Archive for the ‘Around the web’ Category

The European startup scene is building stronger bonds

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Andy McLoughlin & Alastair Mitchell, HuddleSo the TechCrunch Europa Awards are a wrap and I'm reliving the rush from all the excitement at yesterday's event. Although a big proportion of the crowd was from the UK and more specifically from London, Mike Butcher's effort to create deep, lasting connections all ...

Your Facebook domain name

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

When Facebook recently announced that all of their 200 million registered users would be able to choose their own username on June 13th, most of us took it at face value. Great, I can now send a direct link to my profile with a simple URL! Although this is already ...

Around The Web no more

Monday, September 29th, 2008

As some of you may already know, the last few weeks have been crazy to the point where I was not able to publish anything on this blog. I'm sorry. Even if there is now two dozen topics I want to cover, I will not be writing an avalanche of ...

I’m Nowhere near OK, USA

Friday, August 15th, 2008

A few weeks ago I decided to go somewhere. While I'm usually quite open (read "public") to where I'm traveling, this time I wanted to keep it discreet. Unfortunately, I came to rely on Dopplr to tell people where I'm going and more importantly, friends, family and colleagues have ...

Around the web last week (and the two previous)

Monday, July 14th, 2008

It has been a crazy few weeks. During that time I failed to read the mountain of posts in my reader and declared RSS bankruptcy. Even so, I've tried to summarize here what I was able to glimpse from the threads, the tweets and the few email newsletters I still ...

Around the web this week

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Another week passed, and its now officially the summer. With it comes Firefox 3 and a few stories: Firefox was launched and has set a world record with over 8 million downloads in a 24hour span. Download it here. But be carefull not all FF2 extensions work with this new release, ...

Around the web this week

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

This week as led by to major news. The release of the iPhone 3G second generation. People (including me) have been waiting for it, predicting its arrival day, its features and the ones lacking. Most were right on it. The new iPhone was announced monday, will be released in 22 countries ...

Around the web this week

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Back from an exciting week at La Baule for the World Investiment Conference & CaliforniaTechShowcase, I had to play catchup with the news this weekend. Here is what happened during the week: [OUTAGE] Amazon.com (not the Web services) was down for nearly two ours on Friday. They should learn from Twitter ...

Around the web this week

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

I'm having a hard time getting through all the news every week now. I really hope aideRSS will soon work under FF3 to help prioritize. Anyhow, Android has been the big item this week at Google I/O. Everyone likes it, but where is the slick phone to go with it? read ...

Google changes favicon, Netscape’s old spotted

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 ...