Carl Mercier’s blog

The Montreal Startup Index for July 2008 is out.  To my amazement, BOTH my startups are in the top 15!

Ajaxwhois (recently acquired) is at #9, and Defensio is at #13.  Oddly enough, Defensio has a lot more traffic than Ajaxwhois.  However, API traffic is not reflected in those rankings and since 99.9% of our traffic comes through our API, Defensio is not scoring as high as it should.

I’m sure our friends from Praized will take the list by storm in the coming months.  Standout Jobs is also scoring pretty high.  Congrats to all!

I just noticed that a spam comment made it through on the article about Defensio’s launch on TechCrunch. How ironic is that? TechCrunch doesn’t use Defensio; they use a competing product instead.

Here are the obligatory screenshots:

Clicking on the author name takes you to this blatantly spam page:

Bottom line is: use Defensio! 

But seriously, shit happens… can’t blame TechCrunch for letting this one through.

I’m happy to be speaking not once but twice next week…The first one will take place on Tuesday the 4th during our monthly Montreal on Rails gathering. The topic will me “Where to deploy your Rails application on the cheap?”. I’ll primarily focus on VPS and Amazon EC2.On Thursday the 6th, I’ll be at StartupCamp Toronto to present my startup defensio.com. It’s been a while since I’ve been in Toronto and I definitely look forward to meet new people there.See you soon!