Lancés sans réel succès sur le marché du numérique il y a quelques années, les e-Books (ou « livres électroniques », désignant à la fois un livre physique numérisé ainsi que le périphérique permettant de lire ce fichier) ont considérablement évolué et proposent aujourd’hui des offres de plus en plus intéressantes.
- Denis Balencourt
Now that I think of it, I think I wore these while in labor with Alton, so it would be at least 4 years. I have a ton of socks like this, but rarely show them in public since I'm over the age of 10. LOL What sold me on these was the frog on the big toe and flowers on the rest of them; Instant Pedicure!
- Anika
cute. i have some with music notes that say "toe jam" on them hehe, but they are still at home. come to think of it....i dont think i brought any to school with me =[
- Marissa
Most of mine have frogs on them.I have a couple of pirate themed ones and one that's either Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day (never worn).
- Anika
I had these toe socks. My mom made me wear these to school, each toe was a different color of the rainbow and them cruel kids heckled me all the way home. It was a terrible moment in the life of Jeunelle. I never want to go back there ever again :(
- Jeunelle Foster
Oh, that's horrible. When I was a kid *everyone* had those multi-colored toe socks and they were rainbow striped on up. I once even made the mistake of going roller skating in them, thinking I'd look cute in my satin short and matching jacket.
- Anika
Whoever made these toe socks should be shot by firing squad. We suffered tremendous physical and psychological abuse for wearing these so called fashionable socks. :) Hold on let me see if I can post you a photo of those same socks. Nah forget it, it's black and white, you won't see the colors.
- Jeunelle Foster
I didn't suffer! Only when skating. Otherwise, I love(d) my toe socks!
- Anika
Looking at this pic, even though the socks make my feet look like rectangles, it also makes it look like my feet are smaller than a size 12, so that's a bonus.
- Anika
Learned the hard way that sleeping in these socks is not a good idea.
- Anika
from fftogo
"The Internet is not about technology; it's about communication. The Internet connects people who have shared interests, ideas and needs, regardless of geography." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
I like it, but I think it doesn't go far enough. The telephone allows you to communicate. But when you hang up the phone the call is gone. The internet has persistent objects that can be manipulated, so it is also about cooperation and collaboration.
- Neil Kandalgaonkar
Technology sure makes that communication much easier, though. Long live Friendfeed!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I always thought the Internet was for porn. At least that's what I learned one year at SXSW.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you still owe us (me and Joge) $5000, btw ;-)
- directeur
I think porn falls under the connecting people with shared interests and needs. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Hmmm -- I think saying the" internet is not about technology, it's about the communication" is like saying driving is not about the car, it's about the journey. I like John Dupuis' way of putting it -- the communication part was an emergent property -- Michael Neilson has interesting things to say on this topic, too, but I've gotta dash so I'll link later.
- Mickey Schafer
YAY, I love the internet. Couldn't agree more. GLOBAL unfettered communication amongst all peoples, socio-economic class, philosophy, etc. is what it's all about; whereas, the technology is there to support the communication layer. THAT is very important in the DESIGN of Information Systems.
- Susan Beebe
The following (wild) question just dawned on me: If in 1440—the approx. year of Gutenberg's press—a global electronic network had magically emerged instead, A) What purpose would the power structure at the time deem for it, and B) How would it actually be used within the first few decades? Hundred years?
- Micah Wittman
Neil: different communication formats have varying values for similar properties, such as bandwidth, delay, and rate of decay
- Mike Chelen
Neil: Good point about persistence, except that Twitter has objects called tweets that last only about 7 days ;)
- Alex Schleber
Alex: one compensating strength is that posts are publicly web accessible, allowing them to be independently mirrored
- Mike Chelen
High communication: words. Medium communication: pictures. Low communication: grunt, poke.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Internet = TV + Radio + Books + Newspapers + Magazines + Telephone + Soapbox + [add your medium] = Media melting pot
- Ciro
Actually, the Internet may be about the incarnation of cosmic consciousness, and may not be primarily about anthropocentric intraspecies communication. I only half jest -- sometimes species are only vehicles that don't necessarily understand their function in the big picture, or what they are birthing. With the Internet, one senses something trying to pull itself together that is bigger than human.
