Île Sans Fil Growing
We were kind of stationary for a while there but with the release of Wifidog the guys have started “selling” and installing like crazy. Have a look at the list of hotspots, some very cool places there and more to come. Now if only the website people could start getting a move on… oh wait, that would include me.
Another Day Another Meme
I didn’t think much of it at first but it’s actually kind of fun and even makes you think. Here’s my 43 Things Twinkler list. Where’s your’s?
Je ping, tu ping pingnons donc
Sylvain fait des pings humain pour trouver plus de support à l’idée d’M-C, pas certain si j’ai bien des lecteurs qui ne les lises ni l’un ni l’autre mais j’ajoute quand même des pings; Boris, Daniel (faudrait ben que tu recommence à blogger!), Evan and Maj, Steph, Tobias et les autres.
Seb, un connecteur s’il en est un, a créé une page Wiki pour suivre l’idée.
(Just in case, english version: Sylvain is pinging connector people to help support M-C’s idea of moving Blogtalk to Montréal, if you’re listed here, consider yourself pinged.)
Anyone Else? Anyone? Bueller?
For the last few weeks I’ve been thinking that things were very slow on the Yulblog metablog, seeing only one or two posts… they’re not. There’s actually loads of pings every day but I wasn’t seeing them. When NetNewsWire 2.0 came out I installed it, then the trial period ended so I overwrote it with NNW Lite which is free. I think that’s when I stopped seeing all entries. Anyway, before I delete all files and cache and re-install, anyone else having this problem?
Wow
I was a believer in Firefox or, actually, in anything but IE, I thought things had to change and would but I thought it would take a long time. Well, we’re still a long way from there but this OneStat study shows a 5.3% rise over 6 months. That’s fantastic since it’s still the beginning, gaining momentum. A lot of the “switch to Firefox, it’s more secure” articles came out a way along those months and 1.0 came out only a couple of weeks ago. A Google branded version or a Dell or HP shipping their systems with it could make a huge difference.
I am sooooo impressed with the whole Firefox situation right now. It’s been proven for a while that things in various fields can take off virally and it’s been proven for a while that Open Source Software can be very strong technically but getting both on one product, and a good interface and a nice looking site and advertising and documentation and a cool logo and a well organized support and promotion structure well, that’s just incredible. Great job everyone.
You’ve Been Kicked In The Nuts
Too funny to leave in the linklog. You’ve been kicked in the nuts.
Sketch to Screen
The New York Times has a couple of interesting multimedia formats they use on their web site, one of them is a slideshow with voice over. Today they have Jean-Pierre Jeunet with sketches from Un long dimanche de fiançailles. I’m always impressed with storyboards and sketches, some of these guys have quite a bit of talent at drawing.
Peer2Peer Video Club
What an insane and fantastic idea! Peerflix is a video club where members swap DVDs, you earn points when you send one and use those points to get others in exchange. The ones you have you own, you keep them forever or ship them back out to the next person on the list. A peer to peer video club, whodathunkit? Gotta love the interweb.
[via Caterina]
