Archive for the 'web2.0' Category

Impressed by customer support of Soocial

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Soocial is an application to sync your contact à la Plaxo. They push the unified address book concept much further than Plaxo (while the latter is trying desesperatly to become LinkedIn).

Hoppe(r)?

I had an issue with their app… I posted a rant over Twitter and Soocial customer support contacted me to help me solve the issue. Now that is customer support IMHO.

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PHP distribué

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Tous les “grands” langages de scripts disposent d’un outil de distribution. Il permet à deux serveurs de communiquer de manière quasi-transparente en restant “dans le langage”. PHP malheureusement n’en avait pas. Cet oubli est maintenant réparé grâce à WsProxy.

WsProxy est un module Turbulences (le framework d’AF83) que je viens de réaliser pour le compte d’AF83. Il permet d’appeler des classes PHP distantes de manière transparentes (c’est à dire comme si rien n’était distribué).

Ghost of Huntsville

Par exemple le code PHP suivant peut être exécuté soit localement soit en mode distant en fonction de la configuration de Turbulences et de la classe.


$t = new Test();
echo $t->var;
$t->var = 2;
$t->loadImage()

Parmi les fonctionnalités importantes, on note:

  • Transparence une exception est rajoutée pour les erreurs typiquement réseau. C’est la seule différence.
  • Simplicité d’utilisation mis à part cette exception, le code local et distant sont les mêmes.
  • Souplesse d’emploi commutation du mode distant ou local via un paramètre de configuration.
  • Performance les instances sont déplacées sur le serveur appelant et y restent autant que possible.
  • Open source Comme Turbulences, WSP est open source. Son développement est ouvert et vous pouvez y participer.

WsProxy est encore en version alpha. Toutes les remarques sont bienvenues ainsi que votre aide. Rejoignez-nous sur http://turb.ulenc.es

Pour plus d’informations, voici le fichier readme et le SVN.

Diso

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

This blog is now Diso enabled

My diso profile

Bubble?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

(Via OnStartup)

MySpace Big Reset?

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

“You have not logged into MySpace since January 1, 2007. That makes us sad!

You’re also holding a very valuable piece of MySpace real estate, which is the username/URL you chose. That makes MySpace users sad! Why? Because you’ve got a URL someone may want, and you’re not really using it!

Since it doesn’t look like you’re an active user on this account, we will be resetting your username/URL so that someone else can use it.

To prevent this from happening, simply login to MySpace before Oct 31, 2007.

NOTE: We are only resetting the URLs of inactive accounts. We will *not* delete your account. We are simply trying to free up the username/URLs for people who actually want to use them. Thanks!”

How many of these emails did they send?

The Future of Computing?

Friday, October 19th, 2007

“We’re approaching a transition point in computing (…). It isn’t just the Internet or search or access to movies and music that matter, but all of those presented in a technological context that Just Plain Works. The importance of all our digital stuff along with our fear of losing it will shift us more and more toward central backup and storage. And once you have your life sitting on some company’s server, are you going to move it on a whim? No, and that means there will be a LOT of money to be made providing these services. Storage and automated backup and probably some form of netboot with a fresh OS image every time is the future of computing whether we’re talking about desktops or notebooks or mobile phones.”

archi

This is an informed opinion and I agree with him (and I am not the only one: Fred?).

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Web 2.0 Hotel

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

How does look like a “user generated” Web 2.0? For the answer, click on the link below.

This is simply a real, smart and cool idea.

Web 2.0 Hotel

I will try it and let you know.

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Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Client

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Is a Joost-like with embedded aggregation features (they “parse” YouTube).

Seas

I do not really know what to think about this it, but it looks real cool… Although I do not really understand the research nor the consumer value. I will give it a try and let you know. I do not think we would not hear about it if it was not from Harvard.

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Isuu

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Issuu is something I have not yet fully understood. As always in those case, it looks wonderfully new. It seems to be a kind of YouTube for print.

As you can see, they have YouTubed this document. Both are awesome: the content and the presentation.

Update Issuu reader is destroying my lay out, so click on the link to see it.
Update Thanks to the team support, it is now working. Awesome support!

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The Real Thing

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Real cool Twittering:

BEING SURE OF YOURSELF MEANS YOU’RE A FOOL 11:56 AM July 17, 2007

Link via BoingBoing (explanation also is there)