This was my non-technical blog about being an independent Internet entrepreneur in the 21st century.
Personal productivity, mobility, business, marketing, web tools and some more…
I am “retired” now ;)
Social media killed blogs. Yet there are still, and maybe even new compelling reasons to maintain a blog or personal website in 2024 !...
If you search on the Mac App Store, you will find dozens of Markdown note taking apps with a markdown pane on the left and a preview / reading pane on the right. Many of them also feature a sidebar on the left where you can "conveniently" browse your…...
I travelled from Paris to Amsterdam this week... (for a business conference). I took the Thalys speed train. They offer WiFi on board... supposedly via satellite with fallback to multilink 3G when necessary. The reality is it works only 50% of the time…...
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…...
I was at a conference in Amsterdam last week and although we don't have the iPads in Europe yey, I had the opportunity to play for 15 minutes with an iPad brought by a US attendee. My first impression was: it's really nicely designed, extremely intuiti…...
Do you remember the days where you'd carefully read through everything your RSS aggregator collected for you? Do you still do that? Do you even open your RSS aggregator? Do you even use one? Chances are you're using twitter by now. 140 characters max…...
I just finished reading "the dip" by Seth Godin. I actually didn't really know what the book was about and I basically picked it up just because it was less than $10 and because I loved previous books by Seth Godin (no doubt he's one of the greatest…...
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…...
Interestingly enough I just stumbled upon an old IRC conversation where I was asking some PR questions to Robin "Roblimo" Mille, editor of NewsForge. It's pretty old (the file date says April 2004), but I thought it was still interesting... fplanque:…...
"Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy." - Lord John Browne Chairman of BP