Archive for the ‘Around the web’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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