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Cat and Girl: A great comics site

I came across Cat and Girl cartoons via Get Rich Slowly and I found the cartoon below meaningful. New cartoons appear every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Cat and Girl Identificateurs Technorati : cartoon, comics, blog, Fun, Life

Google released a few days ago Google site, which is basically a service designed to create wiki applications for organizations: companies, schools, etc. Google Site is integrated in Google Apps. And when you setup Site, a domain name is required: either an existing one or a new one. Web worker daily suggests that Google Site […]

Open Source Blogging

It seems to be the trend of this new year: Some successful bloggers released copyright on the content published on their blog. 2 examples are:

Leo from Zen Habits: Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content | Zen Habits

Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content | Zen Habits via kwout

Trent from […]

Smashing magazine released a list of 100 Wordpress themes. I might find my future theme in the list. Anyway, the choice of a wordpress theme takes time: Each theme must be tested. Some might be beautiful but also very slow.  We may find the right trade off between  design and performance.

100 Excellent Free […]

I just came accross ScribeFire a Firefox extension that allows to blog when browsing a web Page. This is very convenient. For instance, now i’m browsing the Getting Starting Page while I’m writing this post.

ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging via kwout

Powered by ScribeFire.

Aubade and Pirelli calendars are now classic sexy calendars. The photos from the 2008 editions are available on the web site linked below:

Aubade

Calendrier Aubade 2008 via kwout

 

Pirelli

Calendrier Pirelli 2008 via kwout

Data mining with Facebook

Alec Saunders published an interesting post that describes how to do some quick data mining with Facebook. The starting point is to click on the advertisers link at the bottom of any Facebook page. Follow the steps as described by Alec up to the audience choice. That’s where the data mining can be done. For […]

Summize: A Search Engine for Reviews

Summize is a new service that collect review from Amazon, Yahoo, Blogs, etc and summarize them in a convenient way. The tag line on their home page is:

Summize is a search engine for reviews — including millions of cutting-edge blogger reviews and real-world user reviews.

Here is the summize page for the Archos 504 80 GB:

SendMeRSS: RSS feed by email

The site SendMeRSS offers an interesting way to read RSS feeds. This service sendsby email updates on registered RSS feeds. The service is really simple to use as it doesn’t require any user registration. Only a feed URL and  an email address are required. In a second step the service verify the email address. And […]

The software industry “versatility”

Marc Andreessen highlights in this post regarding Microsoft investment in Facebook that in the software industry, it is possible to say something at the beginning of the month and to act at the end of the month in contradiction with the previous statement:

October 2: Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes that the craze for individual […]