Archive / Web2.0

Wake-Up Call

8 December 2007 / Comments

For about one and a half year, BigNumbr — one of my Web 2.0 experimental project — have been dormant, getting virtually no traffic. Having done no promotion, I’ve never quite expected anything about it.

A couple of weeks ago though, BigNumbr had a stroke coming from nowhere.

Unfortunately being hosted on a shared account, BigNumbr seems [...]

Do We Really Own Our Data?

5 October 2007 / Comments

We create stuff online everyday and everywhere — Google apps, Flickr, Zooomr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Backpack, Twitter, Pownce, Delicious, Second Life, you name it — but do we really own our data?

None of these services propose an easy way to backup your data on your computer; some of them provide an API but that’s not what [...]

Delivering Web Apps to the Enterprise

24 September 2007 / Comments

Webapps are mainly focused on the consumer. Accessibility, pricing, ease of use and remote updates are a natural fit for this market.

Few apps are actually focused on the entreprise market. I’m not talking about Enterprise 2.0 as some like to call it — a different approach of working and collaborating — but rather about using [...]

Twittercal Reviewed on Lifehacker

21 July 2007 / Comments

Today, Twittercal got a nice review on Lifehacker (thanks to Adam Pash) — it was also reviewed on Mashable by the way (thanks to Kristen Nicolle).

People really liked the idea and I’m very happy about that. Twittercal has already 300 subscribed users and has processed more than 500 messages so far.

Twittercal was categorized as another [...]

Introducing Twittercal: Send Events to your Google Calendar From Twitter

14 July 2007 / Comments

Twittercal is a free service that connects your Google Calendar to Twitter so you can add events in a snap right from your favorite client.

Setting up the service is quite easy, just go on twittercal.com and follow the 5 steps procedure.

I’ve been working on Twittercal on my spare time for the last couple of weeks. [...]

Jonathan Harris: The Web’s Secret Stories

12 July 2007 / Comments

I just finished watching the incredible talk by Jonathan Harris at the TED Conference. He had collected people feelings from millions of blogs. He’s been able to visualize world feelings through innovative living interfaces.

The two projects We Feel Fine and Universe are live. Looking at the web like this is a truly different experience. It [...]

6 Pownce Invitations to Give Away

5 July 2007 / Comments

I just got an invitation to the private beta of Pownce (thanks to Olivier).

Powce is a Twitter clone with additional sharing features for files, links and events. Pownce has generated a lot of buzz lately probably because it’s the new born baby of Kevin Rose (the founder of Digg).

Pownce received a lot of negative feedback [...]

Why No Internet Is Like No Electricity

22 May 2007 / Comments

During the last couple of month I’ve been experiencing pretty bad Internet conditions: frequent losses of connexion, ultimate slowness and huge pings. I’ve been moving to different places so I had to rely exclusively on open Wifi spots around; it was a definitely frustrating experience.

Everything I do is online: reading news, writing, coding, being organized, [...]