Canada's leading Web 2.0 pioneers

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/canadas-leading-web-2.0-pioneers

by roblewis • 17 years ago

24 19 17 years ago

rantfoil• 17 years ago

I've said this before and I will say it again -- any list of Canadian entrepreneurs without backtype.com on it is a sorely incomplete list. They're building real core tech that is powering dozens of other sites.

kitsguy• 17 years ago

Agreed - looks like this list only includes Web 2.0 companies that are located in Canada. While Backtype was founded by Canadians, I believe they have moved to Silicon Valley??

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

Ottawa is completely missing from the list.

paulgb4• 17 years ago

As is Kitchener-Waterloo.

elai• 17 years ago

That's like saying Washington DC is completely missing from the list. Ottawa city is bit of a boring town.

paulgb4• 17 years ago

Ottawa has generally had a lot of tech and software (Corel, for example), so I do think it is surprising they aren't on the list. Shopify, for example, is based in Ottawa.

vaksel3• 17 years ago

I just can't take any list seriously, that has a twitter app in the top 10.

   #10 HootSuite, Vancouver - A Twitter toolbox that manages multiple Twitter profiles

kingsley_20• 17 years ago

HootSuite lets a multi-person social media team manage tweets in a web based app that doesnt need to be downloaded (I'm a user). This can actually be a real business, unlike, oh, 90% of the twitter apps out there. Just because most of them are toys doesnt mean they all are.

gojomo• 17 years ago

HootSuite is one of only 3 listed that I'd heard of (HootSuite, FreshBooks, NowPublic), and I'd heard of it in a business context where people would pay -- a technical team at a Major Company sharing responsibility for a support Twitter account. So the dismissiveness is unwarranted.

vaksel3• 17 years ago

they may be fine as a stand alone business, but not as a top 10 business for an entire country

tyohn• 17 years ago

Gas Buddy is missing too.

sunir2• 17 years ago

It's great to see the Internet on fire in Canada. Most people don't realize that we have had some amazing Web companies come out of Canada, like Flickr and iStockPhoto and StumbleUpon and ClubPenguin, and it looks like we'll have a bunch more over the next few years. Congrats to all the winners!

Disclosure: I work at FreshBooks (and am very excited!)

JimmyL• 17 years ago

Got an email? I've got a few questions about FreshBooks...

sunir2• 17 years ago

For sure! sunir splat freshbooks dot comm

matthewking• 17 years ago

Shopify.com should probably be on there..

spitfire• 17 years ago

Some of those companies are absolute rubbish. Though voices.com looks very cool. I browsed around and if I had a need for voice acting I'd go there.

ThoughtFarmer looked like a neat idea. Then I saw their demo and pricing. $109/per seat, 100 seat minimum. For $4K I can buy an Xserve from apple that does the same thing, better.

I can't wait for the second dotcom crash.

Canada's leading Web 2.0 pioneers

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