Montréal Start-up Index - May 2008

Greg on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Montreal, Start-up Index · No Comments

The index ranks Montréal area tech start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic rankings. Criteria and other details are available on the Start-up Index page. This month, there may be some large shifts due to an overhaul of Alexa’s traffic sources.

If you have any suggestions for companies to add to the index, please post them in the comments for this post.

Rank + /- Name Alexa Compete Average
1 Wikitravel 5,110 7,240 6,175
2 Weblo 14,253 11,869 13,061
3 N Unyk 6,004 36,479 21,242
4 N Podbean 28,744 26,417 27,581
5 N TagTele 76,580 31,096 53,838
6 N WatchMojo 66,379 77,498 71,939
7 4 Mobivox 46,882 130,812 88,847
8 3 Standout Jobs 108,140 85,371 96,756
9 5 NewsletterArchive 144,981 72,202 108,592
10 3 MediaScrape 236,545 127,129 181,837
11 2 Ajaxwhois 186,913 188,004 187,459
12 4 Tungle 304,569 180,382 242,476
13 2 Defensio 245,495 510,296 377,896
14 N Akoha 572,299 294,495 433,397
15 1 Roll A Name 186,007 701,883 443,945
16 12 Cakemail 531,679 458,241 494,960
17 8 Cozimo 203,782 793,114 498,448
18 2 SmartHippo 842,739 418,080 630,410
19 11 Earideas 494,266 833,741 664,004
20 N Collectik 776,788 576,643 676,716
21 3 Inpowr 792,988 913,613 853,301
22 ClixConnect 1,276,165 560,389 918,277
23 8 LibriVox 1,596,407 525,429 1,060,918
24 2 WebCargo 1,667,891 962,597 1,315,244
25 8 Ici Rive-Nord 651,220 - 651,220
26 5 Courrielleur 989,183 - 989,183
27 N iLovetoPlay.com 1,397,543 - 1,397,543
28 6 EmbeddedCookbook 3,883,152 - 3,883,152
29 6 My Carpool Station 4,273,051 - 4,273,051
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Ottawa Start-up Index - May 2008

Greg on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Ottawa, Start-up Index · 1 Comment

Welcome to the first installment of the Techvibes Ottawa Start-up Index. The index ranks Ottawa area tech start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic rankings. Criteria and other details are available on the Start-up Index page.

If you have any suggestions for companies to add to the index, please post them in the comments for this post.

Rank Name Alexa Compete Average
1 TravelPod 8,817 8,191 8,504
2 Shopify 97,046 39,918 68,482
3 Overlay.TV 196,929 285,662 241,296
4 Deensoft 286,330 509,312 397,821
5 LavaBlast Software 525,665 284,885 405,275
6 LoyaltyMatch 891,176 325,979 608,578
7 Streem 518,207 867,952 693,080
8 Workspace 2,220,842 698,834 1,459,838
9 Sumalytics 518,207 - 518,207
10 DevShop Inc. 1,015,526 - 1,015,526
11 CitySales.ca 1,311,091 - 1,311,091
12 Mercury Grove 1,873,319 - 1,873,319
13 RaceDV 7,449,948 - 7,449,948
14 Noleo 7,492,878 - 7,492,878
15 Versature 8,594,352 - 8,594,352
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Toronto Start-up Index - May 2008

Greg on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Start-up Index, Toronto · 4 Comments

The index ranks Toronto area tech start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic rankings. Criteria and other details are available on the Start-up Index page. This month, there may be some large shifts due to an overhaul of Alexa’s traffic sources.

If you have any suggestions for companies to add to the index, please post them in the comments for this post.

