Pierre Arlais

Like the Time Tunnel ; ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - MillyNeT

talking bear - Pierre Arlais

Property landlords said that the American company, which has a market value of $59.1 billion (£35.6 billion), had launched a secret search for bricks-and-mortar stores to support its rapidly growing website. It is understood to be scouring the country for high-profile sites just as the Borders book chain is shutting up shop. - Pierre Arlais

“What is the Role of Meaning and Behavior in Our Work?” After some discussion and much coffee, this group of frogs landed on several recurring design themes relating to the topic. Here is the visual reenactment of the conversations and explorations at frog forum.tx on the role of the designer in the meaning business. - Pierre Arlais

Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation. The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy interface: openGL for graphics, rtAudio for audio input and output, freeType for fonts,freeImage for image input and output, quicktime for video playing and sequence grabbing. The code is written to be both cross platform (PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone) and cross compiler. The API is designed to be minimal and easy to grasp. There are very few classes, and inside of those classes, there are very few functions. The code has been implemented so that within the classes there are minimal cross-referening, making it quite easy to rip out and reuse, if you need, or to extend. - Pierre Arlais

CritSend ensures your email reaches its appropriate inbox and will not end up in a spam box. We deliver over 2 million automated emails per day: invoices, password notifications, transactional, newsletters, email marketing and more. - Pierre Arlais

Beginning today, Google will now personalize the search results of anyone who uses its search engine, regardless of whether they’ve opted-in to a previously existing personalization feature. - Pierre Arlais

RateTea.net is a website where anyone can rate and review teas and learn about tea. - Pierre Arlais

Clixpy is a web usability testing tool. It’s very easy to install, just by pasting a few lines of JavaScript code in your site’s HTML. When users browse your website Clixpy traces everything they do and then plays it for you, giving you the opportunity to extract any information you may need. - Pierre Arlais

It all started with Classmates.com, which apparently has 50,000,000 users now. On the top of the pyramid is Facebook and its 300 million users, followed by MySpace's 263 million. In the middle you have a huge constellation of sites, most of which I just can't recognize. Trombi? Vampirefreaks? Bigadda? Cafemom? Geni? Itsmy? Qzone? Xanga? - Pierre Arlais

smrt : The Royal College of Art's graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air. - Pierre Arlais

Build It With Me is a tool that connects design & development entrepreneurs. It exists to make creating apps easier by connecting you with like-minded designers & developers with the same goal: create cool & useful apps. Getting funding for your app idea is hard and often unrealistic. Most of the time you may just need to connect with a partner who has a skill set you lack to finish off your app. This is where Build It With Me is comes in, connecting you to those people. Skip the funding. Build It With Me will help you bootstrap your ideas into actual apps. - Pierre Arlais

While it is true your ISP is in a similar position (although chances are they couldn't retain or analyze the traffic like google can due to lack of resources), your ISPs motivation of offering you DNS is to make the web work, while google's has some sort of yet to be determined financial benefit (they are a publicly traded company looking out for shareholders after all) which is likely related to your personal habits. - Pierre Arlais

But by the beginning of 2008, things began to sour. Facebook, a rival social network that was simpler and easier to use, was gaining momentum and starting to grow more quickly than MySpace. [...] Users began to desert the site, which had become cluttered with unappealing ads for teeth straightening and weight-loss products. Since then, MySpace has shed 40 per cent of its staff, closed many of its international offices and publicly given up trying to match Facebook in the race to become the world’s biggest social network. - Pierre Arlais

-> danah boyd, March 21, 2006, "Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?" http://www.danah.org/papers... : ) - Pierre Arlais

Our goal with The Drone is to document the present moment, and to make the most of the immediate exchange of information that characterises our era. Also, we don’t see the world as a place filled with momentous ideals. For us, progress evolves collectively through the acts of small groups who work and play at the edge of the big picture. The result:Drone puts independent discourse under the centre spotlight as today’s new model of reference. - Pierre Arlais

The advent of tagging and folksonomies for organizing shared ressources on the social Web brought promising opportunities to help communities of users capture their knowledge. However, the lack of semantics, or the spelling variations between tags lowers the potentials for browsing and exploring these data. To overcome these limitations, we propose exploiting the interactions between the users and the systems to validate or correct semantic analysis automatically applied to the tags. This process is based upon our model of the assistance of folksonomies enrichment which supports conflictual points of view. Several strategies can then be applied to propose novel browsing facilities to users. - Pierre Arlais

While It’s Hot Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditional aggregators, Fever works better the more feeds you follow. No Pressure By default Fever hides unread counts to spare you unsavory unread item guilt but sometimes you want to keep an eye on those climbing numbers. Control unread counts on a global, group or feed level. - Pierre Arlais

SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web - Pierre Arlais

The SIOC initiative (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) aims to enable the integration of online community information. SIOC provides a Semantic Web ontology for representing rich data from the Social Web in RDF. It has recently achieved significant adoption through its usage in a variety of commercial and open-source software applications, and is commonly used in conjunction with the FOAF vocabulary for expressing personal profile and social networking information. - Pierre Arlais

A New Way to Enjoy Entertainment on your TV & PC Online TV, movies, music, and photos - made easy for couch potatoes - Pierre Arlais

Creation on the Fly Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more - Pierre Arlais

Worth1000 is the most creative contest community on the web. Every day we run a few different types of creative contests (photo-editing, photography, illustration and more) in different specialized arenas. Anybody can enter, vote and comment. - Pierre Arlais

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. - Pierre Arlais