Papenoo

Tabs on Netvibes

Franck Mahon — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:04:05 +0000

The long awaited feature which would allow you to use tabs on Netvibes has just been added to the preview web site.

You can check my flickr gallery for more pictures

MMO Pong

Franck Mahon — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:49:08 +0000

I just found this massive multiplayer online pong game and trust me, it’s the best way to hate all your team mates…

Nativetext: Easy translation for blogs and podcasts

Franck Mahon — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:14:01 +0000

Nativetext is a free web service that translates RSS feeds from blogs and podcasts into foreign languages.

Using a new kind of distributed supercomputing, foreign language translation is performed by a network of millions of humans around the world, not machines. Translated content is served to a global readership through native language syndication.

Yes, you read it right, the service is free! I hope the beta will be available soon because I’m sure that we have here the service everyone wants to use since it fullfills the need of all blogs and podcasts…
I’ve already added my name to the notification list.

Web 2.0 Quizz

Franck Mahon — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 09:40:35 +0000

I thought I had a good Web 2.0 knowledge but I was just wrong.
Try the quizz.

Source: Crunchnotes.

Holidays…

Franck Mahon — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:11:38 +0000

I’m leaving today and will join my family to spend Christmas with them in my hometown.

I wish to all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with lots of prosperity and happiness.

See you in 2006…

Ookles?

Franck Mahon — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:42:29 +0000

Scott Johnson is co-founder of Feedster. He succefully built the now famous search engine but left the company last week in order to build a new startup called Ookles.
Ookles is still in stealth mode and lot of people are trying to guess what this next company will be.

My guess is that Ookles will have something to do with podcasting.

Why am I writing that? Because of the following hints which are on Scott Johnson’s blog:

A new podcasting category has been created on his blog at the beginning of December.
Scott visited Podshow’s offices last Thursday afternoon.
Scott will be at the PodcasterCon 2006, a free one day conference open to all participants to discuss and learn about podcasting.

Maybe I’m wrong and it’ll only be a porn search engine…

Anyway, if you want to know when they’re ready to go you can enter your email address in the form on their homepage.

Disclaimer: I’m not member of this project and this post is only my personnal opinion, so don’t take it too seriously

Update: Scott Johnson just denied this rumor… sorry guys.

Oh My Pod!

Franck Mahon — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:29:21 +0000

This is just a quick post for my french readers. Last week, during a conference, I met Tariq Krim, one of the founder of Netvibes. Tariq is also the founder of a large french webportal and blogging network called GenerationMp3.

We both discussed about our projects and agreed to start a new french blog under the GenerationMp3 label. I’m proud now to present this new blog called Oh My Pod! Congrats to Tariq for the name.

I’ll talk on this blog, in french, about what podcasting is, what my crushs are, I’ll also give some tips about software and hardware, and if everything is OK I’ll also try to host some interviews (I someone has some podcastings experience to share and wants to be interviewed, just drop me an email ^_^).

If you want to subscribe, here is the direct link to the feed.

PS: As some of you already figured it out, Papenoo will have something to do with podcasts…

mooflex demo

Franck Mahon — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:23:46 +0000

The guys from Mad4milk released last week a demo of their main product mooflex. Mooflex is a content management system (CMS) which will help you to create a variety of websites, from simple blogs to more complicated, multi-author portals.

With this demo you’ll be abble to log into their server and play with all those nice features theit build thanks to moo.fx, the nice javascript library they also developped.

A public beta will be launched around on Christmas and I’m pretty sure we have here one the the tool which will be used a lot in the future…

Disturbed audience

Franck Mahon — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:40:55 +0000

If you want to see how disturbing it must be for a speaker to be in a conference room where 50% of the people do look at their laptops instead of you, be sure to check Rodrigo’s post.
Rodrigo taped and uploaded a video of the audience while he was on stage.

From this point of view I understand better why a speaker can implode on stage… Don’t you?

MiniBarCamp Paris

Franck Mahon — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:18:07 +0000

This event, which has been organised at the last moment, did in fact have a great response. We were between 25 and 30 people in a nice bar in Paris that Francois found. The bar had free wifi (really good bandwith) and 2 projectors that we used for the presentations.

First thing we did was in fact to eat, since at the conference nothing was bigger than my thumb. While we were eating we all started to be San Fransocial meaning that instead of chatting face to face, we used the laptops to check emails and to keep in touch with our friends who were not physically there. Of course this term has been invented by a member of the San Francisco crew, Chris Messina, which was with us.

Tara started the demo sessions by showing us Riya which is a face recognition tool. You can send the pictures that you have on your harddrive and the software will locate everything which looks like a face or text in it. You can then start giving names to thoses faces and the software is abble to tag automatically the remaining pictures. Of course you have full control of the process and if some mistakes occurs (it can of course always happen, nobody’s perfect) it’s really easy to correct.
Tara gave a really good presentation and seeing her using the software which is still in “buggy alpha” stage I can say that this is a great tool. To be honest I saw absolutely no bug during the presentation but once all of them will be solved we will have a killer application.
I now have an alpha account and will post soon my own experience with the tool.

Chris Messina, Director of Experience and Open Source Ambassador at Flock, gave us then a demo of their navigator. Some of us are already using it but it’s always a pleasure to see Chris sharing his experience and putting such energy into building a really nice social browser. Flock allows you to blog directly from within the browser, to synchronize your bookmarks with del.icio.us and to explore your flickr account in order to quickly add pictures into your posts.
Chris showed us some amazing features which will soon be integrated like a brand new Flickr explorer for instance.
I’m really exited to have the new version of Flock in order to play with those new features…

To finish, Benjamin Bejbaum from Dailymotion gave us a quick demo of his online video sharing tool. It was amazing. I didn’t know that such a tool did exist and that a french team was behind it. To see by yourself don’t hesitate to watch the videos he took during the evening. He almost uploaded them as soon as they were shot and a farm of server is encoding them to Quicktime, Windows Media Video and Flash. You can then watch them on Dailymotion or add them onto your own blog and all of this is free.
(Personnal note to Benjamin: Man, you’ll have to stop using ecstasy pills while doing presentations :))

Francois from Blogmarks, who was the first one to suggest that having a BarCamp in Paris would be a really great idea, didn’t gave a demo but showed us directly on his laptop some teasings of the new features he’s working on. (Bonus: here’s the presentation he didn’t do. Enjoy!)

The next step will now be to organise a true BarCamp in Paris. When? Where? At the moment we don’t know but we will work on it on 2006. If you have some nice ideas don’t hesitate to add comments.
Ben Metcalfe who was with us also suggested to have a BarCamp in London which I believe would be amazing.

Stay all tuned for more information about all of this…

More info: The official wiki page…