17 July 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Defensio, Startup and business, Technology
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!
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10 July 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Uncategorized
Camilo just sent me that… so true! You know what I’ll do tomorrow
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17 June 2008
By Carl Mercier
In Uncategorized

If you’re interested, the podcast for Building Developer-Friendly Web Service APIs @ SxSW was just released. I was on the panel with Avi Bryant (DabbleDB), Leah Culver (Pownce), Ari Steinberg (Facebook) and Ben Vinegar (Freshbooks). Not a bad line-up!
Here’s the podcast
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api, dabbledb, Defensio, facebook, freshbooks, podcast, pownce, sxsw, web service