Real world blog space: yellow chair stories

She placed a sign “advertising” the offer and a yellow chair outside her house, extending the boundaries of her home to encompass the boundaries of her wireless network. Both the sign and the chair defined a “real world blog space” which challenged the idea of “open network”. Check it out: yellow chair stories.

a cat watching a cat

Light blogging – its f***g damn hot in here, can’t concentrate or think clearly. So yeah, i should probably be partying.. The Infinite Cat Project

Web 2.0 Conference 2005

At last year’s Web 2.0 Conference, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we’re taking Web 2.0 further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year. We’re assembling a select group of thought… Continue reading Web 2.0 Conference 2005

MIT Media Lab initiative: the $100 Laptop

The MIT Media Lab is launching a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. The idea was announced by Nicholas Negroponte, Lab chairman and co-founder, at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. (…) The $100 Laptop will be a Linux-based,… Continue reading MIT Media Lab initiative: the $100 Laptop

Michel Dumais revient sur Branchez-Vous

Michel est de retour. Suite à son départ du journal Le Devoir il a rejoint l’équipe de Branchez-Vous et y signera 3 articles par semaine sur l’utilisation professionnelle d’internet et des technologies. En lire plus : Michel Dumais revient sur BRANCHEZ-VOUS. Premier article signé, l’utilisation de Skype chez les professionnels. Moins bon : la tapisserie… Continue reading Michel Dumais revient sur Branchez-Vous

Google Print

Am i late on this or it is so fresh that no one knows? Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but much of that information isn’t yet online. Google Print aims to get it there by putting book content where you can find it most easily – right in your Google search results.… Continue reading Google Print

Statissetiques

– 32% des lecteurs de Vu d’ici son des utilisateurs de mac; – bon, vous êtes encore en majorité des utilisateurs de Explorer; – 29% des visiteurs ont comme fournisseur videotron (ixmedia gagnent une place sur le palmarès des stats avec un bô 1% – ils font quoi tes employés mon cfd?); – pis ben,… Continue reading Statissetiques

Backpack

The latest from 37 signals – Backpack, personal information management, to do lists, organizer.

Xtreme Googling

Les recherches sur Google de votre nom ainsi que la lecture de vos contributions à des listes de discussions et/ou blogues font partie intégrante de notre processus de recrutement. Via A Frog in the Valley. Vos employeurs vous googlent. Les employés googlent leurs futures employeurs. Je google de nouvelles connaissances, qui sont ils, que disent… Continue reading Xtreme Googling

E-paper Watch

Do you by any chance know what time is it? A 3 x 9 cm electronic paper is curved and embedded along the watch’s bracelet-shaped surface. The e-paper displays a constantly-altering mosaic pattern, in addition to the conventional time display.

#DJ

Dans ma boite aux lettres cette semaine, une pub fido sur leur service #DJ qui permet pour 1$ de laisser votre cell identifier une pièce musicale. J’ai testé (les 2 premiers essais sont gratuits) et ben ca marche. ‘Vous venez d’entendre Daft Punk are playing at my house, interprête LCD Soundsystem’ Mais attention, c’est pas… Continue reading #DJ

Siemens first 3G cellphone

2.2-inch, 240×320 pixel, 262,000 color LCD screen, integrated GPS, a 2 megapixel digital camera for taking still pics, a 2nd camera on front for video calls, a built-in FM tuner, and MP3 player software (itune?) Menoum. (by the way, 3G stands for third generation phones. 3G technology lets people take, watch and send video clips… Continue reading Siemens first 3G cellphone

Mom! there’s a TV in my phone!

Mobile videophone After having picture show playing on your ipod, you’ll now get a tv in your cellphone – and will be watching ‘Mobisodes’: Operators worldwide are already selling short video clips. Two of the biggest phone companies — Verizon and Vodafone — are partnering with Twentieth Century Fox Television to create specially made-for-mobile dramas,… Continue reading Mom! there’s a TV in my phone!

Mobile geographical post-it – whew!

Researchers at Siemens are calling new technology “digital graffiti,” though it’s not really graffiti. (…) The application allows mobile phone owners to send a message, similar to an SMS (Short Message Service), to a geographical point where it appears on the screens of other users passing through the defined location. Unlike an SMS, the message… Continue reading Mobile geographical post-it – whew!

Panic goods

Online shopping made easy – as 123. Drag and drop made out of layers, no flash as far as i know.

My first use of Skype

‘Dude, what the f***?? – 5 posts in less than 3 hours, i don’t even post once a week! f*** slow down!’ Hey sorry, i am so happy about not feeling sick anymore and being able to do something else than sleeping and coughing… I have been geeking around and skyping with my brother tonite… Continue reading My first use of Skype

Geek ou pas

mel 01.mp3 Voici le liens à l’émission Macadam Tribus dont mel parle sur son message. Les geeks ont une relation très fusionnelle avec leur machine dont il ne peuvent absolument pas se séparer, au point où certains confient qu’ils feraient une dépression si on leur enlevait leurs ordinateurs. Oh dear.