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Why Facebook will eventually fail
2008-01-21 01:34:00 I’ve only got a few minutes to write this post, so pardon me if I’m sketchy on the details. A blogpost at GigaOm covers some of the iterations that social networks on the internet went through over the years. Pretty interesting, though incomplete. The author also warns that it is dangerous to predict the next wave, ... More About: Globalization , Internet , Technology , Friends , Networks
Sun-MySQL / Oracle-BEA: scramble in low layer software
2008-01-20 15:34:00 Last week, the unsexy world of lower software layers witnessed some significant consolidation moves: Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB, and Oracle Corporation acquired BEA Systems. I know you guys browsing the blogosphere want to hear about Paris Hilton (this one keyword to boost visits from search engines), and most of all Twitter, Google, Apple, MS-bashing (which I won’t ... More About: Software , Economics , Technology , Microsoft , Finance
Twitter revisited
2008-01-19 14:00:00 Those of you who know me, also know that I am not a friend of Twitter . Not yet! But this medium for micro-publishing seems to grow and grow. Swiss blogger Nico Luchsinger has counted some 800.000 users. So there is quite a good track record and the only thing missing is the business model. But a ... More About: Networks , Business strategy
The coolest place to work, ever?
2008-01-18 02:01:00 My new office. The picture was taken a few days ago when I first visited the place (a former women garment warehouse), and since then, we moved in. Btw, any design or furnishing tip? Budget = roughly zero. I seriously want to make of it the coolest place for software developers & beautiful minds ... More About: Software , Europe , Entertainment , Architecture , Work
Does Time Capsule hint about AirPort?s future?
2008-01-16 15:48:00 In last night?s (in European time) Keynote, Steve Jobs unveiled a batch of new products, though the rumored MacBook Air was the only that was truly interesting. What really surprised me, though, was Time Capsule. But not in any positive way. As a Mac OS X Leopard, laptop and external hard drive owner, I was hopeful ... More About: Apple , Airport , Future , Consumer Electronics
I Love how Apple?s logistics work
2008-01-16 13:33:00 Macbook Air components: 13 inch screen - same size as Macbooks Harddrives - compatible with either iPods or iPhones/Touches (SSD) Intel-CPU - possibly compatible with future portable devices There’s a lot of overlap here with other devices that Apple is selling. And probably under the hood too. Even if demand for the MBA is low, which I expect (certainly ... More About: Economics , Love , Work , Consumer Electronics
Is Software High Tech? If not is it a Commodity?
2008-01-15 17:31:00 Great posts by Vincent in December of last year investigating the ?High Tech? nature of Software . Click here and here to read those posts. It got me thinking and I decided to post my thoughts. Before we can answer the question - Is Software High Tech, we need to ask a ... More About: Economics , Technology , Apple , Microsoft
5 free pieces of advice to Amazon, from a very unhappy customer
2008-01-14 19:15:00 I consider myself a “power buyer” on Amazon - having ordered and read for the last decade or so between 20 and 30 books every year, for sums of money far from negligible, at least to me. This being said, I’ve never been more unhappy about my experience as a customer. Here are 5 free pieces ... More About: Internet , Entertainment , Advice , Books
Empty promise of privacy in Facebook
2008-01-12 02:54:00 The more and more I?ve started to think about it, Facebook ?s applications are an exercise in personal information anarchy. One evening at a bar, we were joking with my friends that it would be quite trivial to make an application to Facebook called ?How sexy is your social security number??, which would compare your SSN, bank ... More About: Europe , Privacy , Promise , Empty
Cheap and simple VR - in your living room
2008-01-09 11:31:00 Just a quick find that I found fun, and genuinely interesting, as it is not yet another try at bulky and/or expensive VR systems (remember those huge helmets and gloves that made you dizzy after 30 seconds?). It is still in the early stages of development - and is not even an official/business-oriented development, but hey: ... More About: Software , Living , Entertainment , Living Room , Simple
2007: Tops and Flops
2008-01-06 15:11:00 For our first post in 2008, what about looking back at 2007 ? Any decent tech-related blog should go through the ritual overview of last year’s tech headlines. However, feeling quite lazy today, I finally chose to come up with a (personal) list of the big winners and losers of the year elapsed, which ... More About: Economics , Internet , Technology , Entertainment , Apple
Is 2008 the year of instant communication nirvana?
2007-12-28 13:23:00 On the web, 2007 was the year of the social web. Things like Facebook and Twitter have accelerated the way people can interact socially even at a distance. It?s a bit obvious to say that our possibilities to communicate will only get better next year. Internet is a communication network beneath it all. Innovation isn?t about ... More About: Google , Technology , Apple , Microsoft
Happy Holidays Everyone!
2007-12-26 12:11:00 Dear readers of Tech IT Easy, I hope that those of you that celebrate Xmas all had great celebrations and are enjoying your holidays. We’ll see you all in the new year! Fidji, Steve, Kari, Jeremy, Vince, Alex, Manu, Leo, Lucien, Raj, Cecil, Raphael, and Remy More About: Holidays , Entertainment , Friends , Happy Holidays , Happy
Bloatware, the case of Flickr Uploadr 3
2007-12-20 10:13:00 Recently, Flickr released a new version of their own uploading-tool, Flickr Uploadr. The new version has some nice new features, like reordering the photos and working offline. Flickr Uploadr is surprisingly good tool, as it is dead easy to chain it with Adobe Lightroom?s Export actions. On Mac, you only need to make a shortcut of ... More About: Software , Internet , Case
Is software high-tech? Take II
2007-12-15 16:36:00 No it is not. And when you think about it’s kind of a good thing. Because it means that the path from technology to revenue is that much shorter. Of course, the other side of that coin is that there are many people competing for that same revenue. After writing my last post on this, ... More About: Software , Google , Internet , Apple , Microsoft
Is software high-tech?