Rank + /- Name Alexa Compete Average
1 b5media 14,193 4,080 9,137
2 iBegin 30,542 15,939 23,241
3 3 CoverItLive 116,683 20,411 68,547
4 FreshBooks 109,411 35,402 72,407
5 ZipLocal 60,740 102,991 81,866
6 1 SharedReviews 83,505 107,931 95,718
7 WildApricot 102,491 90,163 96,327
8 N Forum Warz 32,221 218,093 125,157
9 12 Groovle 73,793 232,758 153,276
10 5 Carpages 116,040 198,990 157,515
11 1 Onaswarm 197,765 117,550 157,658
12 1 Awareness 169,345 185,555 177,450
13 N Viigo 139,604 244,410 192,007
14 1 Zerofootprint 260,950 149,395 205,173
15 5 ConceptShare 138,006 299,289 218,648
16 8 Sneakerplay 76,136 392,099 234,118
17 3 PokerSpace 213,744 260,700 237,222
18 2 OfficeZilla 179,782 294,910 237,346
19 N Idée 261,216 253,594 257,405
20 2 MadWhips 235,748 285,300 260,524
21 1 Quotiki 320,011 211,720 265,866
22 N PlanetEye 408,290 169,590 288,940
23 N ClutterMe 416,765 167,754 292,260
24 7 Omnidate 233,181 356,841 295,011
25 N Sweetspot.ca 278,461 357,710 318,086
26 14 FileMobile 268,776 409,774 339,275
27 N Learnhub 252,453 466,967 359,710
28 N Fivelimes 240,825 479,649 360,237
29 N ChickAdvisor 350,532 373,492 362,012
30 12 HomeStars 382,303 360,792 371,548
31 N I Love Rewards 550,529 244,471 397,500
32 N Keyword Envy 517,546 385,637 451,592
33 3 Octopz 513,363 430,195 471,779
34 13 Cozimo 203,782 793,114 498,448
35 2 YowTRIP 510,336 488,405 499,371
36 10 BumpTop 356,495 648,094 502,295
37 N Refresh Partners 1,019,886 33,924 526,905
38 11 mDialog 675,884 466,501 571,193
39 16 JobLoft 433,639 748,909 591,274
40 N Homecourt 663,148 580,540 621,844
41 19 GigPark 316,386 995,956 656,171
42 14 Domainer 596,256 788,113 692,185
43 17 FlashcardDB 656,017 756,872 706,445
44 20 Ipartee 506,596 922,856 714,726
45 N CommunityLend 763,986 699,133 731,560
46 12 myhood.ca 662,611 953,262 807,937
47 N ePresence 779,663 938,044 858,854
48 N Blueprint 1,280,742 577,531 929,137
49 20 CellClients 1,356,032 855,080 1,105,556
50 19 CastRoller 1,896,468 495,306
51 21 Wellocities 1,774,237 772,380
52 9 FeelingBullish 2,175,830 655,290
53 N Paymentus 4,488,076 579,433
54 22 Banzza 499,455 -
55 N ClearSky Media 878,025 -
56 17 Cytoscape 1,048,810 -
57 N TalentEgg 1,402,992 -
58 17 SlashID 1,429,894 -
59 21 ParkingSpots.com 1,455,761 -
60 23 ViaVol 1,636,187 -
61 N Chatroll 1,979,556 -
62 N Civiside 1,979,556 -
63 N clearRoot 1,979,556 -
64 20 Addictive Mobility 2,164,541 -
65 23 Clay Tablet 2,305,208 -
66 N SpatialView 2,552,557 -
67 N Ontogenix 2,566,718 -
68 23 EasyPost.ca 2,962,037 -
69 23 NexJ Systems 3,020,507 -
70 30 Ogrant 3,095,856 -
71 23 Realosophy 3,217,330 -
72 25 xkoto 3,290,346 -
73 N Ondah 3,309,999 -
74 N Jazinga 5,928,244 -
75 N Homezilla 7,239,832 -
76 27 Pursudo 9,047,480 -
77 N Natural Semantic Modules 14,624,120 -
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Atlantic Canada Start-up Index - May 2008

Greg on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Halifax, Start-up Index · 2 Comments

Welcome to the first edition of the Techvibes Atlantic Canada Start-up Index. The index ranks Atlantic Canada start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic rankings. Criteria and other details are available on the Start-up Index page.

This list feels too slim to us, and there must be some companies we’ve overlooked. If you have any suggestions for companies to add to the index, please post them in the comments for this post.

Rank Name Alexa Compete Average
1 ScienceHack 228,434 119,401 173,918
2 Radian6 207,495 189,039 198,267
3 YourTeamOnline 1,987,921 269,606 1,128,764
4 WorkHack 635,138 - 635,138
5 Spheric 2,549,608 - 2,549,608
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Start-Up Index Leaders Heading to Banff

Rob on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Calgary, Digital Media, Edmonton, Events, Toronto · No Comments

nextMEDIA - The Future of Digital Content is just around the corner (June 6-8th) and the speaker line-up is shaping up. Four of Canada’s digital media innovators are scheduled to talk about what it takes to launch and grow a successful company during a Sunday session.

