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Monthly Archive for January, 2009
Every single day, friends asks me why Twitter is that great. As I’m quite a geeky person and I use complex vocabulary, they don’t (want to) understand. But today, I read an article in David Pogue’s column for the NYTimes. It’s really a great example of how useful Twitter can be. This is the link, and this is the content :
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about my bumpy initiation into the world of Twitter. It’s sort of a complicated cross between a chat room and private e-mail. And it’s both an interrupty time drain and an incredible source of real-time connection and information.
Some of you blasted me for impugning Twitter’s greatness. Some of you hailed me as a seer of its imminent demise. (A few of you thought my assessment was right on.)
Today, I thought I’d follow up by sharing the sweet, funny, interesting results of a Twitter experiment. It’s too entertaining for me to keep to myself.
Yesterday, I spoke at a conference in Las Vegas. The topic was Web 2.0, with all of its free-speech, global-collaboration ramifications. At one point, I figured that the best way to explain Twitter was to demonstrate it, live, on the big screen at the front of the ballroom.
So I flipped out of PowerPoint and typed this to my Twitter followers: “I need a cure for hiccups… RIGHT NOW! Help?”
I hit Enter. I told the audience that we would start getting replies in 15 seconds, but it didn’t even take that long. Here are some of the replies that began scrolling up the screen:
* florian: Put a cold spoon on your back – that’s what my grandfather would do for hiccups.
* megs_pvd: Put your head between your knees and swallow hard.
* bethbellor: Packets of sugar.
* jfraga: BOOOOOOOOOOO! (How many of those did you get?)
[Answer: about 20.]
Continue reading ‘How cool is Twitter ? It can “save” your life’
Look at this picture. Again. And again. Are you beginning to think of how cool this could be ? Cleaning the plates is the main problem. Electricity, water, not good marriage.
That’ll be nice because the last one was… ah… not that good.
Eurogamer, a website about video games, is thinking but mainly hoping that a new Zelda could be announced in March. Why ? The second-half of Wii’s release schedule is light and this period is near Games Developers Conference… This is not what Nintendo is used to do. As always, wait & see.
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Erica Sadun, a great writer, I remembered her name because she was one of the first developer to craft Apps for jailbreaked 1st-gen iPhones in Installer, found something really interesting. Lots of people are complaining about the fact that they can’t update their iPhone’s intelligent corrector. Erica found the solution. You must type words into the Google Search Field in Safari Mobile, then, your dictionary will be updated with your chosen words.
There is another question now… Why did Apple do that ? Why, please, tell me why.
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Yes, it looks fine, but it also looks like it will never be created — by Apple.
Recently, Apple said that they saw the netbook market as a useless market for them. Why ? Because netbooks are only cheap PC’s. The main problem with Apple’s administration is the fact that they don’t want (in Apple’s jargon, “need”) to listen to us. They think their choices are insanely great and they act with an enormous ego, because of they old but still powerful products.
For example, you can take the iPhone’s story of copying and pasting. Don’t you think it’s a little bit stupid for Apple ? I’m sure they have enough time to create a tiny soft for our needs. Moreover, if a company is that great, it shouldn’t let a website like this to be filled with lamentations as the time passes.
However, I love Apple more than any other company in the world, but, as we say in France, qui aime bien, châtie bien (spare the rod, spoil the child).
This netbook is designed by Isamu Sanada, a great designer of Apple’s unofficial products.
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This, is an Abraham Lincoln’s speech in 1862. “But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter” (this is Bob Dylan).
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Tired of XP ? Tarik Qrim, Netvibes founder & Web entrepreneur, quitted his Web company to bring you this new OS. It’s free and it’s specially crafted for netbooks. As you can see on the picture above, there is really big icons on the desktop because of little screens of netbooks, interesting, huh ? I think this will enhance, once again, netbook’s market because it’s free and it looks very simple and useful. But now, the switching between the OS’s must be really simple and the intuitive aspect of this netbook should be as powerful & innovative as Apple’s. Why ? Because this is Linux !
We’ve decided that the final launch of the personal tech review TechAwe’s will take place this Monday. Be there.
Pour diverses raisons comme l’épanouissement linguistique, la visibilité, la découverte de nouveaux horizons, nous avons décidé de passer Whytech uniquement en ANGLAIS. Cependant, chaque semaine, les meilleurs articles de TechAwe (oui, nous l’avons renommé ainsi (Tech : Technology, Awe : Sentiment de peur, de crainte mais d’admiration respectueuse)) seront publiés en FRANCAIS sur mon blog personnel Ulysse.me. Merci, merci pour tout, merci à tous.
For various reasons such as language development, visibility, discovery of new horizons, we have decided to write Whytech in English only. However, each week the best articles of TechAwe will be published in FRENCH on my personal blog Ulysse.me. Thank you, thank you for everything, thank you all.
We can now delete our comments from YouTube, interesting, or not
For some of you, this is exceptional. Info sharing, friends, is a virtue…