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The Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Center (VIATeC) hosted Island Tech 2007 last Friday at the Victoria Conference Centre. With the IT recognized as the primary revenue producing industry in Victoria’s economy, Friday’s event had a confident, celebratory feel to it. Once the domain of small businesses, IT has made big contributions to Victoria’s re-emergence as one of Canada’s leadership cities. Collectively the technology sector injected over $1.7billion to the local economy in 2006.
Victoria’s tech sector is no longer led by small businesses either. Many of the names present at Island Tech such as AbeBooks, Neverblue Media, Carmanah Technologies, Falcon Software, Smart Dolphins IT Solutions, Vigil Health Solutions, EDS Advanced Solutions, Hydroxyl Systems and Metamend Search Engine Markting have achieved extraordinary success in their industries.
One new firm that stood out is Flock.com. Flock makes an easy-to-use open source web browser that pulls from various social media networks such as Flickr, Facebook and MySpace and displays posts at those networks in one browser window. Flock designed their social web browser based on, “… the vision that the web browser cand and should enable the richest user experience possible across information-gathering, communication, self-expression and interaction.” Founded in 2005 in Mountain View California, Flock’s development offices are in Victoria BC.
