Last two days were a kind of summer-in-spring.
Very hot (34°C today) and some special lights in the garden.
Should change tomorrow…
Home – summer?
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My Google profile
As a lot of people during the last weeks, I have created my Google profile.
What is a Google profile?
A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. It allows you to control how you appear on Google and tell others a bit more about who you are. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. You have control over what others see. Your profile won’t display any private information unless you’ve explicitly added it.
You can also allow people to find you more easily by enabling your profile to be searched by your name. Simply set your existing profile to show your full name publicly.
If you’ve been writing reviews on Google Maps, creating articles on Google Knol, sharing Google Reader items, or adding books to your Google Book Search library, you may already have a profile. See and customize your profile.
Quite easy. Let’s see with the time if it brings something new…
You can also find the profile of Laurent Kempé on Google profile.
Bonifacio 2009 – Part V
Now have a look at these pictures from the Golf of Figari.
Very special with all these rocks, beautiful ocean and sand.
Absolutely fantastic!
LinkedIn vs. Xing
Fast comparison between LinkedIn and Xing.
- November 1, 2003 – 5 1/2 years old
- 7 million members
- 26’000 groups
- 16 languages
- 600’000 paying members
- 240 employees from 22 nations
- May 5, 2003 – 6 years old
- 40 million members, thereof 10 million in Europe and 800’000 in France
- 300’000 user groups
- 4 languages
- 345 employees
My LinkedIn profile (member since March 2004, i.e. more than 5 years)
My Xing profile (member since November 2005).
The Innoveo LinkedIn profile and the Innoveo Xing profile.
Cross-posted on the Innoveo Blog.
Bonifacio 2009 – Part IV
Bavella, the highlight of the Corsican mountain!
For a very good reason : from one side the mountain pass, and on the other side the forest. It summarizes itself the particularities of the island relief, with dramatic rock formation and colours from most delicate red to the darkest grey and all “sprinkled” with giant Laricio pines. The most beautiful panoramas on the Bavella Needles can be seen at the passed called Col de Bavella ( 1218m high ) inside the regional reserve.
Software maintenance
via Judith Hurwitz
Judith is bringing, as usual, interesting feeds for thoughts, this time in the field of software maintenance fees.
[…] As the world slowly moves to cloud computing for economic reasons there will be a major impact on how companies pay for software. Salesforce.com has indeed proven that companies are willing to trust their sales and customer data to a Software as a Service vendor. These customers are also willing to pay per user or per company yearly fees to rent software. Does this mean that they are no longer paying maintance fees? My answer would be no. It is all about accounting and economics. Clearly, Salesforce.com spends a lot of money adding functionality to its application and someone pays for that. So, what part of that monthly or yearly per user fee is allocated to maintaining the application? Who knows? And I am sure that it is not one of those statistics that Salesforce.com or any other Software as a Service or any Platform as a Service vendor is going to publish. Why? Because these companies don’t think of themselves as traditional software companies. They don’t expect that anyone will ever own a copy of their code.
The bottom line is that software will never be good enough to never need maintenance. Software vendors — whether they sell perpetual licenses or Software as a Service– will continue to charge for maintance. The reality is that the concrete idea of the maintenance fee will evolve over time. Customers will pay it but they probably won’t see it on their bills. Nevertheless, the impact on traditional software companies will be dramatic over time and a lot of these companies will have to rethink their strategies. Many software companies have become increasingly dependent on maintenance revenue to keep revenue growing. I think that Marc Benioff has started a conversation that will spark a debate that could have wide ranging implications for the future of not only maintenance but of what we think of as software.
Interesting!
Cross-posted on the Innoveo Blog.
Bonifacio 2009 – Part III
North of Bonifacio, in the Corsica’s mountains, you can find and follow a marvelous river called “Solenzara”, which is also the name of the town where he Solenzara is entering into the sea.
Fantastic views and landscapes all along the river.
Bonifacio 2009 – Part II
I would like to continue our trip report with the presentation of the very nice hotel we were in, A Cheda. Very nice small structure with a lot of charm. All rooms are unique and consist of an elegant mix of modern material and equipment and old stones and wood.
The restaurant is also very interesting. Good quality with a Mediterranean orientation and exciting typical Corsican menus.
The hotel is well positioned outside Bonifacio, but not so far. All around, a marvelous garden with beautiful (old) trees.
On top, a very cool but professional welcome. Nice dedicated people who are delivering good services for this 4* hotel.
Very warm recommendation from the whole family for this very good hotel!
Bonifacio 2009 – Part I
Some days off with the family in Bonifacio (south Corsica, France). Very interesting small town (2’600 inhabitants without the tourists ;-), the southernmost commune of Metropolitan France. The Upper City, actually a very old citadel, is dominating some absolutely fantastic limestone cliffs, sculpted by the ocean.
(As usual, click on the pictures to have an access to bigger formats).
Bonifacio citadel and the limestone cliffs
Cliffs
The citadel seen from the harbor
More later ;-)
On heavy rotation…
Wow. Wow. Wow.
An *absolute masterpiece*, on heavy rotation since some weeks! Surely one of my preferred CD since years!
First, I have to say that I am a total-fan of Leonard Cohen since 15 years. His texts are extremely interesting, a real poet. This, on top of this very particular, original and timeless musical compositions… Just too much :-)
And, on top on top, there is his absolutely fantastic deep voice.
And, on top on top on top, when I have seen that the musical director and bass player of this tour is Roscoe Beck, that was again … just too much. Roscoe Beck is a great musician and bass player I have discovered for years as he was playing with Robben Ford, the well-known blues singer and guitar player. Roscoe is also well-known as one of the best specialist of five-string bass.
Some of the best songs of Leonard Cohen are present on the double-CD: Dance me to the end of love, Bird on the wire, Everybody knows, In my secret life, Suzanne, Hallelujah, I’m your man, Sisters of mercy.
And for me, the best song on the double-CD: If it be your will, sung by the Webb Sisters. So great. So great, I just miss the words to describe the emotional impact of their performance… Something you have to listen to once in your life…