January 2009
74 posts
5pm: BaseCamp Alternative →
Didn’t try this online project management webapp yet, but it’s here as a reminder to. Let me know if you try it.
TwitThis →
After the amazing ShareThis widget, here’s the TwitThis.
Facebook Connect: The Next Great App War →
Interesting article (or good surface analysis) on how the Facebook Connect may change the social app widget integration in the coming year.
The Facebook chat integration to the CNN presidential inauguration was indeed the first thing of mention since the introduction of the Facebook Connect API.
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Google's GDrive - Close To Launch? →
Looks like many new rumors let us believe Google is near to launch GDrive, its unified online cloud storage service. Microsoft has already launched the Live Drive in beta sign-up.
I’m currently using JungleDisk and the Amazon S3 cloud service to backup all my documents, pictures and music.
In the end, the ease of use and the price plan will play in my final decision. Currently nobody...
Pipl - People Search →
Search for your name (or the ones of your friends) and see all the traces you (or them) are leaving on the Web.
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WatchYou Already Know
Another great stop motion creation by Jessica Biragel.
Just beautiful
(via Jessica Bigarel)
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iClipper: iPhone Copy and Paste →
iClipper is a Bookmarklet that can be used in Safari to copy content and paste it in an email.
Not need to jailbreak your iPhone as it’s only a javascript Bookmarklet. It’s not so easy to install so follow the instruction.
This is it until one of the most requested features (including the avaibility of the horizontal keyboard in the Mail and SMS app) is added to the iPhone.
Gmail On Gears →
In the next few days Google will roll-out the offline capability of Gmail. Yah baby! We are waiting for this one for a long time now.
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An Interview with Tumblr Founder David Karp →
A very interesting interview by Doree Shafrir:
By the time Mr. Karp was 19, a new word had entered the lexicon: “tumblelog,” which referred to short-form blogging.
Fascinated by this new form of blogging, Mr. Karp says he “kept waiting” for one of the established blog platform players to set up a platform for tumblelogging. When, after a year, that hadn’t happened, Mr. Karp decided to do it...
WatchBeacon at Lightwave 2009
Lightwave Festival in Dublin, a fun and immersive experience designed by Chris O’Shea
(via Vimeo)
“Zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds!”
– Ultimate Aero EV - The World’s Fastest Electric Car
“Google calculates that an unprotected user would have received close to 45,000...”
– ReadWriteWeb
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Google In Quotes →
I just found out about this little app from the Google Labs: a quotes comparison tool.
Select two presidents (or public speakers) and see what they have to say about sensitive subjects.
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Palm Pre is beating the iPhone at its own game →
An interesting post by Baekdal about the new upcoming Palm Pré iPhone look-a-like mobile phone:
The unexpected sometimes happens, and the new Palm Pre is very cool - especially from an interactive design perspective.
While there are many similarities with the iPhone in terms of the interface, there are a number of new things that really makes a difference.
First of all is the mode-free...
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Blizzard Diablo 3 →
I just learned today that Blizzard Entertainment is preparing Diablo 3.
Diablo is the first game I ever purchased. Before, I always managed to get my PC games from my friends, but Diablo was requiring an unique ID key to play on the Battle.net network. I bought the game the first day it came out and after being installed, I didn’t left my chair for 16 hours straight. 16 hours without a...
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Google AJAX APIs Playground →
The new Google’s official way to show Javascript samples.
Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google’s eight Javascript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries, and Earth).
Jolicloud - NetBook's New OS →
Tariq Krim (Netvibes Founder) who is working on Jolicloud, a NetBook Operating System:
We love netbooks: they are cheap, compact, light and always connected via 3G.
What we didn’t like so much was the user experience so we decided to build our own.
We used Linux and made it boot faster and we optimized it for surf and cloud computing. We redesigned the interface and integrated some cool...
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“It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 millions listeners, 13 years for TV, 4...”
Obama Action Figure →
(via Gizmodo)
Garagiste
Fred: Bonjour, je vous appel pour savoir si vous avez finalement terminé l'évaluation des réparations.
