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Well, Google real customers are advertisers. They sure need to welcome their customers in their network.

I'm happy with Netvibes. It has a widget view like iGoogle and a Reader view like Google Reader. I find the latter to be better now. It integrates with Facebook and Twitter, if it'…

> Assuming they lose in court They sure can't win in court as they're not informed that they're being judged before the judgment is passed. There is no possible defense. > on somet…

* Lack of sunlight

As far as I know, Eurozone businesses and individuals can have their bank account anywhere in the Eurozone. Paypal and Stripe may only have offices in Luxembourg to serve all EUR c…

They just replaced the pretty but useless wallpaper on the desktop by a full-screen version of the start menu. Start typing 'wo' and you get the link to Microsoft Word (and WoW, an…

Windows Azure seems pretty cool. At least it has the best relational database of the big three clouds, and the best blobstore+CDN solution. However, it makes IIS mandatory, which s…

I have a 17'' (1920*1080) laptop at home and a 27'' iMac at work. For displaying the likes of Netbeans, both are comfortable. I don't display the browser in full screen on the iMac…

I don't think the critics of the NYT where out of touch with reality. The big 3 French newspaper (lemonde.fr, lefigaro.fr, liberation.fr) are all much easier to scan than the likes…

I would include a pattern matching line: $date = "2011-07-29"; $list($year, $month, $day) = explode("-", $date); With whatever is cooler than a date, or with the company's creation…

My bank only allows passwords to be made of 5 numbers. The interesting thing to note is that if they had any significant problem with this scheme, they would have changed it. Maybe…

This past year I followed a web development course. I'm now supposed to work 3 months for free. I don't mind it because I've been jobless for a long time before. The problem is, I …

VPN will become the norm. Internet access will be 30€ for the ISP + 5 € for the VPN. Not that much of a big deal for the citizen, more worrying for Paris as a tech scene.

Oh please people stop using this top bar that appears after we scrolled, it's today's version of blinking flash banners.

No, they're centralized like Twitter. StatusNet is like the Wordpress of microblogging. Each Wordpress installation is its own isolated island. It's the same with StatusNet.

Plus Nokia certainly negotiated a great deal. If they get WP7 licenses for 1$ when others get it for 10$, they have room to provide better quality for the same retail price, while …

It's hard to find a great company name. There are some WTF names like Apple Computers, or obscure acronyms like IBM. Specifically English words like MySpace are great for English-s…

We already have wavelet codecs like Dirac, which are quite exotic compared to MPEG4 / VP8 / Theora.

Wait, China allowed Skype? Where has their protectionism gone?

Riak is distributed (it automatically shards data on many servers). CouchDB runs on a single server, although it can easily have as many mirrors as needed. Also, Riak features an i…

And leave the Web as a set of static pages like in the nineties? Web applications are desirable, if only because they're multi-platform. Javascript is what saved us from those slow…

Yandex has its own index and shows good results in English (but no photo/video search). Exalead has its own index too but it lacks a good junk filter à la PageRank.

It relies on Google Voice which is not available in France anyway.

A little while ago, Twitter only stored our last 20 tweets and discarded the previous ones. When they stopped being that much ephemeral, no one noticed.

They won't ditch the euro, it's what saved them. The drachme would have worthed nothing if it were still Greece's currency. The healthier EU countries created a fund in order to sa…