All the articles of May, 2009

PR: Kayak on the Semantic Web – http://bit.ly/9GYp0 – prob: XML feeds and API are not enough to build the semantic web…. Buzzword? # Spotted new Shopping.com SRP with LREC on surprising top left position – http://bit.ly/3Aa3A # http://is.gd/IeXB – Screenshots of shopping-related features from upcoming Bing, new Microsoft's search engine # RT @Econsultancy: As [...]

Sunny and very hot day to go and see the the three lakes below the Grande Valloire peek: Lac Noir, Lac Blanc and Lac de la Folle. A wonderful walk: almost alone during the full [...]

RT @Econsultancy: Q&A: Kelkoo’s UK MD Bruce Fair http://bit.ly/ueI8p # http://bit.ly/jaOYi – “Google Microformats Will Have Large Impact On Online Retail — Not All Good” – inspired article. # http://bit.ly/VDRrG Nielsen: Wind.Live.Cash was 1 of only 2 Top Ten Shopping Search Providers to grow their audience from Apr08 to Apr09 # RT @ShopzillaUK: Wow! @BizrateUK [...]

From Wikipedia: Vézelay's hilltop location has made it an obvious site for a town since ancient times. According to legend, not long before the end of the first millennium a monk named Baudillon brought relics [...]

For my RSS readers (actually, I have more RSS readers than spontaneous ones on an average day :) ), you may want to click on one of those links to see (and appreciate, I hope) my new blog design. This new design is still based on the Hemingway WordPress theme, but I have taken more [...]

RT @nmkforum: Comparatively Speaking: Exclusive Interview with Kelkoo http://tinyurl.com/qon82d # http://bit.ly/vFVfZ – Shopping.com introduces Tiered CPC Pricing. I.e: Products priced under $25 ($.1 CPC), $25 to $50 ($.2 CPC)… # http://bit.ly/vFVfZ – Shopping.com will no longer charge US based merchants for clicks coming from outside the US or Canada. # Pets become popular on shopping [...]

At Google Searchology 2009 event, Google announced “Rich Snippets”, an initiative to leverage the benefits of structured data using microformats and RDFa (yes, very close initiative to Yahoo! SearchMonkey launched in H1’08). As explained on the Google Webmaster Tools blog: Google helps users find your page by showing them a small sample of that content — the “snippet.” We [...]

We spent only one full-day in Tongariro National Park. Unfortunately, the weather was not really good; sure the photos show some blue sky, but the weather changed several times during the day, from cloudy and [...]

RT @TwitalyzerBRAND: According to @Twitalyzer, KELKOO has highly passionate brand advocates in Twitter. See why at http://bit.ly/E422W #

November, 30th - Flight from Queenstown to Auckland International Airport; then shuttle to go to Central Auckland. This is Christmas party in the streets!!! Vol intérieur de Queenstown à l'aéroport international d'Auckland; de là, nous prenons [...]

November 15th - We drove from Mount Maunganui to Rotorua, and arrived at Rotorua in the late afternoon. Enough time to test (and enjoy) the Polynesian Spa at Rotorua. Après avoir conduit depuis Mount Maunganui, nous [...]

November, 13th - Landing off at Auckland International Airport, after a 36 hours trip from France. We had hired a car for our 3-weeks trip, and then for our first day in New Zealand drove [...]

A one-day snowshoeing day, crossing the Plateau d'Emparis, from the Chazelet village to the village of Besse. Quite a long hike (roughly 11 hours walking) but amazing landscapes, from the view on La Meije and Le [...]