Paul Boutin wrote in “11 things I didn’t know about app development”, Most app discovery comes from viral word of mouth among customers, not from people searching app stores for something to download. I don’t know what it’s so much of a revelation to developers. The App Store is a warehouse of digital goods, a [...]

One week after we launched Mashface.com, we’re finally opening Xtranormal.com to the public. Xtranormal.com is a user-generated content website that feature an innovative and easy-to-use movie making application. This application uses our patented Text-to-Movie platform that automatically generates movies based on the most simple user input ever: text & icons; no skills required. The technology [...]

Today we launched our first product, Mashface, as a fun and free service to create movies in the style of Tetes a claques. Fire up your webcam, shoot parts of your face and mash them with the photos we provide; then share your video with your friends on Facebook or Youtube. We had a lot [...]

Yesterday nite, I was glad to being invited to a sneak preview of Akoha — a Montreal startup founded by Austin Hill and Alex Eberts. We had to sign a friendly NDA at the reception so I can’t say much about their product offering except that it’s a very surprising and original concept. It might [...]

Today, Rogers has announced its data plans for iPhone 3G. With no surprise they all suck pretty bad. No Unlimited Data, No Flexible Voice Plan The iPhone 3G comes with 4 plan. None of them include unlimited data, which is quite dissapointing. The premium plan, comes at $115 per month with a cap of 2GB [...]

A couple of days ago, I attended StartupCamp Montreal 2 that took place at the SAT. It’s an event where early stage companies share information and validate pitches live during a 8 minutes presentation; they get immediate feedback from investors and the audience. Keynotes were good and it was great to catchup with startup fellows. [...]

The Flip is a minimalistic camcorder that does only one thing and do it well, record video. This device has taken 13% market share in only one year. It’s the iPod of camcorders. The Flip has one push button to record video, wakes up in 2 seconds, has an integrated USB arm to connect to [...]

Blitzweekend just started tonite and I attented the kick-off party of this two days event, at the Sherbrooke University. The objective of Blitzweekend is simple but quite challenging: gather your team, build and launch a product in the time of a week-end. But Blitzweekend is more than a code challenge for geeks. Some of the [...]

I’m glad our presentation at DEMO today went fine. For those of you who haven’t seen it live, here is the video of the 6 stressful minutes. UPDATE (31-01-08): Nice. We just won the DEMOgod Award.

Xtranormal, the startup I work for in Montreal, is going to present our technology on-stage at the DEMO event, on Wednesday, Jan. 30th and at station 42 for those who can make it to the event. DEMO is a launchpad for emerging technology taking place in Palm Springs, California. Lots of startups are getting launched [...]