Tag Archives: Software and Tools

My Twitter Usage Answers

Posted on 02.05.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Voici les réponses que j’ai données à danah boyd (chercheuse dans le domaine des espaces numériques) suite au questionnaire sur Twitter qu’elle a envoyé à ses “Twitter-friends”. Le questionnaire est ouvert à tous si vous désirez lui envoyer vos réponses … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life | Tagged Cyberspace, danahboyd, Online Culture, presence, privacy, Psychology / Sociology, questionnaire, questions, Research, Software and Tools, Theories, twitter, usage | 1 Comment

MindMeister: Google Docs-Style Mind Mapping

Posted on 19.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]MindMeister est un logiciel de mind-mapping (comme FreeMind ou Mind Manager) en ligne, à la Google Docs. J’ai des invitations si vous désirez essayer. On peut collaborer sur des documents à plusieurs et les publier sur le web.[en]A quickie before … Continue reading →

Tagged freemind, google, googledocs, mindmanager, mindmapping, mindmaps, mindmeister, review, service, software, Software and Tools | 9 Comments

Twitter, c’est quoi? Explications…

Posted on 15.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]This post is an explanation (“for dummies”) of what Twitter is and what the point of such a service is. I explain that one important and often overlooked aspect of building relationships is all these little mundane snippets of life … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Tools | Tagged amitié, and Linkage, chat, comments, communication, contact, Essay-Like, internet, intimité, Kit du blogueur, mobile, msn, Online Culture, portable, Psychology / Sociology, quotidien, relations, Reviews, sms, Social Software, Software and Tools, Technology, téléphone, twitter, vie, Website Reviews | 48 Comments

Not All Switzerland Speaks German, Dammit!

Posted on 04.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

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

My Heritage Celebrity Collage and Tumblr

Posted on 26.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]My Heritage Celebrity Collage prend une de vos photos et cherche à quelles célébrités vous ressemblez. Tumblr est un endroit où bloguer, mais style “degré zéro du blog”.[en]While I was waiting for Dreamhost to give me back CTTS so that … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged blogging, celebrity, celebritycollage, facerecognition, myheritage, Software and Tools, tumblelog, tumblr | 4 Comments

English Only: Barrier to Adoption

Posted on 24.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Dans ce billet à l’attention des anglophones, j’insiste sur le fait que l’inexistance d’une version en français d’un produit va entraver son adoption ici. Même si les gens parlent anglais (un peu, beaucoup) cela rajoute une difficulté supplémentaire. Si Skype, … Continue reading →

Posted in Language Geekiness, My corner of the world, Thinking, Wordpress | Tagged adoption, application, Citations, dotclear, english, Essay-Like, facebook, flickr, francophone, french, icq, internet, language, languagebarrier, Languages / Linguistics, livemessenger, msn, myspace, online, openweb, pompagenet, skyblog, skype, Social Software, Software and Tools, suisse romande, Theories, translation, usability, web2.0, webstandards, Wordpress | 14 Comments

Please Make Holes in My Buckets!

Posted on 13.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Tour d’horizon de mes différents “profils” à droite et a gauche dans le paysage des outils sociaux (social tools). Il manque de la communication entre ces différents services, et mon identité en ligne s’en trouve fragmentée et lourde à gérer. … Continue reading →

Posted in Connected Life, Social Media and the Web | Tagged Animals, Announcements, atom, Blogger musings, blogging, Cinema / Films, contacts, dailymotion, del.icio.us, Events, exchange, facebook, feeds, flickr, friends, Geek / Technical, gmail, internet, Internet / Computers, Kit du blogueur, lastfm, linkedin, microformats, myspace, network, Online Culture, openbc, openid, orkut, profile, publishing, rss, sharing, Social Software, socialapplications, socialnetworking, socialtools, Software and Tools, suprglu, Temporary, Thinking, twitter, wordpress.com, xing, youtube | 22 Comments

Stowe Boyd: Building Social Applications

Posted on 07.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

Warning: these are my notes of Stowe‘s workshop at LIFT, meaning my understanding and interpretation of what he said. They might not reflect accurately what Stowe told us, and might even be outright wrong in some places. Let me know … Continue reading →

Posted in Live Blogging, My corner of the world, Social Media and the Web | Tagged basecamp, blinksale, Cyberspace, Events, flickr, geneva, groupings, internet, itunes, lastfm, lift07, markets, notes, ousidein, social, Social Software, socialapplications, socialsoftware, Software and Tools, stoweboyd, suisse romande, swarmth, switzerland, tags, thisnext, upcoming, workshop, xing | 13 Comments

Flock Sync Issue Solved!

Posted on 30.12.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Problème de synchro de bookmarks avec Flock réglé![en]Yay! The really exasperating behavior Flock was putting up by refusing to sync my favorites unless I restarted the browser has now come to an end. It seems that a file named flock_fq_default_in.rdf … Continue reading →

Tagged bookmarks, corrupt, favorites, favourites, file, flock, problem, Software and Tools, solution, solved, sync, synchronisation | 4 Comments

You Should Twitter

Posted on 12.12.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]A découvrir absolument, Twitter, un service au croisement du moblogging et de la messagerie instantanée. Inscrivez-vous et essayez! Je vois du potentiel ici pour les adolescents, dans le sens où ça permet de s’envoyer des SMS sans devoir donner à … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged community, connect, im, Kit du blogueur, phone, security, sms, Software and Tools, technorati, twitter | 19 Comments