Archive for February, 2008

Is “friendfeeding” the next big thing ?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I just started testing Friendsfeed and to me it’s a bit of a mix between Facebook’s best feature, the status update, and Twitter, with the possibility to post quick messages and links.
Except that all you want to share from Flickr, Amazon, Digg or your blog can be consolidated here in one single feed for your friends to subscribe to.

Darwinism for M&Ms ?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

I just read the following on best of craigslist : Survival Of The Fittest (via Reddit) :

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.Taking two candies between my thumb and […]

Useless but fun ?

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Here is a new game played by some French bloggers : generating your own random rock band album cover… via sironimo no blog
Here are the rules :
1. go to wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The article title is the name of your band.
2. go to quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last 4 words of the last quote is your album title.
3. go […]

Prologue : Whatcha up to?

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

The mankind benefactors at Automattic (the people who run wordpress) have issued an updated version of their Twitter-like wordpress theme, Prologue.
Prologue is not just another WP template, it’s a microblogging tool for groups.. Everyone with posting rights can post a little note right from the home page.
I installed it on my wordpress.com account and […]

Is your site slow ?

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

I just installed PHP speedy from Aciddrop.com.
Now 365questions.org loads in less that one second, instead of 6 previously. It’s really impressive.
How does it work ? It seems to compress all the files like css and javascript that burden a site : a wordpress blog with lots of plugins will typically be heavy to […]