http://www.QuebecValley.com The Internet Startup Valley in Quebec Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:52:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What would you do if you had 10 years to come up with a product? What if you had no spending limit to finish your project? What unimaginable and amazing project would come out from a skunk team working secretly and swiftly during all these years? How about "nothing" ? While reading ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/11/16/the-10-years-old-project-failure/ Enough with the augmented reality thing! It's cool but can we move to real life applications? I won't be walking around holding up my iPhone at eye level just to get to a subway station. What if I'm riding a bike or driving a car? Useless! Voice-enabled direction by GPS ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/10/22/augmented-reality-sucks/ I patched my Firefox this morning and got this funny message: At least they're smart enough to pick the error. http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/09/04/firefox-fail/ This is fairly obvious but when there's a new product that's quite popular, try to look at an existing (or similar) product in another country and duplicate the successful ideas. Here's an example: Bixi. This is fairly new here in Montreal but "rent a bike" systems are not new. They ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/06/19/want-to-be-successful-build-around-the-bixi/ J'ai décidé de démarrer un nouveau blogue en français qui discutera de divers sujets mais en particulier de tout ce qui touche le web et la technologie pour les entreprises (petites, moyennes et grandes) ainsi que pour les gens en général. D'autres sujets comme la sécurité de l'information et la ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/04/27/pour-les-lecteurs-francophones-for-french-readers/ Once again, the Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast is here and I urge you to attend. Not because you get a free breakfast (yes, it's sponsored by Nestor) but because you'll meet lots of great people and you'll leave ready to take over the world! I find it very interesting and there's all ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/04/07/april-tech-entrepreneur-breakfast/ I was in the Toronto airport a few days ago and saw an ad for Roger's cellular phone service. It was actually promoting their international fixed rate roaming service and how you could call home from all those countries at a flat rate (more on that later). While I don't recall ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/03/16/dont-advertize-crap/ I was reading an article earlier about the record industry being "scared" of Apple. I really like this quote from Mr. Card of Forrester: “If it weren’t for Apple, God knows how bad the music industry would be,”. I guess it's called evolution. The main questions is, what would it take for ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/03/16/why-isnt-apple-a-record-label/ I haven't seen this one else where so here it goes: Dans le cadre de Capital Innovation 2009, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter mercredi le 25 mars 2009 au dîner-conférence de Guy Kawasaki, fondateur et PDG de Garage Technology Ventures. M. Kawasaki présentera son expérience en tant que "Apple Fellow" ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/03/16/dinner-with-guy-kawasaki/ Although I rarely use Twitter, I see it's value and I wish I had more time to use it. One of the problems is there is a lot of "noise". If you think about it, Twitter is really like a big IRC server having just one personalised channel. The difference is ... http://www.QuebecValley.com/2009/03/16/twitters-future/