QuebecValley

What I want in a blog platform

Ben and I were exchanging about micro-blogging and he made me realize that I should sit down and write an article about what I would like to do with my own blog. Blogging is great but sometimes you want to do things that are not possible. Now I understand that perhaps there are plugins for [...]

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To copyright or not to copyright?

Sylvain Carle woke me up yesterday (not literally) about copyright issues. During a discussion regarding the startup listing initiative, he brought an interesting point that my blog had a copyright on it. To be honest, I haven’t really paid any attention about this when I installed the template, which funny enough, was an open source [...]

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New custom search engine

I started experimenting with Custom Google Engine and decided to add this functionality to my blog. I created a “custom search engine” and hand-picked only relevant web sites in Quebec, mostly blogs at this time. The results are interesting and I will try to work a little bit to expand the site database. And this [...]

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New feature – Quebec startup directory

I finally finished the first part of a larger project. You may now post your own startup profile. I shamelessly stole the basic idea from TechCrunch Base but adapted it to my preferences. Yes I know that YulStart has a similar listing but many more features are coming soon and this is just the tip [...]

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