Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Is this really news worthy? I'm not sure. But here it is, google has updated its favicon to leave the upper case G behind while replacing it with a smoother lowercased "g". Closer to the vertical infinity symbol ∞. And for the sake of day dreaming, could this announce a ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Today I was trying to send a few connection requests to contacts made during Web 2.0 last month when I realized that LinkedIn changed its process for importing contacts.
Before I was able to view exclusively contacts from my address book that were on LinkedIn but to which I had not ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Not much time in the last two weeks. The good news is that Silentale will be moving in a new office next week!
In the mean time, here is what seemed interesting around the web since my last post.
Google launches Google Health - Disclaimer: Your privacy is only an ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
The Wall Street Journal says that T-mobile USA may be preparing a bid on Sprint Nextel to move from 3rd to 1st position in the US.
New $150m Fund for Blackberry applications developer called the BlackBerry Partners Fund.
The iPhone killer wannabe: a Blackberry. The Blackberry 9000.
Twitter is finaly trying to do ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Coming back from San Francisco where we had enough time to immerse completely in real life social networking, person-to-person discussions, I came back with a fun but weird aftertaste. The feeling that I've heard all those discussions, all those buzzwords, a couple of years prior. Maybe its me, but saas, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Today, Techcrunch announces that Xobni acquired failed Web 1.0 startup FireDrop which raised $90m in 2000. Yesterday, Mike Arrington started an interesting discussion on what to do with the failed startup's IP laying around. Even if most IP of failed startups is officially owned by bankers or in the best ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
We all know that the French are different from the rest of the world. We got to love France for all its exquisite food, its wine, its architecture and culture but who would have guessed that a simple energy drink such as Red Bull would have such a hard time. ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
It has been a busy last two weeks with the web 2.0 expo in San Francisco and a 7 day trip to Montreal. I was not able to keep up with my commitment to post regularly here during this time but I hope the next few post will make up ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
That's it, Microsoft announced that they have walked away from the negotiation table. Is it now a good time for Google to move in; will Microsoft ultimately try other ways to get Yahoo? There are still a lot of open questions and we should expect some of them to be ...
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Technology entrepreneur based in Paris, I moved from Montreal late last year and founded 