Category: Misc

About videos in posts and comments

Publishing video on your blog is not as easy as a copy-paste of the code propose by the website. I often run into problems mainly because of the editor used by my blog platform. I found it painful enough to think that putting something together for the bloggers on “Parlons” might be a good idea… Done. All they need to do now when publishing a video is to put the video link between bracket [ ].
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iFeedYou is dead

ifeedyou_on_nokia6630.jpgI have been quite busy lately and I forgot to announce that one… iFeedYou is dead! It was a difficult move but a realistic one… I can not spend hours on that project anymore and it has become too difficult and too expensive to maintain the service up. I feel bad for the very few people that were still using it but they can if they want contact me offline and I will set up for them an alternative online aggregator (while Google Reader or Bloglines might actually do the job :-).
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Location-Awareness and Social Computing

15112007055.jpgWe had yesterday Nicolas Nova visiting us @Cisco (Thanks Nicolas) and giving us a presentation of his work/interests… great talk, very pleasant moment with interesting exchanges.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in giving talk @Cisco…

Nicolas feedback on his visit (with a nice picture of Cisco building here in Rolle)

Gravatar enabled

GravatarGravatar 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 webserver logs could tell where I leave comments (assuming the blog has gravatar switched on).

Here is the very few lines of code to make your WordPress blog also Gravatar-enabled.