Category: Misc

Cisco invests in SoonR

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 network and now with SoonR, your desktop becomes a server…
Read also: MobileCrunch, NY Times

On a side note I looked for a RSS feed on SoonR website without much success. I can not believe that in 2008  the PR of a tech startup has not set up one. -1.

Testing Seesmic

Thanks to Stephanie (aka. Stephtara) I could give a try to Seesmic this morning… It is supposed to be addictive so let’s see but I am having a really hard time to use the video… you know it is hard to get over the “watching and hearing yourself” thingy. First good point, they did not make the dailymotion mistake and the code for the embeded player can be generated from the video permalink, I updated my Videos plugin for my WordPress blogs.

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DigitURL

DigitURL is a new service to help to access the mobile internet. We all know how painful it can be to enter an URL on our small handsets and DigitURL makes this easiest by accessing website through a numeric address instead of a long URL. This is a bit of what I have been intending to implement for some time (ages maybe) with scurl.ch (where “scurl” stands for “short code URL”)… Continue reading

Dorian Gray cet insupportable et spammeur!

Il m’avait déjà énervé en live sur Couleur Terre, hier, il m’a énervé encore une fois ce matin en recevant son quinzième spam de la semaine (et de sa maison de production).

Interview C3

Il peut bien se vanter de passer “16 heures d’internet par jour pour faire mon auto-promotion” si il pouvait éviter de spammer ce serait pas mal! “La musique m’a sauvé dans ma vie”, “j’espère que ma musique va sauver d’autres vies”, putain mais quel looser, il a tout fait, tout vécu… mais quel sang-froid d’Emilie!

How Google builds up databases

You probably havn’t missed that Google is developing together, with technology partners, Android: the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.

A bit after this announcement, they launched a new version of their Google Maps software on phones that includes a “My Location” feature. This feature basically lets anyone with Google Maps on his cell phone find out its location even if the phone does not have a GPS (which until now was sort of a requirement to get some sort of localisation).

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