Hear from the country’s hottest digital media innovators, and learn what it takes to achieve success. What made our speakers Canada’s hottest innovators? What are the key factors required to make it happen? How did they get the financing and support to get to where they are today? Can you build a global success story from Canada? What are their predications for the technology and digital media industries and where are their more unfulfilled opportunities? What should we all look out for into 2009?

Session speakers include Jeremy Wright of Toronto’s b5media; Leila Boujanane of Toronto’s Idée Inc.; Boris Wertz of Edmonton’s Nexopia.com; and Markus Frind of Vancouver’s own PlentyOfFish.com. Our Start-Up Indexes confirm that nextMEDIA has indeed got the hottest digital media players on the panel - b5media is currently #1 for Toronto, Nexopia is #1 for Alberta, and PlentyOfFish.com was #1 for Vancouver until somebody suggested we check their ID. Idée Inc. has been added to May’s Toronto Start-Up Index which will be published later today.

The session will be moderated by Ellie Rubin of Ellie Corporation. nextMEDIA takes place at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta prior to the Banff World Television Festival.

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PunchMuch picture messaging: Fail?

Warren on May 15th, 2008 · Filed under Digital Media, Mobile, Toronto, Video · No Comments

PunchMuch, a digital TV channel driven off of interactive elements like viewers texting the station to vote for videos, is teaming up with Toronto’s MyThum Interactive to create North Aerica’s first mobile picture messaging service for broadcast TV. Viewers will now be able to send their pictures to air, along with traditional texting.

Though CTV (owners of PunchMuch) refer to these steps as “leading the way in viewer controlled, lean-foward interactive television”, one has ton wonder why a teen wouldn’t just go to Youtube or other video services and not bother with a clumsy interface mashing two fairly incompatible technologies together. Television isn’t very well suited to interactivity in the first place, and music videos are increasingly becoming an irrelevant marketing tool in a world where OK GO gets millions of hits online from a clever, low-budget music video they created themselves.

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e-Preneur Book Launch

Brendon on May 14th, 2008 · Filed under Citizen Journalism, Events, Social Media, Vancouver, Web 2.0 · 2 Comments

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Mesh 2008 Sells Out

Rob on May 14th, 2008 · Filed under Events, Toronto · No Comments

Next week’s Mesh Conference in Toronto is sold-out but don’t worry if you didn’t manage to grab a ticket. Techvibes’ Varun Mathur will be live-blogging the two-day event right here. Techvibes and the Globe and Mail are media sponsors of Mesh.

For those of you in Toronto that still want to participate in-person, meshU has a few seats available. It’s only one day and has some of the best “geek” content you’ll find anywhere. In addition, some of the Mesh after hours events are open to the public.

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Videographers turn Blogs into Bucks

Rob on May 14th, 2008 · Filed under Events, SEO, Vancouver, Video · No Comments

Gillian Shaw of the Vancouver Sun took in Reachd’s Video Training seminar yesterday and it sounds like she’s a video convert.

Ian Watt has never had any video training. He just got his first video camera for Christmas. But now he is the star of his own business video, transforming his blog into a live show in which he tours Vancouver dispensing advice, hitting real estate hot buttons, winning over fans and enraging critics.

On Tuesday, Watt was in a class of 20 aspiring Cecil B. DeMilles at a sold out session run by Reachd.com, a Vancouver training company launched by Stephen Jagger and Mike Stephenson, who also founded the real estate Web hosting and design site Ubertor.

Fourteen of the attendees were real estate agents and the rest represented a cross-section, including from the legal, recruiting and marketing professions. For a $200 fee, participants got the afternoon training session, plus a $150 Flip Ultra videocamera that takes up to an hour of video and plugs straight into a computer to download.

This first 20-spot session sold-out quickly but they’ve added a 2nd workshop on May 28th and set aside a free seat (and Flip camera) for a lucky Techvibes reader. Only eight people have entered the contest so far - so if you’re interested, be sure to enter now and we’ll pick a winner and announce it here on the blog on May 22nd.

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Programmer - Vision Critical

Rob on May 14th, 2008 · Filed under Paid Job Posts, Vancouver · No Comments

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