Deviant Abstraction

Is this good? Bad?

Found through a mobile marketing blog.

You Are 52% Evil

You are evil, but you haven’t yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.

A guy has hacked some US top secret computers for two years. Here is his story.

Whether true or not, it shows how easy it is to break in. I hope nuclear launch code are better protected.
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Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex CEO of Yahoo Europe asks why there are just a few of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs in France?

I don’t know whether or not France is bad for entrepreneurship.

(source SW4 from FlickR)

However one of the founder of Flickr said recently in a post called It’s a bad time to start a company: “Everybody else is starting a company. This is crazy”.

I cannot agree more with the title of the post and this quote. Maybe not in France, maybe not in the UK, but globally everybody is starting a web 2.0 company. The competition is globalized. When you are entering this market, you need to think globally even with a two person teams. as DMY puts it: “this time the me-too will not work”. For instance a lot of French are already on MySpace and YouTube. Those services have not even been localized to French! This means you need to create something. Internet disintermediates everything. To create a long standing business, you need to build something: whether software, great customer relations, a script; you need this to succeed and it is hard.

Those facts do not discourage US entrepreneurs to create their company instead of thinking about the next wave of innovations. Why?

See through David Byrne’s blog, a metal band dressed up more than Kiss will run for Eurovision representing Finland.

Quite cool isn’t it?

Since it is Eurovision, the music will not be worse than usual (actually I like some metal bands).

This is a neat and useful application based on Google Maps.

Try it, be afraid and start investing in safe zone.

Found through Bruce Sterling’s blog.

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This blog is really fun reading for us arrogant French… Seriously this must be a fake. This is a collection of US clichés mixed with false informations.

A must read.

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This link is for people obsessed with their self-importance. For instance me. It will show you how important you are on Internet. Of course, it depends what you mean by how important. Anyway this is quite fun.

As you can see, this blog is yet very underground. Nothing suprising for a blog launched only a few weeks ago. Faithful readers, remember you are part of an elite (ok just kidding…).

I remember Jon Uddell doing something like this a few years ago and showing the working bias of Internet: he was more important than his senator.

Found via Henry and Pierre Chappaz’s blog.

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You can do it now and easily. Tell your story to Scott Adams and he will put it into a Dilbert strip. Now you can get revenge too.

Muahahhahahahah (evil laugh with evil grin)

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A supertechno wall of brix.

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This is something you need if you use Google.

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