Monthly Archives: August 2007

Google will index the Social Graph

2007/08/29 – 06:56

Good insight from Kevin Burton on the Social Graph meme (got so many things I would like to blog about that topic, but this will do for now):
Scoble started a thread (you can follow the discussion on Tailrank) about how Google is going to be crushed in four years by applications which index the social [...]

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call me a CLI nostalgic…

2007/08/26 – 05:16

But I think these all point to something happening right now. Not that I would have stated that before. Or why should I be so hyper reading Aaron? If you don't get this, let me SMS you the answer : “easy input + parsed + augmented is where it’s @”.
Let me restate that : the [...]

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Facebook Camp Montreal

2007/08/24 – 02:46

Ok, so somewhere near the end of september, as stated on barcamp.org and Facebook… This planning of this event is so serendipitous it’s scary… At Barraca right now waiting for others to organize the event.
[tags]facebook,barcamp,facebookcamp,montreal,event,serendipity,local,barraca,openspace[/tags]

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Kung Fu Mode!

2007/08/24 – 01:11

My next talk at barcamp (the canadian version eh!) is definitely going to be titled : From grasshopper to ninja stealth to kung fu mode. You can probably guess the topic (don't cheat by reading my tags and/or category)!
[tags]barcamp,canada,quebec,montreal,startup,grasshopper,stealth,kungfu[/tags]

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Praized office

2007/08/22 – 10:30

Just an excuse to test a new wordpress Google Map plugin…
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Firebug and CSS

2007/08/22 – 09:08

Believe me, you need this if you do any kind of web work…
Inspect the cascade :Firebug shows you the rules that cascade together to style each element. Rules are sorted in the order of precedence, and properties that have been overridden are stricken out. Each rule has a link back to the file where [...]

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Brilliant scraping to update your Facebook status from elsewhere

2007/08/22 – 12:02

After reading on Fred Wilson's blog about Moodblast I also stumbled upon applescript and php clever twists to update your Facebook status by going the screen scrape route with m.facebook.com… nice! I am also tepted to call this reverse-scraping as the result is not pulling data out but pushing some in. Well, it is the [...]

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Phantom vibration syndrome

2007/08/21 – 11:15

I have this (sometimes). And. I. Hate. It.
Some call it “phantom vibration syndrome.” Others prefer “vibranxiety” â?? the feeling when you answer your vibrating cellphone, only to find it never vibrated at all.
“It started happening about three years ago, when I first got a cellphone,” says Canadian Steven Garrity, 28, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. [...]

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Some thoughts on Mahalo (Skrentablog)

2007/08/20 – 09:27

Another article in the “can't ignore SEO” category (links are the fabric of the web). Great stuff. Read it and follow or perish (or another way to say it : those who live by pagerank shall perish by pagerank).
Via Some thoughts on Mahalo (Skrentablog)
[tags]seo,hyperlinks,mahalo,web2,about.com[/tags]

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gpicsync @ Google Code

2007/08/20 – 09:05

Automatically geocode pictures from your camera and a GPS track log - gpicsync - Google Code
[tags]geodata, opendata, opensource[/tags]

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