About Microblogging
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.
Chris Borgan: Prologue is More Than We Are Considering, “Install WordPress on a web server inside the firewall and you’ve solved the “private implementation” of Twitter”, yeap!
On a sidenote, I need to change the layout of this blog to make it more micro-blogging friendly… I want to be able to write 160 chars post without title and stop posting on Twitter.
Playing with URLs on YouTube Mobile
(part 1) Wouah. YouTube Mobile is now available for every video, while until now it was only for selected videos. Because they are smart and because every video has a single id you can deduce the URL of the mobile version of a video from the web version. I need now to update my “killing” video plugin for WordPress :-)
Quite easy to translate this link (a video from the Kruger National Park):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cYZSanXWSE
to this (same video on the mobile version):
http://m.youtube.com/details?v=_cYZSanXWSE&warned=1
L’univers de la RSR
Je connaissais les univers de Netvibes,… je viens de découvrir celui de la Radio Suisse Romande… Plutôt sympa!
Parc Kruger: The big five
The big five, the most difficult animals to hunt on foot (they say :-)… all seen from the rangers jeep!
Back
Back from my vacation in Kruger Park and Bazaruto Island. More on that trip later on (maybe even some pictures :-) but right now I am going through my emails and my RSS reader…
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.
Des plaques aux enchères…
Y’a pas de petit profit… Le Service cantonal des automobiles et de la navigation (SCAN) propose d’acquérir sur internet les numéros de plaques automobiles particuliers (ie. les petits numéros et les numéros faciles à retenir) aux enchères: www.encheres-ne.ch
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.
Here is the result of my first post/video (in french): Continue reading
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