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Archive for August, 2005

Pandora, my new radio

Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Pandora is a music discovery service. You tell it your favorite songs or artists and they give you a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe. Scoble has also some explanations.
For now it’s an invitation-only service, but luckily a friend just sent me an invitation. So I tried it and created a […]

5!

Friday, August 12th, 2005

They have been to Budapest for their holidays, hoping to meet nice people and have a lot of fun, but in no way thinking it would change their life.

Extract from our wedding gazette.
5 years ago Ingrid and I met. It was in Budapest, Hungary, where we spent two amazing weeks. In fact there are two […]

Give me a Slide Show button in my wiki

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Yesterday I wrote on how to use S5 Presents to build the wiki equivalent of slide shows. But it would be actually better to be able to view any wiki page as a slide show. Any wiki page would have “Slide Show” button that would start a slide show.
This could be easily built by writing […]

Better slide show with S5 Presents

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

I’m convinced since some time that wikis are great tools for companies. They are open, easy and fast to use, well, they just work. Ross Mayfield understood this early and his company sells a wiki for businesses (and he seems to be doing great). Since a few weeks I’ve had the chance to experiment […]

One month of Skype, Estonian, Wikis

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

One month now that I’m working at Skype. In this month, I had the privilege of beta-testing Skype video (indeed the quality is very good) as well as playing with the Skype wifi phone (very cool).
This is only the tip of the iceberg I can discuss about on this blog but I can tell you […]