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  • An Ipad awaits

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter the 28th of May I will have an Ipad. I have decided to get an Ipad for a number of reasons. The first of these reasons is activity within the social part of the world wide web. I use it as a conversational and informational tool. I share my location when…

  • Glocals and twitter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesGlocals is a local website to find out what events are going on where for the international community in Geneva. It regroups events in a number of cities making easier to meet like minded people. The reason for which I mention this social network is the low input high yield results from…

  • Seesmic video and HTML 5

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRemember the video version of seesmic, the one that spawned.the francofous? Things changed for two reasons. Bandwidth issues and ressources. Flash would suck down the laptop battery within a few minutes. It meant that you could.only Seesmic from a fixed position. With html5 that problem will dissapear. What I look forward…

  • Losing interest.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are many Geo location websites in the web. They have something in common. Using them openly in front of others will not result in positive opinions. As a result of this you want them to work flawlessly. Spending three minutes logging in is too long. That’s why foursquare has been…

  • Over seventy thousand tweets and my opinions about twitter have not changed.

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesFor tree years I’ve been using twitter and for at least a year I believed that this was the great social connector, the website that would turn our passive, faceless web habit into something more personal. Of course I was wrong about this. Anonymity is still as great as ever but in…

  • The Nexus One

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I bought a Nexus One because the Android operating system appeared to be an interesting one. It is open source, intuitive to use and has some interesting features. It’s part of the Google cloud. Checking e-mails, using Gtalk and the calendar are all accessible through the phone. All content is…

  • I enjoy Google Buzz

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst everyone makes fun of Google Buzz and continues living their daily life between google buzz and facebook I have jumped into google buzz with a passion and found it to be nice. It’s a social aggregator of content from a number of google services where you can discuss the content…

  • Buzz buzz buzz

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteGoogle thinks it’s a bee. That’s why they have the new service google buzz. I spent some time looking at it and it makes me think of jaiku, friendfeed and other services all combined into one. It’s threaded conversations and status messages based on geo-tagged conversation triggers. It has a good…

  • MobileRSS for the Iphone

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you like to control the information that is available to you through feedreaders the one that I have found most useful is google reader. It allows you to navigate using keyboard shortcut keys rather than the mouse. As a result you are able to navigate more effectively through the sometimes hundreds…

  • Turn by turn navigation with the Nokia N97

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I recovered my N97 after lending it to a friend for a few days and he told me it was too complicated to use, which I do agree with, after seeing how easy the 3gs is, but that’s not the point of this post. Turn by turn navigation is. For…