Pat Phelan and Florian Seroussi, two of the co-founders of MaxRoam have saved their customers a million dollars in the past year! MaxRoam is a SIM card that you can put into your GSM phone so that when you travel you don’t get charged roaming rates. Brilliant? Absolutely.
MaxRoam launched at TechCrunch40 last year and has [...]

This Thursday night should be lots of fun. I’ve been invited to present as part of a round-table of local CEOs, VCs, and Angel investors  about what it takes to start a company without significant outside investment. It should be quite entertaining so if you’re free this Thursday night make sure to drop by.
This is [...]

Its that time again. Ottawa DemoCamp9 is on Monday at a new location. The big news is that Ottawa’s top blogger, Alec Saunders, will be our MC. Should be lots of fun.
For those of you that don’t know, DemoCamp is an amazing event where some of Ottawa’s Up and Coming Tech Stars present the latest [...]

The following is a guest post by good friend Harley Finkelstein in response to an article from reportonbusiness.com entitled: A tech saviour’s manifesto:

Mr. Macdonald,
I recently read your manifesto article in the globe and mail.
To be honest, and as a 24 year old Law/MBA grad student and concurrently the founder of a tech venture firm, I [...]

Pat Phelan, Telcom Rockstar – Serial Entrepreneur, just launched a new service called TwitterFone where you can make your Twitter posts via voice. Simply brilliant! I really think that this will get a lot more people hooked on Twitter (about time!). Make sure to head over to TwitterFone!
If you like TwitterFone, you’ll also love MaxRoam. [...]

Kwout.com is an amazing tool for blogging. Everytime I want to create a screenshot and use it to paste into my blog, I head over to kwout.com. Its really simple to use… This is one of those must use services!
Here is a screenshot (courtesy of Kwout.com):

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I met Simon Chen at the last DemoCamp in Ottawa and he mentioned his new project called Sixent.com. I just tried out the service and created my own personal profile here: http://sixent.com/aydin/Public
Here is a screenshot:

I like Sixent since it gives me LOTS of privacy options… I get to determine who sees what and what is [...]

The Web Weekend is the first weekend being organized (May 9-11). Motivated professionals and amateurs work together in order to create a company and launch a web product in a weekend. Make sure to sign up here: http://www.ottawaw.com/
Ottawa Web Weekend is being organized by Marc-Andre Plouffe and hosted by Ian Graham’s CodeFactory.
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* Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 from 7pm to 9pm
* Location: The Velvet Room, 62 1/2 York Street, in the market
* Format for 6 demos: 2 minute introduction, 8 minute demo, 5 minutes for Q&A and discussion

What is DemoCamp?
Six demos by members of the Ottawa high tech community. Read more about it at AboutDemoCampOttawa. [...]

Remember the Milk is one heck of a ToDoList application. It will plug into your Blackberry, your Gmail Account, and your Google Calendar Account. I absolutely love it! The integration is amazing! I highly recommend everyone start using this website to manage their lives…
Here is a screenshot of the Gmail integration:

Here is a smaller image:

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