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LeWeb’09: Bloggers, Social Media Club House, Boat Party

[fr]Dans moins d’une semaine, départ direction Paris pour la conférence LeWeb’09! En plus de m’occuper des blogueurs officiels comme l’année dernière, j’ai été invitée à loger dans la Social Media Club House. Nous avons organisé une fête sur une péniche, … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences | Tagged bloggers, boat, cathedral, conference, event, leweb, leweb09, notre-dame, official bloggers, paris, party, paypal, pearltrees, péniche, seine, six/huit, smch, social media club house, superfeedr | 1 Comment

This is an Experiment

[fr]Ceci est une expérience.[en] Similar Posts: An Experiment (Seesmic and The Black Swan) This Is Supposed To Be a Podcast LIFT’07 Social Networking Map Experiment Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit! This is a demonstration Is This Too Much? This … Continue reading

Tagged amazon, Blogger musings, experiment, paypal, tip jar | 2 Comments

Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!

Here we go, yet another misguided attempt at localisation: my MySpace page is now in German. MySpace now joins PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Google in defaulting to German for Swiss people. Switzerland is a multilingual country. The linguistic majority speaks Swiss-German … Continue reading

Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged allemand, amazon, ebay, english, french, german, google, italian, italien, l10n, language, Languages / Linguistics, langue, linguisticminority, localisation, localization, minoritélinguistique, myspace, paypal, romanche, romansh, Software and Tools, suisse, suisse-allemand, suisseromande, swissgerman, switzerland, Venting, Website Reviews, Comments, and Linkage | 45 Comments

Alarm: Orcut, Evil Fake Orkut Clone?

How I thought orCut.com might be a phishing operation to grab orKut.com usernames and passwords. A comment on Google’s irresponsibility in encouraging users to fall for phishing.

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged alarm, alert, alternative, bell, Cyberspace, fake, google, irresponsible, legitimate, link, operation, orcit, orcut, orkat, orkit, orkut, paypal, phishing, referrer, scam, security, URL | 8 Comments

Paypal Scam Nearly Got Me

How I almost got scammed by people masquerading as PayPal. Remember to always type https://paypal.com in your browser, and never to click links!

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged e-mail, email, fake, hoax, information, internet, masquerade, paypal, report, scam, security, site, spoof, tip, verify, website | 16 Comments