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Entries from David Roessli's Empty Set tagged with 'social'
Using Tumblr as a travel log
The Empty Set has been on the back burner for a little while now, one reason being that we travelled back to India this winter for a little under a month. Add to that the end of year rush...
Nouvelle Vague in concert in Lausanne
Last night was magical. We were teleported to Les Docks in Lausanne to listen to Nouvelle Vague in concert. It was my first time at Les Docks and I found the place very friendly and well laid out. The...
Yahoo! Meme
Yahoo! seems to be launching a Twitter/Tumblr service call Meme. Yahoo! has been very quiet about this and seems to be experimenting it in Portuguese and Spanish first. Found the new Internet hit? Send it to your Meme. Everyone...
Tango Boo
We enjoyed Lalo Zanelli & Ombù Sextet at the Parc des Eaux-Vives last night, and I took the opportunity to play around with AudioBoo. Lalo Zanelli - former pianist of the Gotan Project - and his sextet gave the...
27 Jun 2009
atmedia • conference • mood • self • social
Homebound
Waiting in lounge at London City Airport. @media 2009 came to a close yesterday with Patrick announcing he's retiring from web design, development and conference organising. I'm feeling a little emotional, but I wish to thank Patrick for what...
Twitterverse
Discover the twirl of services and applications that gravitate from or around Twitter. Twitter by all means is a micro social network, but I was surprised to discover a wealth of macro services I had never heard of. I...
Coeur à Choeur
Last night I discovered the Chorale des Bains' new show named “Choeur à Coeur” at La Traverse in the Paquis. So much more than a traditional choir, the Chorale des Bains delivers a full fledge show, tied up in...
Volchok
Last night I lived one of those magical moments life is punctuated with. We walked down the road to the place Audéoud, at Chêne-Bougeries, to take part of the Festival des 20 ans du Théâtre-Cirqule. Three circus tents, a friendly...
An evening with Violeta
I discovered Violeta Parra, a Chilean poet and visual artist, through an remarkable performance of Michèle Millner together with Yves Cerf, Paco Chambi and Sylvain Fournier last might at the AMR. Michèle Millner interprets Violeta Parra with her heart...
Animoto for the iPhone
As a followup to the Animoto's post, I have just discovered the Animoto iPhone application (iTS link). A nifty little application that lets you build free 30 seconds long videos from images stored on your iPhone. Select 8 or...
Animoto - clever slideshows
I have just discovered animoto, a different way of creating slideshows from local or online stored image files. Basically, it's a nifty online Flash app that lets you create a free 30 seconds long slideshow video from your photos....
Geneva Apple Store is open
The Geneva Apple Store opened yesterday at 17:00 CET. It is Apple's 242nd store worldwide. I wasn't sure to attend, but curiosity got the best of me. Not curiosity of the store itself as I was very much sure...
Social unnetworking
I have a strange relationship with technology lately. Things tend to break, malfunction, bug more often than usual. My levels of electrostatic fluid must be high. Anyway, with the summer closing in and automn's cold lick too close to...
Waiter Rant
I haven't posted many book reviews since I relaunched this weblog. Not that I didn't want to, or was at a loss. Quite the contrary. I have a number of books I would { have } like{ed} to talk...
In sync
As March looms in once more with its load of festivities, rejoicing (and workload), Emma will turn 7 and Mathias 9 over the following couple of weeks. Birthday parties are being organised, birthday invitations designed and printed, wish-lists amended....
8 Feb 2008
conference • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - Foresight and wrap up
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Friday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later and break it up ion separate posts. Some day. Maybe. - I slowed down on...
8 Feb 2008
conference • entreprise • lift08 • social • web
LIFT08 - Web and entreprises
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Friday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later and break it up ion separate posts. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. The purpose...
8 Feb 2008
conference • gaming • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - Gaming
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Friday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later and break it up ion separate posts. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. Robin Hunicke...
8 Feb 2008
conference • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - New frontiers
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Friday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later and break it up ion separate posts. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. This track...
7 Feb 2008
asia • conference • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - A glimpse of Asia
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Thursday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. With LIFT going to Asia, we want to share...
7 Feb 2008
conference • lift • lift08 • social • stories
LIFT08 - Stories
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Thursday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. This track is aimed at hearing the stories of...
