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Et Cetera: Skype, phones, blogs, food…

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

With the big move to the north and some issues with broadband connection, I had a lot of catch-up to do in my readings, but now it’s time to do a little Et Cetera.
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel are working on a book on blogging. They posted on their blog the raw notes of their […]

Et Cetera: SkypeIn, amateur movies, update on older posts

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

I’m not blogging a lot these days since I don’t have Internet access at home yet, but here are some of the news I noticed in the last days.
Skype launched their SkypeIn service, which allows you to get a normal phone number for your Skype account. Over at Skype Journal they have a few interesting […]

Et Cetera: It’s all about wireless

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

Looking at how much there is about wireless on my link blog, it sounds like a good choice to stay in the same industry for my new job. Here’s a little link selection.
Symbian OS version 9 was launched. Many nice features, it should give us some cool Nokia phones.
On the other hand, Motorola will introduce […]

Et Cetera: Blogging in France, Podcasting, TV-B-Gone…

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

First, let me point out that blogging made the first page of a big French national newspaper this weekend (plus 3 full pages inside). France is really getting aware of blogging, or at least the French press (it’s a bit slower by my colleagues…).
I wrote about podcasting earlier. One of my favorite podcast is the […]

Et Cetera: Apple, LinkedIn, Skype, DLP, Estonia…

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

I’m borrowing the title from ArsTechnica to point out and comment on some of the interesting things I have been putting in my link blog lately.
A survey seems to show that over 10% of PC users, who buy an iPod, switch or consider switching to the Mac. It pretty much supports what I was writing […]