Christophe Maximin

• Migrating to Ruby 1.9 - Bruce Williams
• Microsites Still Have Marketers’ Attention - eMarketer
• Why I love working with family people - David Heinemeier Hansson @SvN
• If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature - Matt Linderman @SvN
• The 90/10 rule- why Apple generates fan loyalty - James Kendrick
• Want more customers? Add a new niche - Shannon Cherry

Where all of this is going ? This is madness !.

” twitterfeed was pulling in my pownce feed to twitter, but I set twhirl up to send my tweets to pownce. Just put a cork in the quantum loop. ”

I’ve got to say, I have never been a fan of the whole StartUps-Based-On-VC-Speculation thing.
Although it’s funny to follow how it is going, I really don’t think it is the good example to follow, for a lot of reasons, regarding the future web services of my company.

I just love David Heinemeier Hansson (the creator of Ruby on Rails). speeches, simple and full of truth. Here is the last one, at Startup School.
I think every ‘web entrepreneur’ should watch it.

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”TIP”: If like me, you were using Linux with the Flash 9.0 r4, you will have to update it to the 9.0 r115 version. Type ‘about:plugins’ in your address bar to know your version. The problem I had with the older version: the video was just stopping around 5 minutes after the start.

Update: Here is an alternate version that will always work:

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AH AH MISTER GOOGLE ! SO YOU’RE NOT PERFECT ?!

They are more of a reminder actually, of things I haven’t shared on some webservice. By the way, you can follow my friendfeed’s feed here.
(Shared: Facebook, Blog, Digg, Flickr, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube)

• Obama Talks about Lack of Substance in Debate - (in a funny way)
• Small Business Owners More Pessimistic
• [french] Aimé Césaire est mort aujourd’hui: Que retenir de sa vie ?
• Aime Cesaire, 1913-2008: Remembering the Life and Legacy of the Black Pride Poet and Anti-Colonial Activist

Some of you out there can pat yourselves on the back. You’ve been shouting for years on Web sites, message boards, and blogs that the music industry would one day bow to technology.

That day has most certainly arrived.
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And which retailer is sovereign over music sales? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not Tower Records or Sam Goody (both defunct). It’s not Target, Amazon, or Wal-Mart. Not anymore.

The No. 1 music retailer in the land is Apple’s iTunes, an online store and dealer of digital music.

Read the article : The geeks were right; music labels bow to technology

I miss that TV show soooo much.
This episode script is so accurate. And that saddens me.