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The App Store Doesn’t Matter

9 December 2009 / Comments

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 [...]

If You Can Type, You Can Make Movies

9 October 2008 / Comments

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 and the [...]

Xtranormal Launch Mashface

29 September 2008 / Comments

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 of fun [...]

Akoha Sneak Peak

29 August 2008 / Comments

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 have [...]

Rogers Announces Abusive iPhone Rates in Canada

27 June 2008 / Comments

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 and 800 minutes [...]

StartupCamp Montreal 2

17 May 2008 / Comments

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. This [...]

Simplicity Sells

23 March 2008 / Comments

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 your [...]

Blitzweekend

29 February 2008 / Comments

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 sponsors are [...]

Xtranormal at DEMO08

30 January 2008 / Comments

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.

DEMO08

26 January 2008 / Comments

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 at [...]