7 Feb 2008
conference • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - User experience
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Thursday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. Younghee Jung Anthropologist at Nokia Tokyo. Telecommunications have been...
7 Feb 2008
conference • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT08 - Online Environments
Warning: the following notes were live blogged on Thursday by session, so please forgive the typos and semantic errors, I'll brush it up later. Some day. Maybe. Watch the videos. Bruce Sterling The first I heard of Bruce Sterling...
7 Feb 2008
conference • geneva • lift • lift08 • social
LIFT 2008
Back to the LIFT conference for the first day of conferences. As last year, I dodn't manage to attend the workshops, or at least not in a serious fashion, but I'm here for the full two days of conferences...
Earth Hour 2008
A couple a days ago, a tweet from my friend Madhava attracted my attention: I followed it and discovered the Earth Hour project. Last year, Australian WWF organized the original Earth Hour during which over 2.2 million residents of Sydney...
4 Oct 2007
future • localisation • microformat • semantic • social • web
Thoughts on Web Strategy
Regularly, I get asked about the future of the web, or what is the next big thing?, what is all this Web 2.0 buzz? or I get called in to talk about web strategy in general or in particular. My...
11 May 2007
microformat • social • twitter
Twitter cleanup
Spent the last 10 minutes cleaning up my Twitter follower's list. Twitter has just introduced a new feature called "block": We've introduced a new feature lots of folks requested called "block." Blocking someone means that you (and your pic) will...
5 Mar 2007
french • l10n • language • localisation • social • switzerland
Swiss french speak French
Why can't web app developers embrace the idea that language should be assigned as an array and not a single variable to a country? Switzerland has 4 official languages plus English. Defaulting to German is plain shortsighted. I learned...
22 Feb 2007
conference • design • fowalondon07 • london • social • wifi
After FoWA London 2007
Heathrow Airport, gate 19, waiting to board the plane back to Geneva with Mathias and Enrique. The Future of Web Apps 2007 conference wrapped up yesterday for us as we didn't attend today's workshops. I'm flying back with mixed...
9 Feb 2007
conference • geneva • lift • lift07 • social
My short Lift 2007
The Lift Conference 2007 is wrapping up while I write these lines. I didn't manage to attend it as I initially planned to. I was going to spend Thursday and Friday following the conferences and socialising. The reality turned...
Your latest t-shirt
Do you buy t-shirts on internet?. I do. Essentially geeky and crypted branded one (gibberish for some). My latest acquisitions are from A List Apart and Insanely Great Tees. Good quality cotton, nice colours and nice prints. As a...
7 Feb 2007
apple • conference • design • mac • social
WWDC07
Whoosh, I received a Time Machine Leopard teaser styled invitation in my mail today. Now, what does that tell us on 10.5 UI? Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference will be help on June 11-15th, 2007 in San Francisco....
Apple UK ads
The Get a Mac adverts are available on Apple's UK website with new actors. I find them funnier than the original ones. It must be that English dry humour touch.....
What is your notepad bag?
If you own a notepad (aka laptop) computer you care for, you probably own a well designed, strong and sturdy laptop bag, with all the appropriate protection your investment requires. I get the impression people aren't that worried about...
Dingalingaling
I've just been given one of the funniest ringtone I've happen to hear since I own a mobile phone. Thanks Sergio. MP3 Flash Player courtesy of dewplayer. It come as an MP3 file (a little over 2Mb): 07_Radjiv_07.mp3. I have...
Stopdesign is back. Just write.
I was pleased to discover that Douglas Bowman (Stopdesign) has resumed writing again after a pause of a year or so. I particulary enjoyed the reasons why he stopped and why he is resuming. So I stopped using my feed...
Do you tweet?
I have just discovered Twitter and must confess it is kind of sticky. I especially enjoy the ability to post through via mobile phone. Unlike other IM, your message || status || tweet remains there when your computer is...
5 Jan 2007
An Event Apart 2007
Waow. I've just discovered An Event Apart through an ad on A List Apart. The list of speakers left me drooling with envy. Steve Krug Cameron Moll Andrew Kirkpatrick Dan Cederholm Molly Holzschlag Ethan Marcotte Jason Santa Maria Eric...
Welcome to 2007
Another reboot, another go, another cycle, another round, another song, another day, another year. I wish you a healthy and harmonious one to you all....
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