Canada for Obama Night on November 4th at the OPUS lounge
24,octobre 2008
I do not usually speak politics on this blog. But, listening to a unplugged guitar song online at the Canada for Obama music Channel on this website inspired me: canadaforobama.ca i just felt like an inspired Canadian! Â There is some hip hop as well. Â All these songs were inspired by the Obama side of the campaign. The Milagro Group is organizing this election night party on November 4th, 2008 at OPUS.
What is Innovation in Web 2.0 for Six Apart? Stéphane Delbecque answers that question
12,octobre 2008
The Montreal Marketing Association First Conference that took place on October 8, 2008 on Innovation in Web 2.0 showcased four speakers prolific in their respective area of specialization. Hugh McGuire from Librivox broke the ice and presented the audio books community, then Stéphane Delbecque from Six Apart spoke about mobile and blogging technologies, Robyn Tippins from the Yahoo! Developer Network spoke about the application ecosystem and the openness around Yahoo! and the broad reach of the developer Network. Austin Hill  presented his innovative new reality-based startup Akoha.
Attendees feedback seem to all go in the same direction: ”That conference really was interesting, with diverse content and perspectives”. Whether the type of innovation that was forcasted was useful to certain attendees or not, all depends on the business they are in. Some attendees come from a more traditional enterprise background and some from 2.0 firms.
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Stéphane Delbecque gracefully presented the type of Innovation that is put forward at Six Apart: ”Openness and Mobility”.
In his own words:
Web 2.0 is a deep change in the way internet users interact with each others, services, content and media. For the first time, people have the ability to express themselves and get their voice heard. This revolution resulted in acceleration in innovation, gave tools to anyone who’d want to build something and opened new opportunities for companies that would embrace it. For two guys and a dog in a garage, as well as companies such as Six Apart, innovation in Web 2.0 enlightened a strong need for openness (i.e. with OpenID and APIs) and took the form of a new vehicle, the mobile phone, which is the perfect tool for creating, consulting and sharing with friends, family and online services.
Photography as Art
10,mai 2008
Mise en ligne par Tomitheos
90 secondes.
Tout ce qu’il faut pour capturer l’instant...
L’instant après lequel on court tous.
Depuis ce matin, Flickr s’est ouvert à 90 secondes de vidéo. Un groupe d’exclusifs de bêta testeurs ont pu depuis deux semaines s’adonner à coeur joie, donner des commentaires, des recommandations, tester la vidéo de fond en comble pour finalement pondre cette nouvelle fonctionnalité, qui devrait bien plaire à plusieurs. Des semaines de pur plaisir, en catimini.
Aux vidéos authentiques, vrais, touchants. Aux clins d’oeil que l’on se fait à soi-même ou à son petit groupe de fidèles et d’amis.
Voici une Vidéo humoristique de l’équipe au Quartier Général de Flickr..
Voici les fonctionnalités à venir - en bref:
- L’upload est réservé aux membres Flickr Pro uniquement. Aux personnes qui uploadent des vidéos sur leur caméra et qui veulent que soit conservé cet aspect unique, personnel et intime de cette vidéo.
- La possibilité de partager ces vidéos sur des blogs, ou l’envoi à des amis.
- Capacité de rendre ces vidéos privées ou publiques.
- Des tags et du geotagging.
- Des droits de license Creativecommons.org
- des APIs!
- 90 secondes et 150 Mo.
- Visualisation sur écran géant
- Un service en 8 langues.
Wow - I’m looking forward to playing with this. The 90 second limit on the videos seems like a problem at first, but it may actually force people to be creative. It makes me think of how the new iMovie software works - it encourages you to work with clips of video, and I find myself making short movie clips along with photos to tell a story that is much more interesting than the longer videos. Also - I wonder if the new Flickr video will allow you to embed them in your blog easily like YouTube does
















