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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
The Setup
Let's first and foremost spend a few seconds explaining the setup. I'm not a blackberry server or exchange user but still consider myself a business-user with heavy use of both voice and emails, not so much a mobile Internet user yet. Therefore, the "Exchange for the rest of us" ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Aside from being very funny, here is one more proof that computer-based translation tools can have some real life collateral damages. This Paris bistro announces "we speak English" on its front door and proudly prints its menu in both French and English.
Looking quickly at the menu, I was amazed at ...
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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 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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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Why are web2.0 services still sending passwords by email?
I stay amazed day in and day out at the number of services that, just after signing up, will send me an email confirmation containing my password. As if you don’t remember what I just entered seconds before.
And as everyone knows, our ...
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Technology entrepreneur based in Paris, I moved from Montreal late last year and founded 