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 ...

Online translation engine doesn’t digest french food

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 ...

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 ...

Around the web this week

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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Monday, April 14th, 2008

The past week has been intense. Quite a few subjects kept being discussed all week long. So, again, in no particular order... After Amazon EC2 outage last monday (aws forum, explaination from amazon, techcrunch), Facebook was plagued by an API bug that broke some of the 3rd party applications (bug report, ...

April Fool’s wrap-up

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Ok, so you were disconnected from the *real* world yesterday and you have not seen the hundreds of April fools' jokes around the internet. Here is a wrap-up, no particular order, just a fun list if you missed any.

Around the web this week

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Reading hundreds of post everyday, following twitter, going to OpenCoffee Club meet-up, traveling for events, talking to friends and teams makes us see a lot of cool (and not so cool) things every week. I'm trying to summarize the highlights of the week. Are we all Screensumers? We do spend 10-15hours ...