Congratulations due to 9 Canadian technology firms (and Overlay.TV)

Ten Canadian firms that are using social networking tools and techniques creatively to win new business and influence customers have been named in an IDC report on the subject titled: 10 Canadian Web 2.0 Companies to Watch.

Authored by Krista Collins, analyst for Canadian ICT Innovation Export at IDC Canada, the study focuses on the following firms:

AdHack, a Vancouver-based, three-man company that provides a hosted site where ad creators can showcase their portfolio to various companies and potential ad buyers

dthree Inc. in Mississauga, Ont., that helps businesses contextualize online and offline interactive marketing campaigns.

Octopz Inc., a Toronto developer of an online collaboration tool that enables people work together on more than 100 different types of files.

Overlay.TV, an Ottawa company that has developed a way to tag items on videos and digital photos, and allow users to embed these on social networking site, Web sites or even blogs

PlanetEye, a Toronto-firm putting a new spin on travel Web sites by making it possible for footloose people to develop their own vacation tours using video, digital photos, online maps which can be hooked up to a GPS system.

Ramius Corp. This Ottawa company builds social networking systems for businesses using blogs, online communities, profiles, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools. Its Community Zero software was designed to help companies to build secure, scalable online communities.

SceneCaster, a Richmond Hill, Ont.-company that used its decade-long experience in Web services and rich media to develop a site where an community members can create online vignettes using virtual objects.

Standout Jobs, a Montreal-based Web firm that helps companies create job sites that use videos, blogs, podcasts, polling widgets and other Web 2.0 tools to generate better jobseeker contact and feedback.

Tomoye Corp. In ancient Japanese, the word tomoye means "revolution in the universe". This Gatineau, Quebec company is essentially an online expert advice aggregator for businesses. It helps professionals learn and solve problems by networking and collaborating inside and outside of the companies they belong to.

Tungle, from a Montreal-based company is a free Outlook plug-in that helps users easily share their calendars to other people without the need for expensive exchange servers. Users can coordinate meetings across platforms such as Google Calendar, iCal, Lotus Notes and even with people not using Tungle.

Overlay.TV is proud to have been part of this report and congratulates all the Canadian firms that are named herein.

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