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 ...

Around the web this week

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 ...

Around the web this week

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Although it has been a long week, very few subjects were discussed intensely. As a result, you may have missed one of these interesting stories: New blackberry takes aim at the iPhone. I'm puzzled at what Research In Motion is trying to do. The new blackberry 9000 seems to be such ...

Around the web this week

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, ...

How twitter makes me look at emails differently

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

For short, twitter is addictive. It's like using SMS but having all your friends know what others are talking about. You can interject, complement, deny, speak, yell or simply listen. The messages are short, 140 character long. Typing a message involves so few steps that it's easy to say "@nicolas_ ...

Around the web this week

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Spending the last few days in Amsterdam for The Next Web was great. European entrepreneurs have embarked on the bandwagon and are far from trailing behind. Anyway, I'm still processing the massive amount of information gathered during the conference, all the startups seen, the talks and chats of the last ...

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 ...