[Via vowe]

It seems that Bill Gates opened his first blog ;-)

And guess where? On Blogger :-) I’m wondering how long this one will stay open….

You perhaps remarked that I posted less than before my holidays. I’m re-designing completely my website and this takes a little time, as you can imagine ;-) I invested some time in finding a better usability and look&feel;, also coherent with my weblog.

The new version will be based on the following template (usage of css):

A Google Dance happened yesterday (June 23). Two consequences:

I realized that my recent post concerning Sauce Reader was my hundredth article since the opening of my blog on March 1st, 2004. My first post on March 1, 2004 was about IT outsourcing.

Since some days, I’m watching and listenning to a great DVD-live called Lovers live from Sade. This live performance was filmed in September 2001 in California. The DVD contains 22 songs (!), about 2 hours of very sweet, sexy and groovy music! And the band is really excellent!

I already published two articles about Sauce Reader on Mai 24 and Mai 14. Synop released on last Friday a new version:

Sauce Reader v1.5 (beta)

I’m using intensively Sauce Reader since more than a month and I would like to summarize my impression:

What’s Cool

Room for improvement

Conclusion

All in all, I think that Sauce Reader is the best aggregator at this moment. The last developments of this tool (three releases now) give me a very convincing impression of the Synop’s capability and user orientation.

PS: Laurent also posted some comments about this new release.

[Adapted and via Loic - in French]

I’m 32 years old and sometimes, I already feel that I’m getting older. Some ways to find out if it is the case for yourself (it just works if you are more or less in the same age as I):

So, let’s just think about the fact that THESE guys will enter the University this year and that THEY are young now.

Other symptoms that you/we are getting older:

Keep cool, the only “good news” is that we are ALL getting older, even the young students who are reading this blog and are now laughing ;-)

Let’s have a look at this cool geographical representation (small Quicktime movie) of the relative number of queries to the Google’s web site. Extract of the Google’s explanation:

Coolest stop on the tour – A three-dimensional rotating image of the world on permanent display on a large flat panel monitor in the office of the engineer who created it. What makes it special is the toggle switch that allows you to view points of light representing real time searches rising from the surface of the globe toward space, color coded by language. Toggle and you can see traffic patterns for the entire Internet. Worth a trip to the second floor.

You can test here how the spiders see your web site:

Spider simulator

So, let me summarize 10 days offline ;-)