I am totally amazed by the ability music majors thinks that they can recover thanks to ringtones! This is crazy, this is absolutely not music but a way to choose a new market segment and increase the revenues. Poor guy, the next step is the napsterization of the mobile devices as explained in the g...
[Research] A tool to analyze user's path in video games
David Lanier developed a tool for Ubisoft's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow Online, which allows to do data-mining of user-testing data in 3DS MAX, i.e. see exactly where players in various test sessions went, where they looked, what they did, etc. and analyse it statistically. This enables quantifi...
[TheWorld] What is a jobzine?
A jobzine is a fanzine (ezine or not) that focuses on a specific job, and tells stories about it...An example: guinea pig zero is a jobzine for people who are used as medical or pharmaceutical research subjects. A jobzine about R&D structures (public or not) might be interesting. ...
[Weird] A trick to have perfect side burn
ProLook is cool trick to get pefect side burn in order to be caught on ! Testimonial: "Prolook™ is great! Most of my friends are using it and are as impressed as I am with the accuracy it gives." ...
[TheWorld] Ask question... get an answer
Very good initiative from the Public Library in Lyon, France: guichetdusavoir.org/GdS/: you can ask a question (in french though) and a librarian will give you a documented answer in 72hours. It is free for people who live in Lyon area. Others can just consult the answers. ...
Plastic Bags Ban!
Plastic bags facts taken from clean up australia: - Plastic bags are manufactured from non-renewable resources - oil and gas. - Just 8.7 checkout bags contain enough embodied petroleum energy to drive a car 1 km - If plastic is not recycled, this embodied energy is lost from the resource chain. - ...
[Research] Moving forward mobile gaming
In the feature, about the potential of using mobile devices and their features (voice communication, location, text communication, contexte sensitivity...) to play: The rich potential space created by these powerful tools is just now being explored by software designers and by the users themselves....
[Research] Observation framework/method to study mobile activities
I already commented it but still...Notes taken on a paper by M. Zouinar, M. Relieu, G. Calvet and P. Salembier about a new methodology to analyze collaborative mobile activities and multimodality. Constraints for designing an observation framework/method to study mobile activities: In order to anal...
[Prospective] The blogroll is indeed YASNS
It is now trendy to compare the blogroll as a social network software! As attested by this post in many to many. I was right few months ago.: Did you ever stop to think that blogrolls are awfully similar to YASNS friends? Apparently Tribe.net did too. They just released TribeCast where bloggers and...
[LifeHack] My virtual desktop
Here is my desktop (on my PC not on my MAC) with:- an instant messenger: IM - a moo client: tkmoo - the current task I am carrying out (writing a document, reading something, drawing...) - a browser: Mozilla - a music player: winamp or iTunes - a mailer ...