- Sean McBride
let's say it again: it's. com. mu. ni. ca. tion. :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
+1 Mike Chelen; to Ciro, Alberto -- conflating function, social value, and technology diminishes the ability to understand what the "internet" is/does/could be, etc. The internet is not portable; certain technological devices are. The infrastructure that supports portability is inconsistent; radio rarely is. It's very difficult to "listen" to books using the internet; the internet is...
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- Mickey Schafer
I agree with you 100% - The connections made here can't be made anywhere else! The transparency and accessibility of people, good people, is prevalent!
- Angels In Action
I didn't read all the comments above, but I don't think it's just communication. It's also about knowledge, data, availability of knowledge and data. creativity, etc... I'm afraid with this situation of lots of social networks people are a bit too preoccupied by the community-factor. Internet is more than that. Please don't forget that.
- Ton Zijp
To Mickey: 1. "The Internet is not portable; certain technological devices are." splitting hair...Give me the Internet without the "technological devices" as you call them. 2. "The infrastructure is inconsistent..." Video is video, audio is audio...otherwise the TV is also inconsistent and so is the radio and books, I digress on this one. 3. " And I believe it is actually important to...
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- Ciro
Ton, I agree! Ciro -- As someone who teaches undergrads who have to use technology and the net, I can't afford to be blithe about "they can if they want to". One of my interests is the relationship between discourse and behavior, so for kicks, I conducted a survey last year to get a feel for how students related to tech developmentally. One overwhelming result was that sometime during...
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- Mickey Schafer
I don't agree. Technology IS COMMUNICATION. Please consider W.J. Ong's Orality & Literacy or Pierre Levy's essays. Our literacy is still evolving and that's possible just because we can write (and communicate) with different technologies. So... Nice quote indeed, but wrong.
- Matteo Balocco
Bruce: language, art, and gestures are all forms of communication technology, each of which can be used to greater or lesser effect
- Mike Chelen
Internet is technology, great and simple technologies which work well and so you can focus on communications stuff
- Luca Zappa
Mickey: internet access may not yet be a universal commodity like paper, yet this property can shift rapidly in degree, redefining its qualities. regarding user expectations, to some extent this may be addressed through improved software design, for example google docs automatically save every few seconds
- Mike Chelen
Matteo: is that different from saying that all communication is a form of technology?
- Mike Chelen
Mike, I'm afraid it is different. While communication is a natural competence shared by all the living beings, technology is just an optional layer for just a niche of them. So we may say that all the technologies carry some informations (and we must consider them communication) but certainly not all communication is a form of technology.
- Matteo Balocco
However we agree that this is nothing more than an academic discussion. The quote by Taylor is still really good for some slideshows. :)
- Matteo Balocco
Mickey, thanks for your feedback. I don't disagree with any of your latest observations regarding the importance of keeping machine (medium) and internet (content) separate and the dangers of not doing so...My point was simply directed at the idea that in the context of pure content utilization, the hardware such as the cables (or airwaves) as transport media and content presentation...
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- Ciro
Dans cette intéressante série de billets, l'économiste Christophe Cariou analyse notre besoin de distinguer les différentes couches urbaines, c'est-à-dire de distinguer et typologiser les traces que nous laissons avec nos mobiles. A la suite d'Harvey Miller, il recommande de distinguer activités fixes (activités quotidiennes) et flexibles (qui se réfèrent aux sorties autres que quotidiennes). Comme le soulignait l'étude de Barabasi sur la mobilité, nos déplacements ont une régularité spatiale et temporelle très élevée. Dans la seconde partie - http://www.everydatalab.com/2009... - que se sont nos activités fixes qui génèrent le plus de traces et que l'intensité de communication d'un quartier dépend aussi de ses spécificités...
- Hubert Guillaud
That frustration is what led me to found AdMob a few years ago while I was in grad school. Over the years I've been fortunate enough to gather a tremendously talented group of employees. Together we've been a part of helping to create a healthy and vibrant environment where developers and publishers, small and large, can both promote their services as well as benefit from the attention and usage their products attract. In our early days we were focused primarily on the mobile web, and gained immense satisfaction from each new business that our service made possible within the mobile browser.
- Jeff Jarvis
Ce blog se propose de passer au crible les propos des hommes et femmes politiques, chefs d’entreprise, syndicalistes, éditorialistes pour y démêler le vrai du faux. Et de traquer citations tronquées, promesses non tenues, chiffres inexacts, mauvaise foi évidente ou utilisation abusive de données. Chaque note du blog évolue au fil des informations recueillies ensemble “Les décodeurs” est un blog collaboratif animé par Nabil Wakim, journaliste au Monde.fr. Vous pouvez proposer des citations à vérifier par mail à l’adresse lesdecodeurs@gmail.com ou sur le compte Twitter des décodeurs, je commencerai l’enquête, avec votre aide, pour vérifier la véracité des propos.
