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"API contribute to better interoperability. Open source provides various degrees of freedom to do whatever you want with the software. Those are two orthogonal dimensions. The main result of the widespread availability of web APIs is the commoditization of the software services exposed that way. That is a benefit for the consumer, but a different benefit than those provided by open source." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"The ones that win are the ones that ship" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Do we really have that much control ? Language spreads along cultural influence. Diversity in language provides insight into social history and a wealth of interesting information about patterns of thought. But lowering the barriers to communication may be even more valuable. And anyway – when social groups form, they always form their own language too… So I’m not worried about languages dying and forming : it is the natural ebb and flow of cultures that manifests itself in this way." - Jean-Marc Liotier

<blockquote> I’m concerned that dilution of Google’s admin standards in the federation servers field over the long term will erode Google data security.</blockquote> When you use Gmail, are you concerned by the dilution of Google’s admin standards in SMTP servers ? That is the beauty of federation : each user gets to chose the server whose admin standards he favors – and all get to interoperate !" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"In Paris, the reference point of the whole French geodesic system (in front of the Notre dame Cathedral) is a common consensual position. Maybe this ancient system also provides a good reference in other cities, which would explain its resurgence in modern mapping applications. I like the idea of probing mental models through the simple device of asking where the center is." - Jean-Marc Liotier

Clearly it must also have some guarantees re: backup and export, so all the work of people adding knowledge and stories to old (and not so old) pictures can't vanish with 30days notice. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Great! - Bruce Lewis

"Why all the bad vibes ? As the saying goes, “be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive”. I suffer daily people with 30 lines signatures who ignore quoting and use the most horrible Outlook stationery, but I don’t complain and keep sending properly quoted messages in a sober attire. I enjoy plain text because it is the lowest common denominator that works even on the least functional display across the slowest and lossiest link. And plain text makes proper quoting more coherent across multiple users in a thread. But I silently deal with HTML too – most of the time I’m all tooled up to render it painlessly, even in Mutt. Sometimes HTML is painful (horribly slow link or horribly limited display) but such bad conditions are a marginal use-case nowadays. I even admit sending HTML mail occasionally – tables are so much easier in HTML than in ASCII artful ways…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Certes c’est une pratique répandue depuis longtemps, mais jusqu’à maintenant j’avais eu la chance d’être client d’ISP qui n’avaient pas encore cédé à la tentation. Si les anglophones habitués de ces questions ont pu suivre ce débat depuis quelques années, le grand public Français est moins au fait – alors cet exposé me paraissait utile, même si la pureté technique d’un service grang public n’a évidemment aucune chance face à une source de revenu…" - Jean-Marc Liotier

Au suject du controle de DNS, sans savoir les details c'est difficile de juger, mais sur le sujet je suis assez partagee: d'un cote en tant qu'utilisatrice au courant je deteste, parcequ'en general soit c'est une faute de frappe et le recherche ne va pas m'aider, soit le site est indisponible et je prefere voire l'erreur en detail. Et aussi je sais que tout cela est lucratif - des... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

"Aucune idée, mais je crois plutôt que je ne suis pas le seul que ça a choqué. Inliner m’a passée ton URL cette après-midi… Il est plus rapide que toi !" - Jean-Marc Liotier

Nice ending, but it would be better when used with the original survival rule of three - three seconds to die of panic, three minutes to die of asphyxia, three hours to die of exposure, three days to die of thirst, three weeks to die of starvation, three months to die of hopelessness. I like this easy to remember survival framework - it provides a great guideline for organizing priorities. - Jean-Marc Liotier

This is certainly close to that start of my sanity list, which further includes "go outdoors" and "play" (got a dog to make sure I cannot forget those two) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I'm still banging into "sorry Hometown's gone" page on a regular basis when doing research, recently it was for costume information - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

And it gets worse, according to archiveteam: "Geocities only allow 15 megabytes of a website to be downloaded during a given hour, from anywhere, before that site goes “down” until the hour is up. " - so people are supposed to manually download their site, but if the site is large after a while it goes down, and how are people supposed to know that they must return in an hour and... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I've been getting this that email ever since I started using latitude. It's odd that you just started getting the email now. did you just turn it on recently? - Chris Faulkner

Here's where I changed a related setting a long time ago: http://www.google.com/latitud... But (a) it was for the public badge, a specific feature within Latitude and (b) it looks like it is still turned off. So there's probably new additional reminders in place Google put in place recently - Yves Le Jan

"You are not the only one struck by the similarity. Take a look at this Nintendo DS artfully painted to resemble the Donkey Kong Game & Watch : http://kotomiblog.blogspot.com/2006.... Nintendo even released the Nintendo DS game Game & Watch Collection, a cartridge that features ports of three classic LCD games from Nintendo’s past : http://uk.ds.ign.com/article..." - Jean-Marc Liotier

