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 at work. I have not yet digged very deep but it seems to be really cool, close enough to the single version (which I use quite a lot on my various blogs) so that all themes and plugins can be reused while in the same time it offers additional features to maintain a multi-user blog plateform.  You can “easily” add social networking functionalities to WordPress MU and forums with BBPress, we get very close to a fully-state-of-the-art social networking tool. Pretty cool mmh? (and I am working on a plugin to add mobile – any devices including Wii, PSP, iPhone – support to WordPress MU)

Back to the blogroll issue,… this is not that easy to maintain… it is an ongoing and never finished process but I consider it as a mandatory element within a blog – at least on the main page. It does help to find out who the author is (sort of “what you read is what you are” thing I guess).

From a discussion with my cousin a few weeks ago (just after Google experienced a very rare breakdown)

What do you do when you want to test your internet connection ? Don’t you try www.google.com ? is not Google the first website you try to reach ? It is for me and if I get the screen above it can only mean one thing: “I am currently not connected”

Is not that a proof of Google reliability ? and also a somehow weird signal that Google and the internet itself is sort of “merging” ?

CarPostal (buses from the Post office in Switzerland – runs mainly in countryside) launch a test with Beetagg to get bus schedule on the mobile when scanning a 2d code. Nothing new or original here (once again), since similar experience is running in Paris.

What’s common for both examples is that proprietary 2d codes are used, my mobile can not read the code without installing first the proprietary reader. Basically when travelling you will have to install first the 2d code reader of that country first. That’s so much not user friendly, and has nothing to do with mobility… it sucks!
On a side note it seems that Beetagg is working closely with the Post in Switzerland and might get the market here. Sucks also (and once again seems that some top-people does not get it).

Via Mobile News and Infos

“Halt forbidden to nomad”. Nomadic people can not stop everywhere… but here they are more than welcome!

Special dedicate to a neo-nomad ;-)

Because I did not want to miss Björk and because their booking system on the web sucks I find myself with a few tickets for wednesday at Paleo.
Björk will be on stage, with Arcade Fire, Arno and many more…

Let me know if you are interested… (drop a comment or send me an email)

I have started to use Twitter again… I am currently testing Tw3t.com (also with my webcam).

My Tw3t.com

“Volé en 2005” i.e. “Stolen in 2005”, that’s the sentence written under an ashtray of one of the very famous hotel in France. Nice way to build a customer relationship.

I did not realize that together with the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival has been organized a symposium called “Imaging the futur” with some intersesting talks around virtual world (especially applied to the gaming industry). I should probably stop by…

Imaging the Futur Symposium / 2nd edition
3-4 July 2007
Théâtre du Passage, Neuchâtel, Google maps

WordCamp 2007
WordCamp is a 2-day conference for WordPress users and developers.
When? 7/21-7/22, 2007
Where? Swedish American Hall, San Francisco CA

Nice schedule. Luckily I will be around San Francisco (San Jose more precisely) mid-july I thought I could attend my very first WordCamp ;-) I have subscribed.

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Link to the video

• ~ 03’10: About the market: “It is super healthy… lot of young people who wanna build company… next generation of stuff”.
• ~ 06’10: “You are going to have rich local fonctionnality [working] together with the richness that elsewhere” from Bill and Steve follows by an explanation on how Google Maps on iPhone is much better that any Google Map client.
• ~ 07’00: “People are figuring out how to do more in a browser to get persistent state… it is happening fairely slowly and the hardware is progressing and you can run a rich client that can do pretty cool thing”
• ~ 08’24: “The marriage of some client apps with some really great clouds service is powerful and right now it can be way more powerful than just having a browser”
• ~ 11’00: “I don’t think you will have one device… ” and then it goes to the “Connected Life”…