That’s a guess of The Apple Blog, the Apple Store will get rewritten using Ruby on Rails. If it’s true, that will be another big achievement for Rails and it’ll get even more serious attention. Apple has been using their WebObjects (based on J2EE) technology for some time. WebObjects has not been a success and [...]

Last month, I wrote a post about the frustration of working in the mobile business. Fabrice Grinda just wrote a fine analysis of this market and talks about difficulties of doing business. Being in the middle of the storm in my company and having experienced most of these difficulties, I can only share his opinions. [...]

Can boring utility apps be fun? Austin Sarner and Brian Ball bet and won! AppZapper is a software removal utility for MacOS X, nothing you can be passionate at. But the app is so useful, simple and fun that you can’t help “zapping” applications just to hear the lazer sound. They’re doing it again with [...]

I will attend to Paris on Rails, the first official Ruby on Rails conference in France. It will be held in Paris the 17th of November. I’m quite excited about it because that kind of high-tech conference in France is rare. I hope to meet some French Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and other interesting people. That [...]

Nobody could have missed the news. Google has just acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion. I read that Yahoo! was still negociating until the end. Congratulations you guys! That’s an impressive achivement for a company launched only one year ago! Just for information, the current traffic stats of YouTube: 100 million videos watched per days and [...]

WebWag — a young company proposing a personalized page service — will annonce a strategic partnership with Yahoo! (FR) today! Battle is definitely raging between WebWag, Netvibes and PageFlakes, the main competitors on this business. Even if their business model seems quite similar, WebWag is the first to partner with a big company whereas the [...]

I just tried SlideShare a new service recently introduced at TechCrunch to store and share your PowerPoint presentation online. Like YouTube, you can directly embed a Flash player into your blog posts to read presentation online. I’ve uploaded my Ruby on Rails presentation on SlideShare and updated my post as well to include the player.

A couple of days ago, Google released a revamped version of its Google Reader service. This version is a huge improvement compared to the previous one and start felling like a desktop application. But actually, I don’t think RSS feed readers — online or desktop — are a good way to read online material. The [...]