This is the last blue screen I’ll tolerated from Windows Vista, if you didn’t make your migration yet, don’t! I’ve been very ‘polite’ with him, I even re-installed being careful of not installing unstable software on it. Just a look on Google, 1 650 000 link to “Vista Blue Screen”, whereas “XP Blue Screen” will… Read More »
Not sure everybody knows about it (???), sure enough I’ll be heading there! Having successfully held events in Toronto, Chicago, Winnipeg, and Hollywood, FITC makes its Europe debut in Amsterdam. Explore the creation of NEW ideas and concepts, where the limits of technology in design and art can be experimented with, explored, broken and reinvented.… Read More »
A bit off topic for this blog but this news from Wired is still interesting IMHO. A Geo-Information technologist, has been using satellite photography to help NGOs document atrocities in isolated crisis zones like Darfur, Zimbabwe and now in the Union of Myanmar. […]To catch human rights abusers in the act, Bromley will need a… Read More »
Read/WriteWeb has published a list of the Top 10 marketable web development skills. I’m happy to see that Flash and ActionScript are part of the list! Even if I don’t fully agree with this list I do think that it is interesting to make such a list, so here the list of skills I found… Read More »
On 28th November Adobe and Yahoo! announced their partnership to display ads in generated pdfs. […]an opt-in service that enables online commercial publishers to drive new revenue by including timely, contextual ads next to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)-based content[…] […]Ads can only be displayed within Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, in a panel adjacent… Read More »
Very interesting article from Dale Dougherty at O’Reilly Radar. After displaying a (quite boring but illustrative) video, the author look at the changing world of advertisement with the Web 2.0. […]The concept behind this video is that advertisers think they know consumers and know what they want but they really don’t[…] […]Will my online profiles… Read More »
Very basically we have created a technology which can represent the world’s knowledge in a form that is clear and accessible to humans, as well as being comprehensible to computers. This is different from the knowledge stored in websites and books, which is written in natural language that is good for humans, but incomprehensible to… Read More »
I’ve just come across a very interesting article from the Times Online about the next 20 years of the Internet, they seem to do a little confusion of the WEB and the Internet but still it is interesting: […]the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives – be it a… Read More »
Aral Balkan has published a video, taken during the keynote at MAX Chicago 2007, about the preview of Flash Player 10 (codename: ASTRO). […]Adobe showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.[…] I’m not so much impressed about the Text feature, as the… Read More »
At the beginning of this week, I’ve received my first check from Google for using Adsense. Since the start of this year I’ve been using it, to see if it could pay my hosting. I nearly have my hosting completly paid by Adsense, what surprised me is the difference between Adsense and Adwords (that I… Read More »
I was reading the post from Google Webmaster Central (link via FlashEnabled), about the best uses of Flash. Someone (Jason) commented that the was to use JavaScript (SWFObject) to make the Div replacement, another one warned him about the danger as being considered as cloaking by the Google Bot. Personally I used this technique in… Read More »
Since the first time I’ve heard about Papervision I’ve always been stunned by the demo provided. Today is a great day as they are going live for their Public Beta. Papervision3D moves from private testing to a full public beta. Everybody is welcome to download and start playing with it. We believe you will find… Read More »
[Via: le monde]¨ Just a quick link to an interesting study from danah boyd about class divisions through Facebook and MySpace. MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” “art fags,” punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These… Read More »
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Very interesting article published inTechnolgy Review, written by David Gelernter (professor of computer science at Yale University) about the understanding of AI and it’s future. Credit: Eric Joyner Introduction: Artificial intelligence has been obsessed with several questions from the start: Can we build a mind out of software? If not, why not? If so, what… Read More »