I’m back from the SXSW 09 Interactive Festival that took place in Austin, Texas.

Tons of people, dozens of panels and keynotes, tradeshows and parties. There was a lot to see and people to meet.

A crazy week for Nicolas and me.

Austin, Texas

For my first time in Texas, Austin welcomed us with a couple of  days of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, like million of people, I’ve been greeted by a scary Google screen of death while trying to access my Gmail account,

Yeah right, I’ve been told everything is fine.

I know those companies do their best to protect your data — after all, it’s their core business –, but we all know a massive outage could [...]

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 [...]

I’m back from the Web 2.0 Expo that took place last week in the Moscone Center, San Francisco.

The schedule was tight with dozens of conferences, keynotes and companies in the exhibit hall. There was definitely a lot of see.

The Moscone Center is kind of a famous place — this is where Steve Jobs made all [...]

Web 2.0 Expo will be held next week in San Franciso, California from April 22–25.

This year, I’m really excited to attend the event and I look forward to meet great people. There are tons of conferences; I’ve already cherry picked my favorites but it’s still a very busy schedule.

I’ve also registered my profile to [...]

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.

I’ve been an early adopter of a lot of web apps for the last couple of years and I’ve tried a lot more in 2007. But I’ve found myself using very few of these apps on a day to day basis; and none of them were published in 2007.

Here are some of my favorite (in [...]

For about one and a half year, BigNumbr — one of my Web 2.0 experimental project — have been dormant, getting virtually no traffic. Having done no promotion, I’ve never quite expected anything about it.

A couple of weeks ago though, BigNumbr had a stroke coming from nowhere.

Unfortunately being hosted on a shared account, BigNumbr seems [...]