All the articles of October, 2006

Oct 22, 2006 En sommeil pour 3 semaines…
Enfin, c’est les vacances!!! Activité plus que réduite sur le blog pendant 3 semaines. Je laisse les commentaires ouverts (je ne suis pas encore trop pollué par le spam); je posterai peut-être quelques messages ou photos depuis mon lieu de villégiature… Ah oui, je ne vous ai pas dit: cette année, destination Argentine! Si j’arrive [...]
Oct 22, 2006 Review of TheFind
TheFind is a new actor in a crowded market, but they claim to reinvent shopping search. When I heard of TheFind a few months ago (by reading TechCrunch), I was really impatient to discover this new service: it’s always good to see innovative challengers to established players. So I was really happy to see the [...]
Oct 20, 2006 New homepage for Kelkoo UK
Kelkoo UK has just rolled out a new homepage. The list of categories is now in a left column, to allow pushing more content on the home: An ajaxified “News” area at the top A list of recommendations A list of popular products on popular categories Tag clouds to highlight top searches, top brands, top [...]
Oct 19, 2006 TheFind.com Beta is launched
I’ve just received a mail to indicate TheFind.com Beta is now live: We are excited to invite you to the beta release of our new shopping search engine, TheFind.com! We are building an entirely new shopping search experience – one that is comprehensive, unbiased, relevant and efficient – visit us at http://www.thefind.com to check us [...]
Oct 16, 2006 How could microformats help the shopping ecosystem? (part1)
Lately, I became interested in microformats and how they could help the shopping ecosystem. It came first from discussions with Seb, one of my friends at Yahoo!. Then I started digging the official microformats.org website. Microformats are an easy way to build a semantic web, by defining simple formats built upon HTML and XHTML languages. [...]
Oct 10, 2006 Yahoo! didn’t get YouTube, but they’ve got the Time Capsule
Buying YouTube is soooo material, get a higher ambition like Yahoo! and launch the Time Capsule project. In their own words: Do you Yahoo!? This is where you can share a piece of your world with the global online community, and be part of history in the making. This time capsule is the first-ever collection [...]
Oct 08, 2006 Les moteurs de shopping se mettent aux blogs
Signe des temps: depuis quelques mois, chaque moteur de shopping met en place un blog pour avoir une communication plus directe / humaine / simple / décalée… vers ses utilisateurs. Voici un panorama non exhaustif de cette tendance. Yahoo! Lancé en juin dernier, le blog de Yahoo! Shopping US présente des nouveaux produits (certains originaux, [...]
Oct 04, 2006 Windows Live Product Upload
LiveSide a publié aujourd’hui un article sur Windows Live Product Upload, un futur extranet pour les marchands qui souhaitent uploader leurs listings de produits sur Windows Live Product Search: Windows Live Product Upload allows internet based retailers/sellers to add catalogs of their available products to the Live Product Search database. Currently, as it stands, Live [...]
Oct 01, 2006 Sorties matinales à Chamrousse - [20 photos]
Nous avons pris l'habitude, avec des amis au travail, de faire des sorties matinales en ski de randonnée (ou raquettes / surf) à Chamrousse. Voici les meilleures photos de la saison 2005-2006.
Oct 01, 2006 Ballade en Matheysine: la Peyrouse - [13 photos]
Une petite ballade dans le massif de la Matheysine. Au dessus de Notre-Dame-de-Vaux, à partir du Refuge de l'As, un ensemble de collines permet de dominer le Vercors et les lacs autour de Laffrey.