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New feature on MyLifeSucksBigTime.com: Tweet This !

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I saw a cool feature on Twitturly that allows visitors to tweet a story quickly and easily from the site itself.

So yesterday evening, I put my amateur dev gloves again and quickly put together a piece of code that allows any visitor on My Life Sucks …. Big Time !!! to tweet a story from an ad-hoc form. Continue reading ‘New feature on MyLifeSucksBigTime.com: Tweet This !’

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Fabrice Grinda: his first company & first funding

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I’m catching up on Fabrice Grinda’s articles, and have been absorbed by two of them.

The first post is about Fabrice’s first company, Princeton International Computers (PIC), that sold high-end computer parts to Europe, benefiting of the price/time difference. Fabrice tells us he learned business through PIC, and that PIC eventually brought him the funds to start his second company, Aucland.

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Yeeha! An Apple Store in Paris!

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Apple Store on 5th AvenueOk this should come out as a little ironic … and sad: we, in France, don’t have any Apple store. There are Apple “counters” or departments in FNACand other super-stores (as in BestBuys in the US), but no Apple Store boutique.

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When I’m grown up, I wanna be Apple !

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Honestly, which other brand can have people stay in line for hours according to a rumor of a potential launch of a product, notĀ even announced ?

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I may know 8.3 million people !

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Received this yesterday. It says:

Sergio just joined Facebook. You are getting notified of this because our “People You May Know” tool discovered you and Sergio both live in New York

Hope I am not getting all New York facebook users the same way… And besides, wow: that’s what I call filtering !! ;-))

Facebook Poeple You May Know - WFT ?

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Craigslist, Wikipedia, all that money wasted …

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Is Craigslist is worth $5 billion ? Based on some analysis by ClickZ, AlleyInsider has proposed an estimated valuation of $5 billionof the company - but more interestingly potential profit of $500M. But Craigslist wants to remain a non-for-profit.

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TechCrunch vs Mashable on Yahoo’s OpenSocial

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Who beats who in this case ? ;-))

TechCrunch vs Mashable on Yahoo+Google+MySpace Open Social

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My tech news digest ! What happened lately …

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March 1st to March 17th, what I missed on Mashable:

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What I missed on Mashable: My Mashable Digest ! (Part 1)

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I ranted yesterday morning about the quantity of news on Mashable and the fact that a digest, weekly or bi-weekly would be so good, and am now catching up my feeds (since mid-end February for minor-news and company launches).

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TechCrunch removed post on Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop

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Here was the original post:


TechCrunch removed post on AllTop from Guy Kawasaki

Don’t know why it’s been removed … maybe because of a rushed judgement ? Just toured the site (AllTop), which “got the news covered”: it aggregates the main titles from various legitimate sources with authority in 40 different sections.

For me, it does the job it promises to do. It’s already more than many others …. ;)

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