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Facebook vs Google on social advertising

I've been explaining this to people over and over again and I reached the point where I just want to point them to a web page to read through before we can talk some more about it :p So here it is, in a nutshell, the whole deal about Google and Faceboo…...

February 3, 2011 · 3 min · François Planque

Flat rate is about to unleash the mobile web

Remember when DSL internet access started to come with unlimited data transfer plans? This is when everyone started using for the web for all kinds of things: this is when people actually started surfing the web! The reason behind that is that flat…...

August 19, 2008 · 2 min · François Planque

The truth about Safari for Windows

Everybody's talking about Apple's release of their Safari web browser for Windows. And everybody's speculating about how Apple needs to convince Windows developers to make their sites iPhone compatible (the iPhone includes Safari) or how Apple wants to…...

June 23, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

What the google.be case is really about

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…...

September 28, 2006 · 9 min · François Planque

Quote of the day

"If your page is just for you, and it's useless and bad, but you like it, that's fine. Keep it at http://localhost. It'll load faster." -Unkown

July 1, 2004 · 1 min · François Planque

Microsoft killing the browser: scary movie...

Sometimes I fear that Microsoft stopping the development of IE 6 is a lot worse than we think... It looks more and more like they have a master plan beyond terminating the free browser program... (we don't care, we have open source browsers, right?)...…...

August 22, 2003 · 3 min · François Planque

When the browser wars began...

Eric Sink has this very interesting piece about how he witnessed the beggining of the browser wars, working at Spyglass (the company that licensed the original IE rendering engine to Miscrosoft). About Spyglass: "We considered ourselves to be the arms…...

August 7, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque

Google & BlogNoise: an advertiser's perspective

Ray Ozzie writes [link gone]: Scoble says [link gone] Google is getting a lot of pressure from its advertisers to push down weblogs, who might lower their search result rankings. This seems counterintuitive to me. By diluting the commercial…...

May 18, 2003 · 1 min · François Planque