Fred Brunel is a friend of mine. He used to be the software architect at IN FUSIO and back then I’ve been working with him on a daily basis to industrialize our Online Transaction Platform for mobile industry services. Not only does Frederic have a genuine passion for information and communication technologies, but he also has this rare ability to transmit the passion. In addition, he is not this type of techno addict that just develop features to enjoy the technology : Frederic always is business driven. Last but not least Fred has been pushing me to blog ever since 2004 !

Fred has joined XtraNormal in Montreal a year ago as Director of Product Development. He published on his blog the presentation XtraNormal did at Demo08 in San Francisco.

I have been amazed by their software application. (Note to Fidji : this is exactly the type of apps you’re interested in). Their product has a great interface to help creates animation and small clips from text entered by the user. These video clips can then be uploaded to social web apps such as Facebook, MySpace or Google. Awesome !

Check out the presentation here.

I am very glad to announce that, unsurprinsingly (considering the quality of their software), XtraNormal has won an award during Demo08.

Congratulations to XtraNormal, and great job Fred !

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4 Responses to “XtraNormal at Demo08”

1. Fidji SIMO says:

   February 1, 2008 at 01:38

   You know me well ceciil, I’m sure I’ll love it! I just registered to the beta

   I also follow Fred on Twitter and on his blog, which is absolutely always very interesting.

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2. Jeremy Fain says:

   February 1, 2008 at 01:59

   WTF! Very impressive. Congrats to Fred Brunel for driving the technical team that came up with such a beautiful, Xtra web app? Btw, I have a question for Fred: how is the startup ecosystem in Montreal? And the Canadian software industry in general?

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3. Fred Brunel says:

   February 1, 2008 at 05:51

   Hi Cecil,

   Thanks for the nice words, very appreciated.

   The webapp shows only a small part of our technology. I’m also working on a full desktop version that would allow you to create more interesting movies. My vision is: GarageBand for Movies.

   @jeremy — the startup ecosystem is quite young but very active. We have a lots of conferences like Barcamp, StartupcampMontreal or Yulbiz.

   I was at the premiere of StartupcampMontreal last week and it was great. Lots of interesting startup and VC. Some of the startups there also demoed at DEMO.

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4. mfubib says:

   March 3, 2009 at 06:46

   Great post, thanks.

   The thing I love about xtranormal is that it is still in beta, so it just keeps getting better!

   I have posted a demo on using it and a review (if you are interested) here:

   http://www.matthewbibby.com/blog/xtranormal/

   Cheers,

   Matt.

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