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» Kindle et sécurité aérienne font mauvais ménage

Travellers have been warned that their holiday reading plans could be disrupted by airport security measures, following reports that Amazon’s Kindle e-reader can be damaged by X-ray scanners. Multiple complaints from users that their Kindle was ruined by a baggage check prompted claims that radiation permanently affected the device’s electronic ink display. “After my Kindle [...]

Projet week-end: recevoir les notifications d’un système d’alarme DSC par SMS

Chez nous, on a un système d’alarme DSC. Même si plusieurs fournisseurs de télé-surveillance offrent en extra la notification des entrées et sorties par SMS (… et d’autres par des rapports hebdomadaires envoyés par fax), j’ai préféré une solution obscure que je pourrais patenter; une histoire de quelques heures qui augmente drastiquement le plaisir. Envie [...]

Réflexion: l’importance de bien outiller son gestionnaire de communauté

Réflexion: l’importance de bien outiller son gestionnaire de communauté

Le gestionnaire de communauté (à défaut de gérer quoique ce soit) agit comme ambassadeur de la marque. À ce titre, il doit être outillé pour trouver la réponse à toutes les questions des consommateurs. Mais c’est apparemment pas toujours le cas. Parce que oui, les outils d’un gestionnaire de communauté, c’est plus qu’un iPad et [...]

Le RSS se meurt. Mais il était déjà beaucoup, beaucoup malade.

Google Chrome has no RSS reader. It doesn’t even try to render RSS, or even help the user with it in any way. It gives less of a crap than a French man smoking a cigarette in public. Mozilla will deal the final blow that kills RSS off. In Firefox 4.0, there will be no [...]

Work/life balance is a myth.

There is no such thing as work/life balance. By even saying there is such balance, you’re making an internal agreement that work is not a part of a healthy life, and I just don’t buy it. Like you, I put a good chunk of my waking hours against the work I do. I can’t accept [...]

Le bonheur des employés et la responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise

While corporate responsibility is often used in reference to the organization’s interaction with outside communities, it also touches upon how members of the organization are actually treated and valued. How they are treated determines both self-perception and performance within the workplace and is correlated with life happiness in general. The Social Responsibility to Generate Employee [...]

Croissance rapide: Evan Williams ne sera plus PDG de Twitter

In fact, there are 300 people working at Twitter today—compared to about 20 when I took the CEO job two years ago. Back then, people were creating about 1.25 million tweets a day—compared to 90 million today. In those same two years, we grew from 3 million registered users to more than 165 million today. [...]

Compression d’image: WebP, le nouveau format de Google

Most of the common image formats on the web today were established over a decade ago and are based on technology from around that time. Some engineers at Google decided to figure out if there was a way to further compress lossy images like JPEG to make them load faster, while still preserving quality and [...]

Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School

[Mike] Arrington told students that the kind of person who wants to increase his chances of success by getting a masters degree isn’t an entrepreneur; older entrepreneurs have no chance of raising money (so they’re a lost cause); success means building a billion dollar business and making a lot of money—it’s not good enough to [...]

Groupon: viable pour les entrepreneurs?

When discussing Groupon, it’s quite clear: the group buying business model is financially viable. For Groupon. What’s less clear: whether Groupon’s business model is financially viable for businesses. We were bombarded the first weekend after our feature because our feature had come out a month late, and unfortunately coincided with the Kenton Library’s grand opening. [...]