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Archives for: September 2006

09/30/06

English (US) How Apple got green overnight...

Permalink 05:47:34 am, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: IT business, Environment
At Apple's last special event, after introducing the new iPods, Steve Jobs added this: "We've got some new packagings for the new nano as well. And it's 52% less volume. This turns out to be an environmentally great thing. Because it dramatically redu… more »

09/28/06

English (US) What the google.be case is really about

Permalink 08:38:53 am, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Web media
Google.be 28-sept-06 Everybody's been saying lots of things about the Google.be case, especially that the Belgian newspapers should have used robots.txt to tell Google what not to index. And that the fact they did not use robots.txt clearly show all t… more »
Tags: google, seo, www

09/27/06

English (US) Slashdotted! (but not dugg...)

Permalink 04:06:58 am, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Geek!, Blog media
Unique IPs / 5 minute intervals My post on iPod car integration got slashdotted last night. That really caught me off guard! It is pretty incredible how fast the hordes of new visitors arrived. I only noticed about 1 hour later that the server had… more »

09/25/06

English (US) iPod car integration: not quite!

Permalink 06:54:57 pm, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Mobile & wireless, Podcast media, Apple
On the last Apple special event, Steve Jobs was almost bragging about the fact that 70% of new cars sold in the US this year had (optional!) iPod "integration" available... Obviously, he didn't talk about the rest of the world. But most of all, what… more »