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2009 28 October

Have an augmented reality halloween party

meijer.com launched for halloween a small augmented reality app.

It’s easy to use : click here, install the plugin, and enjoy =)

You can wear a virtual mask that will follow you as you move, change your voice, and create small films you can send to your friends (and also do advertisements for meijer.com :-P )

Demo video :

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2009 9 October

Amazon launching its kindle in Europe : 7 reasons not to buy it.

This piece of news only exists in French (sorry dudes), feel free to use online translators if interested in.

Après quelques mois de vente outre-atlantique, Amazon se décide à distribuer son livre électronique en europe. L’offre peut sembler alléchante, mais quelques points noirs commencent déjà à apparaitre :

  1. Seul le Kindle V2 est en vente à l’internationale, pas le DX qui dispose d’un écran plus grand. Conseil : attendre que le DX soit lui aussi en vente à l’international l’an prochain.
  2. Les livres du catalogue d’Amazon sont uniquement en anglais. A moins d’être capable de lire la langue de la perfide Albion, acheter un kindle est aussi utile qu’acheter une télé ne captant que les chaînes russes, serbes ou chinoises.
  3. Le Kindle est expédié uniquement avec une prise aux normes électriques US, vous pourrez tout de même le recharger sur la prise USB de votre ordinateur sinon il faudra que vous achetiez un adaptateur.
  4. Quand vous achetez un livre en dehors des USA, ça vous coûtera 1,99$ de plus par livre.
  5. N’oublions pas qu’Amazon a choisi un format propriétaire pour ses livres, ce qui signifie que ces derniers ne peuvent être lus que sur un Kindle (ou sur un iPhone avec un logiciel Kindle)
  6. Personne n’a oublié l’affaire des livres effacés à distance. “Amazon ! Je te vois !”
  7. Il n’y a pas que le Kindle dans le monde, il y a le Cybook de Bookeen ou le Reader de Sony, puis l’an prochain, l’eReader tactile de PlasticLogic.

Qu’en dites-vous ? Pensez vous qu’Amazon pourra corriger la plupart de ces défauts rapidement ?

Seriez vous prêt à acquérir cet appareil ? (qui est vendu aux alentours de 190€)

Si vous ne connaissez pas l’appareil, voici une petite vidéo de démonstration :

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Via Gizmodo


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2009 17 September

“Désirs D’avenir”: indeed not numeric Mrs Royal!

Have you heard about Ségolène Royal website: http://www.desirsdavenir.org/?

We are not here to judge content quality (because we are not making politics) but conception itself.

If, by chance, you can succeed to connect to her website, you will see numerous error 500, error 404…

In addition, you will a design from 90’s. Beautiful colors, a very nice wallpaper from Windows Vista.

Ex-Internet webmaster of Segolene Royal, Benoit Theulin, said that is a “numeric suicide”. It’s enough to say.

But, the most surprising is the price nearly 42000 euros. You are not dreaming and this is not a typing error.In order to make you realize, I’m writing it in full letters: fourty two thousand euros. When you know, this is André Hadjez, her current boyfriend, who have made the website. Considering this invoice, it will allow him to take some training regarding CSS, programmation… Let’s think about a full training session for all French politics including Mr Lefebvre. (by this way, he will perhaps deliver a better definition of Web 2.0).

Just imagine one moment that her staff have put a Google Alert on “Désir d’avenir” …

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http://www.infos-du-net.com/actualite/15995-desir-avenir-Royal.html

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To entertain you:

Générateur de Désirs d’Avenir


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2009 2 September

From Apple Keynote to Nokia World

Apple Keynote has become the big event of the year for any geeks.

Thousands of journalists, blogers, twits, videos, rumors …

Turmoil that you do not see every day.

And if other high tech brands tried to copy this communication strategy ?

Nokia seems to reproduce this through Nokia World.

Nevertheless, should they have enough resources to sucess their bet ?

Indeed, we are talking about a big challenge. “Double or nothing”… . The double-edged effect of such communications may lead to an incredible buzz or a failure.

Nokia is getting into mass social media by its 100% website dedicated to the event. Is it a way for Nokia to show that they still remains cellphones leader ?

Anyway, some new stuff for Nokia ; here it is ;)

X3, X6, Booklet, Mini 97

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More generally, we can wonder ourselves: if each brand is focused on its way of communication, what is the interest for events such as 3 GSM ?


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2009 25 August

“Capitalism: A love story”, Michael Moore is back

After the release of Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 911, Sicko, Mickael Moore is back.

Guns, terrorism and Bush administration, health care system, will we find back polemist verve in this new opus called: “Capitalism: A love story ?”

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