That's in part because many people see video as easier than writing - no need to plan or script it, just babble and people will watch - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

The only videos I find useful are either the highly edited ones or those which render an impression of an atmosphere. For the rest, I wish there was a transcript available along with the video. - Jean-Marc Liotier

(posting anonymously because I don't want to post in my own name about my sexual orientations) Why not look at the bright side of it ? I'm a European guy whose taste leans heavily toward living with an African, and I thank those other white guys who bias this market segment in my favor ! Same with the employment market : companies who have are not hiring this talent because they don't... more... - Jean-Marc Liotier from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I found Dropbox to work nicely on both Linux and Microsoft Windows. But plain rsync is fine too in most cases. - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Looks like obsolescence of physical keys. I imagine them becoming supports for cryptographic authentication. The biggest problem will be that this security is dependant on an electricity source." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Looks like obsolescence of physical keys. I imagine them becoming supports for cryptographic authentication. The biggest problem will be that this security is dependant on an electricity source." - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Serna Free XML editor is an easy-to-use open source WYSIWYG XML editor for those who wish to smoothly adopt the XML technology. Indeed, Serna Free is the most powerful among free and open source XML editors for WYSIWYG authoring. Most people will find Serna Free XML content editor easy to use as it hides all the complexities of the underlying XML technology. Authors with virtually no XML experience can easily start working with structured XML content in a familiar environment that looks much like a conventional word processor." - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) from Bookmarklet

well, i'll proly give it a spin. never hurts to have another bow in your quiver<g>. - MikeAmundsen

"@Nate Baxley A list of del.icio.us clones : http://autonomo.us/wiki..." - Jean-Marc Liotier

Some of it will depend on how hard to you want to pedal without getting sweaty before work and if any of it is uphill. I have absolutely no idea :) - Lindsey is Fierce!

No way I would ride my bike in office clothes - I carry towel, shoes, pants and shirts in my panniers. Cycling clothes make any weather painless, so I prefer to change when arriving at work. - Jean-Marc Liotier

in a text document format you can skim the bits that are too slow, and slow down on tricky bits, but video forces their view on you - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

You spoke my mind, Joelle. The only videos I think are worthwhile watching are when multiple people are interacting in real life - conferences, discussions, etc. Single person interviews/videos force their slow speed on me, and I always prefer text transcripts. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

guess not... always on to the next thing, eh? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

There were many note-on-browser products that work in one browser. Not so many that work in all browsers (there are some, I will look them up). Notefish was an information capture tool, from desktop or web pages - it differed from most because it allows you to move bits around freely, which is better for the way I think (even on paper I write non linearly, in little bunches, with lines and arrows to relate things etc.) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Web-based social bookmarking system. Allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I run a Scuttle instance for half a dozen users, but I wonder about its future - the last fixes were more than a year and a half ago, and the last features added were more than three years ago. The lack of a captcha forced me to comment out the user registration code, and I have not yet managed to find a way to synchronize it (at least one way) with Del.icio.us. I like having an autonomous tool for my own online bookmarks, but in an increasingly social environment I resent Scuttle's limits. - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Same observations, but different conclusion : I find catching up boring. So a tool that gives everyone a baseline of information on everyone else shields us from repeating the same stories to each of our friends, and suffering repetition of other people’s stories. Then when we meet our friends we can focus on experiencing something together instead of recounting past experiences." - Jean-Marc Liotier

Interesting - I'm likely to invest more time in Facebook. And less in Twitter. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

And um....that specific client that I should be pushing works with identi.ca too! You can post to everywhere with a single click. Long live the Federation and multi-network clients :) (PeopleBrowsr btw, for everyone else) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

"As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users. It’s more about highlighting new content relevant to the user and fostering conversations about that content. And the result is that the Facebook home page looks an awful lot like the exponentially smaller activity stream aggregation service called Friendfeed." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

Funny how one year later we are actually seeing the Facebookization of Friendfeed... - Jean-Marc Liotier

"Yνῶθι σεαυτόν - thine own self thou must know. Narcissism aside, if you have never performed an ego search, then you have no idea how your digitally projected self is perceived by incoming outsiders. That knowledge may be useful for managing your own image." - Jean-Marc Liotier

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"Excellent summary of the corporate adoption process – it quite accurately reflects my experiences in the last ten years. The “use-case/no use case” dichotomy is a very good idea – I had fuzzily thought about that, but you make the process very clear !" - Jean-Marc Liotier

I'll be there from July 11th until August 3rd. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Jean-Marc Liotier