Garagiste: Oui, nous avons effectué les réparations sur la transmission.
Fred: Je vous ai demandé une évaluation des réparations. Pas de réparer le tout!!!
Garagiste: Ben euh... Fallait ben que je répare le tout pour savoir comment ça coute.
Fred: !@$@#
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UX > Audi White Dots →
The new Audi site is entirely based on a multitude of white dots that make car, engine, geabox, etc. You can even play with these items, which make waves when they approach the mouse.
100 Meters Of Existence Photo Project →
Simon Høgsberg spent the last 17 months on creating this impressive 100 meters long photography project. A must see.
“Mistakes happen. It’s how you handle them that really matters.”
– 37signals on Hulu CEO: “We screwed up royally”
Writing Decisions: Less is More →
The behind the scene writing process on 37Signal’s Highrise marketing page. Good post.
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“To be effective, a site must not only be simple, pleasant and helpful, but also...”
– Mel and JY (the best usability experts I know and have the pleasure to work with)
Qualcomm Just Bought ATI From AMD →
Qualcomm (who has most of the patents in the mobile space) paid 65 millions while AMD paid 5.4 billions few years ago for the graphic chipmakers ATI Technologies.
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Ustream iPhone Application Now Available →
You can now watch the Inauguration of Obama live on your iPhone.
uStream.tv is available for free on in the iTunes App Store.
Blackberry Storefront Accepting App Applications →
When you can’t take risks and innovate then you follow.
WatchHulu has unlocked their player for the inauguration of Obama to all canadians (and probably the all world) today. Thanks guys!
“If Content is King,
Then Original Content is God.”
– Thane Calder at a meeting
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My Old Blog
In February 2003, Google announced they bought Blogger from Pyra Labs.
Still wondering what I would have to say to the world, I decided to begin blogging in August 2004. At the time I was writing exclusively in French.
Few months ago, my good friend (I still wonder why I consider him a good friend after what he has done!) deleted all the files and images from the server where my blog was...
The Shit Box →
Interesting concept!
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Stack Overflow →
Stack Overflow is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers — regardless of platform or language. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
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The New Upcoming Apple Mac Mini Based on Nvidia... →
The new Nvidia Ion platform combines Geforce 9400M graphics with the Intel Atom processor. The new platform will give future netbooks and nettops the much needed boost they need to handle HD video and modern operating systems.
Nvidia promises the new graphics solution will increase graphical performance of Intel Atom systems by up to 10 fold, which would allow a game such as Call of Duty 4 to...
WatchA short history of marketing, a little video done by Michael Reissinger for Scholz & Friends
WatchStar Wars Anthology (or retold)
By someone who half-saw the movies kind of 20 years ago and animated by Joe Nicolosi. A piece of art. Nothing less.
(ya again, via Frank - your are my eternal source of weirdo stuff and you know it)
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A Look at Tim Cook, The CEO Of Apple While Steve... →
Yesterday, I bought some Apple stocks, I was waiting for the stock to fall back at $85 to buy some. So when I heard about the leave of absence of Steve Jobs after the market was closed, I told myself: “What the hell I just did?”.
After some reflection I told myself that Steve Jobs is probably just the public face/leader for some time now and his second in command is probably running...
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Poolga - iPhone Wallpapers And Backgrounds →
Just delicious iPhone wallpapers.
As Frank wrote on his blog, too bad their is not automatic function or app who can randomly select a wallpaper on the site and assign it as the background of the day on your iPhone as all the wallpapers on Poolga are gorgeous.
(via Frank)
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Google Is Shutting Down A Butch Of Services →
The services that are shutting down included Google Video Uploads (make sense as Google own also YouTube), Notebook future development (I’m very sad to here that as the Firefox addon for it is kicking ass), Jaiku (a Twitter like micro-blogging platform that has never been launched), Google Catalogue Search (not a big surprise if you ask me) and the Mashup Editor (that nobody knows about...