Monthly Archives: November 2007

Going to California

I will be in San Francisco next week for business meetings, if you are based in SF and would like to exchange ideas over a beer or a coffee, or know anyone there you think I should meet, drop me a note either in the comment or by other known ways of contacting me.

Open Sesa:me

Blogger in Draft: New feature: OpenID commenting:
Blogger in Draft now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting, in your blogs’ Settings | Comments tab (…) This means that users of OpenID-enabled services â?? such as LiveJournal and WordPress â?? can comment on your blog using their accounts from those sites, rather than with Blogger/Google accounts:
Gee. Lots of [...]

Montreal Founders & Funders Dinner

I am going to the first edition tonight, I saw the guest list yesterday, I will be in good company for sure. I will try to find some time tomorrow to give you a bit of feedback on the event… The guest list was “hand picked” and I think it’s a good idea, scarcity is [...]

Where am I?

Martin Dufort has an interesting perspective on the Google MyLocation feature on his blog - The Mobile Location-Based Informant :
However I latched onto something very interesting while listening to the demonstration video : “the service gets better the more you use it” @ 1:51.
Why is this of importance ? Why would it get better ? [...]

Google and OAuth

Twitter / Mr Messina :
Meanwhile, Google just signed the “OAuth Non-Assertion Covenant and Author’s Contribution License”. Sweeeeet!!
Nice, indeed. OAuth is the new black!

I am still falling away, away, away…

Twitter / Tim Bray :
So, the geeks are starting to fall away from Facebook. Are we a leading indicator, or just misanthropic elitists?
Yeah. Told you so! Good question, par contre.

Dare to REST

A good trio of post from Dare Obasanjo on REST and modern web development :

OpenID + OAuth is the Final Nail in the Coffin of the WS-* vs. REST Discussion
WS-* is to REST as Theory is to Practice
Guidelines for Building RESTful Web Services

The only thing I can add is in franco-québécois, for those who can [...]

“Pretty Good” not the same as Open for platforms

Unqualified Reservations: Five problems with Google Android :
As Google puts it, “all applications are equal.” However, some applications are more equal than others. Because all applications depend on native libraries that are not written in Java. And no application - and no end user - has any way to add any native library.
In the Android [...]

Never forget, what’s the effect?

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics :
As more of our lives are recorded, stored, shared and banked in the perfect history of the One Machine, the inescapable memory will trigger powerful, and yet unappreciated forces on our souls.
Sunday morning thinking at the office…

Spambook vs Del.ight.ful

Wondering… why is it that “friend’s posted items” to Facebook are *way* less interesting than stuff found in del.icio.us streams? I mean, order of magnitudes less interesting, from “why would I want to click that” in facebook to “wow this is a great nugget” in del.icio.us? Maybe just pushing stuff to facebook should be used [...]