2007-12-14 15:10:00 Jeremy wrote a comment on my last post, about which I’m still not sure whether he was kidding or not. Essentially, he disputed my view that software was not high-tech. It inspired me to write this post, where I argue for and against my initial stance. I encourage people to criticise what I say, because ... More About: Software , Economics , Internet , Finance , Outsourcing
Issues to consider when managing innovation: example of Intel?s lablets
2007-12-13 04:37:00 I am still a bit obsessed on how companies manage their innovation processes and how they make it fit with their culture. In this context, I recently read an HBS case about Intel research. The ?Intel lablets? particularly attracted my attention and raised general questions about the management of innovation. In 2004, Intel realized that faster ... More About: Globalization , Internet , Books , Finance , Project Management
Bubble or not bubble?
2007-12-12 03:19:00 That is the question… What do you guys think? via LittleGirl More About: Software , Google , Europe , Economics , Internet
Some thoughts on the investment-climate for innovative start-ups
2007-12-10 14:21:00 Hi, Last week, I’ve been busy writing about the investment-climate for technology-start-ups in the Netherlands for my thesis, and here’s a number of thoughts about it. Your own feedback on these is very welcome, if it is good, I’ll include them in my conclusions. The role of government in funding innovation It’s odd and goes against any capitalist ... More About: Europe , Economics , Technology , Finance , Investment
Graduate Seminar in System Analysis
2007-12-08 12:17:00 This week I took part in Helsinki University of Technology ?s graduate school seminar in system analysis, decision making and risk management. The two-day seminar was filled with presentations on various research subjects from Ph.D. students from various universities in both Finland and Russia. The seminar also included a visit to the IT University near Stockholm. I ... More About: Google , Economics , System , Graduate
A lot of fun @ Gymglish, a Paris-based startup
2007-12-07 02:07:00 Yeah, I’m late and haven’t blogged on TechEd in Barcelona & Study Trip To Silicon Valley - but I will. By the way, who said you can only have real fun working in a startup in Silicon Valley? About a year ago, I went to a lecture on entrepreneurship at Ecole Centrale Paris with, amongst others, the founder ... More About: Software , Europe , Internet , Entertainment , Podcast
Book Review - Project Team Rewards: Rewarding and Motivating your Project T
2007-12-05 05:03:00 “Project Team Rewards: Rewarding and Motivating your Project Team” by Joran Beel was originally his Master’s Thesis at Lancaster University Management School, UK. In this Joran tackles the issue: how to motivate project team. He points out that general project management literature usually ignores rewards and that is disappointing considering the fact that vast research ... More About: Project Management , Organization , Book Review , Review
Simple Flickr API methods in Ruby
2007-12-04 10:06:00 This post might get a bit technical, but I felt compelled to write a short post/tutorial about web services and Ruby . While working a on a little side project, I depended heavily on some now forgotten blog posts I found through Google. I went through pretty much all Flickr libraries available for Ruby, but couldn’t ... More About: Simple , Methods
Techiteasy RSS widget with Dashcode
2007-11-30 08:52:00 Couple of months after Vista was released, Jeremy showed how easy it was to make a wid? gadget. So, naturally now that Mac OS X Leopard has finally been released, it?s time to show how easy it is to develop a widget with Leopard. We?re going further than just displaying ?Hello world!?, oh yes, it?s ... More About: Internet , Apple , Widget
The magic of technology !
2007-11-29 11:01:00 Quiet week this week! Jeremy’s in the valley and I’m in the thesis. And god knows where the others are. But to remind you that tech is indistinguishable from magic (or something), and that we are still alive? Here’s? Daniel Chesterfield ! (via Laughing Squid - more of David’s amazing magic there) More About: Technology , Entertainment , Magic
In Silicon Valley, enjoying
2007-11-29 09:42:00 I’m exhausted and it’s only half of the study trip, but I enjoy SO MUCH going with a great bunch of cool guys to amazing companies like OQO, Netvibes, City Council of SF, l’Atelier US, eBay, Box.net, SRI, Stanford, Meetro and tomorrow Twitter, Neocase, Microsoft, Google , Plug & Play, the Churchill Club, XOBNI - & the day after ... More About: Video , Software , Economics , Globalization
Microsoft?s iPhone is upcoming?
2007-11-24 13:27:00 …or is it ? More About: Apple , Microsoft , Iphone , Consumer Electronics , Upcoming
A few cool web services you maybe never heard of
2007-11-23 09:43:00 The title of this post is pretty self-explanatory. No beating around the bush there, let’s go straight to the point. 1) Archive.org OK well you probably heard about this one actually. Archive.org, also known as The Internet Archive, has branded as “Wayback Machine” its Web-snapshot technology. Thanks to this technology you can browse ... More About: Technology , Entertainment , Services , Cool
Could the Internet just?crash?
2007-11-22 09:42:00 Interesting piece of information found on the BBC website (also quoted in Macworld and probably dozens of other sources): the current use of the Internet could overload the current capacity of the Internet and even result in …crashing the World Wide Web. To be more precise, let’s say that the explosion of the demand for ... More About: Economics , Consulting , Networks , Telecommunications
Samsung asked us to post this vid
More articles from this author:2007-11-21 10:10:00 Here you go, dancing people all over Europe . Oh, and why did I post this vid? It’s because it’s easy, short, stupid. And I’m tired of investing my time and energy into posts that get no comments. So expect more of this type of content from me. Now? where’s my paycheque Samsung ? Take care, Vincent More About: Post 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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