Montréal NEWTECH

Here’s Tungle’s Demo at the Montreal NewTech Meetup October 08. Sorry about the video/sound quality. Below is a note from Jacou Sarrazin, Tungle’s Product Manager.

 

Tungle is scheduling software that enhances your calendar, making it the ultimate scheduling solution. It does not replace your calendar, it works hand-in-hand with it, enabling you to coordinate meetings with people inside or outside your company in just a few clicks - whether they are a Tungle user or not. Using unique syncing technology, Tungle manages your schedule for you. All you do is propose meeting times, and the hassles of finding a time that works for everyone, avoiding double booking, and updating your calendar are handed off to Tungle.

Tungle supports Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple iCal and Entourage for Mac.

Here’s Brownbook.net’s Demo at the Montreal NewTech Meetup October 08. Sorry about the video/sound quality. Below is a note from Basil Berntsen, Brownbook’s Canadian Community Manager.

 

Business directory services are one of the most lucrative advertising businesses, despite the high overheads of managing and maintaining their core data, running large sales forces, IT departments, order entry teams… but for business owners it’s difficult and time-consuming to make updates, and it takes considerable time for updates to take effect. For smaller businesses it’s too expensive to advertise or promote their businesses, they have no control over how their listings are maintained, and many of today’s SOHO businesses never even make it into existing business directories. For users there is no indication of the reputation of suppliers, and no way to provide their own feedback, correct obvious mistakes that they see, or add additional useful information.

Brownbook applies the concepts of peer-production and wikis to revolutionize the business directory market. By harnessing the power and principles of wikis, user generated content, social media and social networking it creates a business directory service that:

• becomes the most up to date and comprehensive
• puts the power, production and feedback into the hands of the users
• is the simplest, quickest, and best value-for-money for advertisers
• removes massive cost from the traditional production cycle

I’d like to thank you all for coming to the first Montreal NewTech meetup tonight at Station-C. For those of you who missed it, I’ll be posting the demos soon.

We had three great demos tonight, and hopefully we’ll continue to showcase other cool Montreal startups every month. Our next meetup will be either on Nov 4th or 11th. I’ll update the group page when we know for sure. For now, there are a few things you could do to contribute to the Montreal tech community:

• Participate! There are several other networking events in Montreal. Start going to some of them and get involved in the community.
• Tell people what you’re working on. If you’d like to demo your product/startup at the next NewTech, please email me at demo@mtlnewtech.com.
• If you’re a blogger, photographer, video blogger, write about the startups who demo as well as other interesting people you meet in these events.

Here’s the line up for next week’s meetup:

Brownbook.net - the business directory that anyone can edit. (Presented by Basil Berntsen)

Tungle - free web-based scheduling service that makes it easy to coordinate meetings with other professionals no matter where they are or what time management software or groupware application they use. (Presented by Jacou Sarrazin)

XtraNormal - It’s an easy & automated movie-making webapp. Without any skills in 3D or movie direction, users can create their own movies from our template library using only text as the input. Everything is generated automatically. (Official launch is tomorrow - Oct 6th)

Special thanks to Station-C for providing the space and supporting the Montreal Tech community and YowTRIP (aka me) for the refreshments.

Station-C - first coworking space in Montreal.

YowTRIP - Social network for travelers.

See you all on Tuesday!

Just a reminder that the first Montreal NewTech meetup is next Tuesday (Oct 7th). If you’re planning to attend, please go to the Meetup.com page and RSVP as the space is limited.

The event will take place at Station-C, the first Montreal coworking space, at 5369 Boulevard Saint-Laurent, suite 430 at 7pm.

Here’s how the event will go:

1) Four startups will demo their product for 5 minutes each, followed by 5 minutes Q&A.
2) At the end of the demos, anybody can make any quick announcement to the group.
3) We hang out at Station-C to network with the presenters and other attendees.

There is a lot going on in the Montreal tech community and in order for this event to be successful and interesting for the community, we need to start sharing ideas and contributing to each others. So, if you have something ready to show to the community, please contact me!

We’re still looking for a couple of startups to demo! E-mail me at demo@mtlnewtech.com 

I look forward to seeing the demos and meeting you all next week!

Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

I have created a Montreal NewTech Lending Team page, so if you have lended money to other entrepreneurs through Kiva, please join our community there. If you haven’t, I encourage you to check it out. The site is full of hard working entrepreneurs from developing countries, you can lend as little as $25 and make a huge difference in somebody’s life and their community.

The first Montreal NewTech Meetup will be held at Station-C (5369 Boulevard Saint-Laurent #430) on October 7th. If you’re planning on attending it, please RSVP at http://newtech.meetup.com/127/calendar/8674645/

We’re also looking for four startups who would like to demo their latest product and get feedback from the Montreal Tech Community. If you’re interested, please email me at demo@mtlnewtech.com.

Each demo will last five minutes, followed by a five minutes Q&A. At the end of the demos, we’ll have about one hour to ask additional questions and network.

We hope to see you all there!

Yesterday we had our first Montreal NewTech meetup at Brutopia. It wasn’t an official meetup and we had no demos, but it was a great time with some Montreal tech enthusiasts. We had about 10 people talking about technology and projects they’re working on.

On a personal level, it was great for me to meet some people on my second day in Montreal. So, if you couldn’t make it yesterday, there’s still lot of opportunities to get involved in the Montreal Tech community!

There are a lot of different events happening weekly. I’ll post them here under the “More Events in Montreal” section. Some other sources for what’s happening in Montreal are: Montreal Tech Watch and TechVibes.

Here are a few events happening next week (if you know of others, please share them):

• BitNorth Conference - Sept 5-7
• Montreal Video 2.0 - Sept 8
• Montreal Entrepreneur Breakfast - Sept 9

And there’s always something else going on… Every single week, so come join the Montreal Tech community. Share what you’re working on, see what others are doing, get involved!

We’re now looking for people who would like to demo their startup/project in our October NewTech meetup. So, if you’re looking to get feedback, alpha/beta users, partners, investment… That’s a great opportunity for us all to help each others out. Send me an email at: demo@mtlnewtech.com

You show your web app for 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes Q&A.

Hi all, I’m in here in Colorado in final preparations to come to Montreal on Monday. I would like to remind you about our first meetup on Tuesday (Sept 2nd). There will be no demos at this meetup. Just an informal get together at Brutopia for some good beer and talk startups.

So, if you still have some room for more beer after Startup Drinks tonight, I would love to meet you all next week.

If you do plan on attending it and have a Meetup.com account, please RSVP here. (If you decide last minute, no worries, just come by on Tuesday and look for us)

I’m going to bring my camera and maybe we can take some video of some of us introducing ourselves to the community: what we’re working on, what we’re looking for… anything. Then I can share it in here for others to see… So, prepare your pitch if you’d like to share anything.

Hope to meet you all next week. I’ll be wearing a red Meetup.com shirt

PS: You can also join our Facebook group and/or our LinkedIn group!

The first BitNorth Conference is another tech event happening in the Montreal area. It will take place on the weekend of September 5-7 in Lake MacDonald, QC.

In their words: “The format of the event is collaborative; attendees are expected to contribute. Everyone has to be prepared to present for 10 minutes, moderate, show a video, or participate in a panel surrounding the theme; then the organizers pick the presentations and content from what’s submitted. We’re hoping this will lead to lots of people with strong opinions and great discussion.”

This event is organized by Bitcurrent, Syntenic, IDG Communications, Flow Consulting and Akoha.