{"id":1253,"date":"2005-08-17T19:44:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/08\/17\/meidia-officially-launchinglancement-officiel-de-meidia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:58:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:58:22","slug":"meidia-officially-launchinglancement-officiel-de-meidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/meidia-officially-launchinglancement-officiel-de-meidia\/","title":{"rendered":"me\u00efdia officially launching!<br>Lancement officiel de me\u00efdia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hey m-c, wassup?<br \/>\nehr, eh, nothing new beside that i am officially launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meidia.ca\/?l=en\">me\u00efdia<\/a> &#8211; finally! I am oh-so-excited about this, please help spread the news!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>English press release (le fran\u00e7ais suit plus bas): <\/p>\n<p>The cat is out of the bag and here is the news!<\/p>\n<p><b>me\u00efdia is a creative studio specializing in new web technologies, such as blogs and social web applications<\/b><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got a lot in mind, but right now our main goal is to create original and user friendly products that will make new web technologies accessible to the average user and not just to a special elite of professionals and geeks as it is right now.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ok, sounds fun. But what are you guys doing at &#8216;me\u00efdia&#8217;?<\/b><br \/>\nWe create blogs &#8211; corporate and personnal ones &#8211; offer consulting and workshops about the blog phenomenon and web trends. Some stuff we did over the last months: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underelectriclight.com\/\">UEL site-blog<\/a>, me\u00efdia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.meidia.ca\">blog community<\/a>, me\u00efdia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meidia.ca\/blog\">collaborators blog<\/a>, and a project for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornmagazine.org\/projects\/lydia_sparrow\/\">Born Mag<\/a> involving the use of flickr API.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hm, but, what for??<\/b><br \/>\nWe are into this because we are like minded souls, or geeks, who strongly believe in the power of the internet as a medium for profound social changes. With these new tools, such as blogs and social sotware, it gets easier than ever for people to communicate and create &#8211; see, change and shake things up. Call us crazy, but working in the web industry since 98, we now feel the time as come for people like us to help building what will be the new web: our suits are on, ready, fire, go!<\/p>\n<p><b>And who&#8217;s who?<\/b><br \/>\nRight now me\u00efdia is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcturgeon.com\/blog\">myself<\/a> along with some <a href=\"http:\/\/antoinegirard.com\/\">collaborators<\/a> with surnatural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inoveryourhead.net\/\">powers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bacterie.org\/\">web Ninjas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/i.never.nu\/\">css Kung fu masters<\/a>, they know all the tricks. I want to keep the team small, but since all of this is about collaboration, drop us a line if you feel that working together would benefit both sides.<\/p>\n<p>About our workspace: i still haven&#8217;t got us a loft in the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=mile+end&#038;ll=45.520271,-73.600931&#038;spn=0.016282,0.028702&#038;near=montreal&#038;num=10&#038;start=0&#038;hl=fr\">MileEnd<\/a>, nor massive investments, but hey, if you ever feel like helping us out, <a href=\"mailto:m-c@meidia.ca\">head this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>You guys are nuts<\/b><br \/>\nCompletely. That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll join us for our 5@7 launch. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Communiqu\u00e9 de presse : Lancement officiel de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meidia.ca\">me\u00efdia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><b>me\u00efdia, un studio de cr\u00e9ation ax\u00e9 sur les nouvelles techno web tel les blogues et logiciels sociaux<\/b><br \/>\nUne entreprise dont le r\u00f4le sera de cr\u00e9er des produits originaux et facile d&#8217;utilisation, mais aussi de rendre les nouvelles technologies accessibles \u00e0 tous, et non seulement \u00e0 une \u00e9lite de professionnels ou de gens allum\u00e9s comme c&#8217;est le cas pr\u00e9sentement.<\/p>\n<p>me\u00efdia c&#8217;est le projet sur lequel je travaille depuis pr\u00e8s de 9 mois et auquel je r\u00eave depuis plus de 2 ans. me\u00efdia est une plateforme ou j&#8217;utiliserai mes talents et exploiterai mes id\u00e9es entour\u00e9e de collaborateurs g\u00e9niaux. Je vois grand, alors gardez vos yeux ouverts et suivez moi!<\/p>\n<p><b>Ouin, pis vous faites quoi chez &#8216;me\u00efdia&#8217;?<\/b><br \/>\nNous cr\u00e9ons entre autres des blogues, corporatifs et perso, offrons des services de formation et consultation sur le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne des blogues et les tendances techno. Quelques projets r\u00e9alis\u00e9s r\u00e9cemment : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underelectriclight.com\/\">UEL site-blog<\/a>, la <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.meidia.ca\">communaut\u00e9 des blogues me\u00efdia<\/a>, le blogue des <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meidia.ca\/blog\">collaborateurs de me\u00efdia<\/a> ainsi qu&#8217;un projet r\u00e9alis\u00e9 pour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bornmagazine.org\/projects\/lydia_sparrow\/\">Born Mag<\/a> exploitant l&#8217;API de flickr.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hein? mais pourquoi?<\/b><br \/>\nParce qu&#8217;on aime \u00e7a! Le web, on en bouffe depuis 98 et le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne des blogues et des logiciels sociaux nous allume, autant sur le plan technique que l&#8217;aspect social du ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne. Ca nous tiens \u00e9veill\u00e9 le soir, on en parle et on en mange. Tellement que l&#8217;on croit que la venue de ces nouveaux m\u00e9diums marque le d\u00e9but d&#8217;une nouvelle \u00e8re pour le web, et on veut y participer, b\u00e2tir le &#8216;nouveau web&#8217;. On y est presque, on est pr\u00eats.<\/p>\n<p><b>C&#8217;est qui \u00e7a &#8216;on&#8217;?<\/b><br \/>\nPour l&#8217;instant c&#8217;est <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcturgeon.com\/blog\">moi<\/a> et des <a href=\"http:\/\/antoinegirard.com\/\">collaborateurs<\/a> extra <a href=\"http:\/\/i.never.nu\/\">sp\u00e9ciaux<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bacterie.org\/\">passionn\u00e9s<\/a> et <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inoveryourhead.net\/\">allum\u00e9s<\/a> comme ca se peut pas. Je tiens \u00e0 garder une petite \u00e9quipe pour tout de suite mais la collaboration est \u00e0 la base de me\u00efdia alors si ca vous dit de travailler avec nous, laissez-moi savoir.<\/p>\n<p>Pour ce qui est des locaux, je n&#8217;ai pas encore lou\u00e9 de loft dans le <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=mile+end&#038;ll=45.520271,-73.600931&#038;spn=0.016282,0.028702&#038;near=montreal&#038;num=10&#038;start=0&#038;hl=fr\">Mile End<\/a> et n&#8217;ai pas eu d&#8217;investissements massif mais bon, si vous avez un loft \u00e0 nous refiler ou de l&#8217;argent \u00e0 investir, <a href=\"mailto:m-c@meidia.ca\">c&#8217;est par ici<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Vous \u00eates crinqu\u00e9s!<\/b><br \/>\nOui! Compl\u00e8tement! Venez nous voir au 5@7 de lancement, date \u00e0 venir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hey m-c, wassup? ehr, eh, nothing new beside that i am officially launching me\u00efdia &#8211; finally! I am oh-so-excited about this, please help spread the news! * * * English press release (le fran\u00e7ais suit plus bas): The cat is out of the bag and here is the news! me\u00efdia is a creative studio specializing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/17\/meidia-officially-launchinglancement-officiel-de-meidia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">me\u00efdia officially launching!<br \/>Lancement officiel de me\u00efdia!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}