your Startup?

heri — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:55:05 -0000

i am still amazed how you got the deal. this is going to bring in lots of pressure. i guess i need to watch out and reevaluate standoutjobs.

Re: Don’t Take Things Too Seriously

heri — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:07:23 -0000

seeing how natural the laptop is for him, I foresee a future blogger.

Re: How-To Start a Company and Family at the Same Time

heri — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:25:33 -0000

ben, you are a great story teller.

and you are doing a great work too, which all entrepreneurs here can inspire to.

Re: Going to San Francisco - Wanna Get Together?

heri — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:25:53 -0000

hey ben,
this sounds like a lot of fun. wish you a great trip and hope you'll learn a lot

Re: A New Design for Instigator Blog

heri — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:24:12 -0000

hi ben,
it's great, i thnk it's much much better than the previous one
i think it has also more personality than the previous one.

Re: Are You Testing the Effectiveness of Your Website?

heri — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:26:27 -0000

hey ben,

i know you guys have launched, but there is one guerilla marketing tactic that is used often for starting web apps, which is making up a fake website, with a different url, with a different layout, and a different way to present the service, and then see if people actually signup. actually provides objective data on what works and what doesn't

Re: The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

heri — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:50:57 -0000

funny, i didn't know you had that conference room in your offices

:-)

great blog post, as usual, ben

Re: Alain Wong Biking for a Great Cause

heri — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:51:32 -0000

this is great! but I am wondering how he will be carrying his stuff

Re: How To Launch a Startup: Ideas, Acceleration, Raising Capital and More

heri — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:55 -0000

ben,

i can tell you this was a great presentation, i got to talk to many entrepreneurs/teams who told me it was very inspiring, and who wished you were there on saturday or sunday to give them some advice.

thanks again,

Re: http://www.instigatorblog.com/standout-jobs-relaunches/2008/10/27/

heri — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:29:46 -0000

congrats Ben (and congrats to the whole team too!) I really like where you're taking this

Re: Ruby Isn't Fun Anymore

heri — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:54:24 -0000

wondering how came up to this... are there any special figures? a national poll or overheard conversations at a ruby conference? or it's just personal thoughts?

Re: Innovative Spam Is Just Downright Offensive

heri — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:56:37 -0000

this is a new startup,

ben yoskovitz made an interview recently on instigatorblog.com, with the CEO

http://www.instigatorblog.com/mindvalley-launch...

Re: 7 Reasons Why My Social Music Site Never Took Off

heri — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:28:47 -0000

8th reason:
- you tried to start a social network in a niche you were not a member of. as the founder, you should have been the #1 user, the one that creates new content every day, relentelessly, and showing the rest of the community how to use the website.

(ok maybe it's the case and i am wrong, but it's a frequent mistake for first-time entrepreneurs)

Re: Mining PostRank: Optimal publishing times

heri — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:28:47 -0000

great! i'm saving this for future reference.

see also a study about best month to get max audience

http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/08/19/audienc...

it's jan and march while you don't get anyone during summer

Re: Plugins I've Known and Loved #1

heri — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:00:00 -0000

i thought that was a great presentation too. I've seen the annoucements about make_resourceful and shoulda but never tried them in fact. now i think you convinced me to :-)

Re: Plugins I've Known and Loved #1

heri — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:00:00 -0000

i thought that was a great presentation too. I've seen the annoucements about make_resourceful and shoulda but never tried them in fact. now i think you convinced me to :-)

Re: A Response to Dreamhost

heri — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:03:00 -0000

hi james,
i just read the post & comments about mod_ruby / mod_mongrel and I think it's the path the rails core team should go to. or the mongrel team for that matter

http://www.rubyinside.com/no-true-mod_ruby-is-d...

Re: Introducing Action Messager: Dead simple IM notifications for your app!

heri — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:17:00 -0000

James, I don't think speed is an issue. I am using starling (from twitter) to process long requests and it's surprisingly rock-solid and stable.

also to connect to other IM services, you should look at what the guys from timmyontime did.
http://www.rubyfleebie.com/im-integration-with-...
(xmpp4r works with jabber/msn/aim)

Re: Plugins I've Known and Loved #1

heri — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:00:00 -0000

i thought that was a great presentation too. I've seen the annoucements about make_resourceful and shoulda but never tried them in fact. now i think you convinced me to :-)

Re: A Response to Dreamhost

heri — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:03:00 -0000

Re: Introducing Action Messager: Dead simple IM notifications for your app!

heri — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:17:00 -0000

Re: Welcome to the blurry, but fast, browser…

heri — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:46:09 -0000

i knew it was a beta software and i expected some color or maybe layout problems but safari for XP can't be called a browser for me

some screenshots here

http://heri.madmedia.ca/articles/2007/06/11/new...

i hope safari for iphone is much better, because it would be a nightmare

Re: Welcome to the blurry, but fast, browser…

heri — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:48:48 -0000

(apparently Safari for windows can't handle international characters and blocks between the i and em html tags)

Re: Ultimate Review List of Best Web Hosting Providers Compared

heri — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:46:06 -0000

Kevin,

great list.
you should also add iweb.com
very competitive price, with support by phone, email, chat and unlimited bandwidth. You can also upgrade to a dedicated server when the time needs
(it's based in Canada)

Re: Dr. Google and Mr Big Brother

heri — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:01:08 -0000

Je pense que Google va rester la star de l'informatique jusqu'à ce qu'une nouvelle startup prenne leur place. Les gens ont besoins de méchants et de héros.

IBM -> Microsoft -> Google -> ???

La nouvelle startup fera la une des journées et ça sera ensuite à la mode d'attaquer Google.

Re: DailyWom ne fait pas dans la dentelle

heri — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:05:59 -0000

mmm... intéressant...provocation et jeux de mots sur un blogue public. drague2.0 ?

Re: Ali Baba sans les 40 voleurs

heri — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:21:49 -0000

J'ai eu la même expérience la semaine passée. Oublié mes clés sur avenue du Parc, parce que je m'étais arrêté à un endroit pendant 5 min. revenu 15 minutes plus tard, c'était encore là, à la portée de n'importe quel passant. En plus, c'est pas comme si c'était un petit trousseau de clés, c'est très visible, avec du rouge.

J'ai d'autres amis qui ont vécu la même chose. Je pense que c'est l'une des rares métropoles au monde (>3 millions d habitants) où on se sent aussi tranquille. Bon. Je suis pas allé partout non plus, mais j'ai pas besoin de chercher ailleurs pour avoir mon opinion de Montréal.

Re: Quelques « réseaux sociaux » au Québec: la suite

heri — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:04:33 -0000

Bonjour,

oui, ce sont tous des réseaux sociaux prioritaires, je regarde d'ailleurs beaucoup sur ce qui va sortir de standoutjobs et akoha.

aussi, juste un point, on en avait discuté mais j'avais seulement evoqué les sites anglophones. un billet sur les réseaux sociaux francophones serait bien aussi. il me vient à l'esprit doyoulookgood ou par exemple la nouvelle plate-forme de radioenergie (qui s'inspire du phenomenal succes francais skyrock)

Re: Le monde dans les yeux d’un rédac chef, l’Américaine version

heri — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:20:55 -0000

félicitations pour l'idée et très bon travail.

j'imagine que vous utilisez l'API de technorati pour obtenir ces données.

comment vous faites pour savoir qu'un article traite un pays en particulier? comment ca marche si l'auteur de l'article mentionne juste un pays en tant qu'exemple, et non comme sujet principal de l'article.