Monthly Archives: April 2007

What I learned in San Franciso (in 2000 and 2007)

Here’s my Montreal Barcamp presentation : What I learned in San Francisco
Its an overview of what I learned in my last 10 years in this “internet industry” and what it is to be “A Frog in the Valley”.
PS. oh yeah, most of the startups I presented are hiring, great developpers, awesome designers and amazing bloggers… [...]

SMS is the new MP3. Less is more. ASCII wins again. Etc.

After the success of Twitter (twitter is the new flickr) and the instant realisation to several thousands of alpha-geeks and creative webheads at SXSW that SMS could be micro-blogging as well as a social command line (and I hereby claim this meme). SMS did not need twitter to catch the heart of the geekerati, but [...]

Great NAB 2007 report and key trends

Good write-up at IPTV evanglist, some juicy bits :
HD solutions for post production have really improved (up scaling of lower-res clips, resolution and bitstream independent)
There was a buzz on the show floor over the new Flash Media Player and VP6
P6 has been the conduit to mass adoption of media from a codec perspective and everybody [...]

Widgets on the S60 platform

I asked a question this morning on Nial’s Kennedy blog about widgets on cell phone and I really like the answer I got. I can tell you some mobile widgets are going to come your way in the next few months and I will be to blame!
PS. his syndication session at web2expo was really good [...]

Quote of the (social web) day

“MySpace: Friending Is the New Ad” (via gigaom)

A LoCo in the Valley with a Moco Frog…

Harry is throwing a blogger’s meetup thursday @ Vessel for MocoLoco friends. I decided to tack a Frog in the Valley meetup on top of it (or on the side, depends how you look at it).
So if you want to come by and say hi, please do! Many others bloggers will be there, lots of [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - Monday Keynote

By Tim O’Reilly. Notes and snippets, my comments in italics.

Tim starts by asking if this is a bubble? Crowd not sure… He compares where we are at “about visicalc” when compared with the PC era.
Always connected, persistent computing. It’s not over. It’s just starting. Inventing the future is what people here are doing. The future [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - Scaling Web Apps

Cal Henderson (whose book I was reading on the plane) is doing a great session on scaling web apps.
The place is so packed, people are sitting on the floor. This is fairly technical but it’s so much great information, it’s right up my alley…

The key to HA is to avoid SPOFS…
Share nothing, complete sessions [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - Building Social Applications

My impressionistic notes on Stowe Boyd’s workshop at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Italics are my idea/comments in the flow of the presentation.
Is this worth building? That’s a good first question to ask.. He asks for questions from the audience. Many great questions…
There is no wifi in here I am getting crazy, my [...]

Google Developer Day

Interesting… But nothing on the east coast? Please! I mean, Mountain View is nice, Sao Paulo too, but it’s a bit far!

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