- Damien Van Achter
When your blog starts growing and gets popular, you have to take care of security risks and issues. Most of bloggers and web masters fail to recognize the importance of securing their blog. Hackers can do lots of things after breaking in, they can attack your site viewers with Trojan viruses to steal information from their computers and if it’s going to happen Google will block your site with a message on it i.e “This site may harm your computer”. But you don’t have to worry about it if you are using Wordpress, as there are lots of plugins to help you out.
- Denis Balencourt
une idée pour @jeanyves et son think tank horizontal
- Francois Lamotte
c'est clair ! Ca me fait un peu penser à l'exemple que prend Jeff Jarvis avec la bagnole idéale telle que Google la construirait ...
- Damien Van Achter
Il y a un autre exemple de voiture opensource: SSM
- Jean-Yves Huwart
400 ingénieurs qui collaborent à distance pour développer un SUV électrique. J'en parle dans mon livre qui sort le 16 novembre ;-) => Wallonie 2.0
- Jean-Yves Huwart
Je suis le seul a trouver le resultat plutot moche?
- lelapin
@Jean-Yves. Il est dispo quelque part ton bouquin ? @Lelapin: "foulesourcé" en veut pas dire "beautyfoule" :-)
- Damien Van Achter
@lelapin comme c en commonsource d'autres designers proposeront d'autres carrosseries. ici c qd meme une voiture de rallye ou de course sur terrain boueux.
- Francois Lamotte
Idea for a useful webapp: A tool for doing web page mockups that's better than Photoshop because things actually look right (because it's rendered by the browser). It doesn't need to generate good html, so absolute positioning, etc is ok.
Totally brilliant idea. I write my own bad html mockups in a text editor or whatever IDE I'm playing with at the time, but a tool to ease this process would mean I could get on to abandoning the half-finished project much sooner than usual. :-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Please god no, don't create another "doesn't need to generate good html" code generator. srsly
- Jason Wehmhoener
Well, as for the mockups, there is really great Firefox extension called Pencil. You should try it.
- Mladen Srdić
using Cappuccino, an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser?
- huixing
Paul, have you checked out Axure http://www.axure.com/? I've typically used Visio or resorted to whiteboards/paper as they are easier to edit.
- Jauder Ho
Jason, I would be fine with it not generating html at all. As for Balsamiq and some of the others, the idea is actually that it would look more like the final product instead of less. Photoshop gets fonts wrong and stuff because it isn't a web browser, and yet people still keep using it, so it seems that it must have some advantage over the other tools.
- Paul Buchheit
Photoshop has two major advantages, multiple uses and precision. Photoshop can be used for more than just web mockups. One person can achieve multiple goals with Photoshop while a mockup tool just makes mockups. The second advantage is the mockups look great in presentations because the author has complete control. Photoshop mockups aren't real they're hyper-real.
- Kevin D. White
Depends whether your goal is to sketch and idea or create a final design. For the latter, you really do want it to be pixel perfect. For the former, you want a "wireframe" or whatever the cool kids call it these days.
- ⓞnor
What ⓞnor said. For "wireframes" a whiteboard is fine, but eventually you want pixel-perfect designs.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul have you tried Fireworks, that's what our designers use.
- Michael
http://www.balsamiq.com I got this link from Cooper U boards a while back, and a lot of my co-workers have found it very useful. While it's not pixel perfect, it allows for really quick mock ups with the idea that the design of the end product will be done by actual designers.
- Sam Ee
I've been looking for something like this for years. Balsamiq is definitely a good start, but I feel like there's not quite enough depth yet. Has anyone had luck with stencils like the ones found at http://graffletopia.com/ (for Omni Graffle)?
- Sutee Dee
pixel perfect? The web isn't print. Complete control over the rendering environment is an illusion. Don't submit to it!
- Andy Bakun
Vi is pretty good. You just write some text and point a browser at it.
- Cliff Gerrish
Try wireframing and prototyping apps - I am not sure if output is rendered at browser level though. Protoshare.com, jumpchart.com, productplanner.com
- TrafficBug