In my move to Google services (more generally going "all cloud"), I started to use Gmail (love it though there are rooms for improvement regarding the UI) but I also wanted to start using Google Calendar. Before: One agenda that contains both work and personnal information hosted in Outlook at wo...

It was quite a revolution when RSS became popular (created in 1999, it became wide used around 2005/2006) and integrated in almost all tools. To the point that some people were even challenging that it would use too much bandwidth... Why is that ? While RSS is a neat system to find out when somethin...

ReadWriteWeb: Google Apps Unseats Incumbent Microsoft Office in Washington, DC (via mfavez on twitter) [...] Vivek Kundra, Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, has decided to switch the District's 38,000 employees from the installed Microsoft Office suite to the Web-based Google...

Took some time this morning to give a shot to Insqribe, a webapp that allows you to manage your QR Code. ...

Automattic released a new theme called Prologue which transform a Wordpress blog into a Twitter-like tool. This is awesome! Will fit so well into an existing community or on an intranet! This is definitively underestimated! Might try to integrate that on an existing community to see how it goes. ...

Remember SoonR the start-up that lets you access over-the-air from your mobile the content of your desktop ? Well... Cisco Leads $9.5 Million Series B Round in Mobile Platform Innovator SoonR. Cool... With the Nokia Mobile Web Server (website) your mobile becomes an active device on the networ...

Gravatar has been acquired by Automattic. Here is what Om Malik thinks about this acquisition, as for myself I could see how to use it for tracking comments I put on weblogs (and comments are useful). Now that I have a Gravatar tied to my email address, checking and parsing Gravatar.com's webserv...

Tommi's blog: 2D barcodes pointing directly to application downloads Good idea, I had seen it somewhere I think but do not remember where (I thought it was on GetJar but apparently not and I could not find it). Here is a two inputs on my side. 1) Not sure that going directly to the download pr...

The Times in Johannesburg has launched the TimesCode which is basically slightly modified QR Code to include the label "TimeCodes". Basically a marketing thing since those code are readable by any QR Code reader. Via The Pondering Primate ...

I have updated my blogroll because I just found out that some blogs that I read on a regular basis have moved: Lift Lab is now hosting blogs from Nicolas, Fabien, Roberto,... all this good content in one place! awesome!! Those blogs are hosted on Wordpress MU which I have also installed on my server...