rousso's tumblings: Archive

Cool stuff! New Fujifilm X-Pro1 →

I know you know that Fujifilm announced a new auto-focus rangefinder camera with interchangeable lens at CES 2012. Poor man’s Leica M9-P? Definitely! But that’s a good thing! I want one!

Jan 16th

Credit rating agencies go after euro →

In 2004, PM Karamanlis clearly had a choice before he went on discrediting Greece right after assuming office. Clearly he shouldn’t have done that as nothing good came out of it. Nevertheless, the death blow was dealt by PM Papandreou in 2009 while unveiling the catastrophic results of the polices of his predecessor effectively discrediting the country once more. I’m not sure if he...

Jun 14th

On the App Store model

On second thoughts, I don’t like the “App Store” model. I didn’t like it since it started actually, but by now I’ve had it. Here is why: The “App Store” is a Trojan horse. It’s a way of hijacking the web. It’s a man in the middle attack. It’s evil. Who needs it? It is supposed to help apps surface; it’s supposed to foster...

May 23rd

“Ladies & gentlemen, in case you missed it, we landed.”

– KLM pilot, right after touchdown, in Amsterdam.

May 11th

With the recent release of IE9 and FF4, all browsers out there are now very good browsers. It’s too early to tell which one is going to be my favorite. IE9 is sleek and fast. FF4 looks great (for the first time ever). Opera is also very good (although I never felt like switching to Opera). Safari is… well… Apple (it simply works but there is no real need for it). I think FF4 is...

Mar 22nd

Feb 16th

“Just another 4 months after crossing the 100.000 active walls milestone, RSS...”

– Making RSS Graffiti: 200.000 Active Walls & counting

Feb 15th

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Feb 14th

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On Nokia + Microsoft partnership

People don’t buy Nokia phones to get Symbian; they buy them because they are made by Nokia. Nokia has loyal customers. Far more than Apple has. People don’t buy iPhones because they are better; they buy them because they are cool gadgets and make a status statement; (plus they run all the cool stuff). People don’t buy Android phones because they are better either; they buy...

Feb 11th

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Feb 10th

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Found at selfishmemes tumblelog; Sounds Of Stockholm.

Feb 2nd

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Thoughts on liberating comments

Most of the content I’m creating on the web each day is actually comments on other people’s content (or comments). Comments -though not always important- can sometimes have a life of their own and can actually formulate a persons viewpoint on a number of issues. Comments are easier to make than blog posts. They are faster and more intuitive to write. They don’t require you to put...

Feb 2nd

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Oct 15th

“Sometimes, it is more important to have the right problem than the best...”

– Bjarne Stroustrup

Oct 14th

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“RSS Graffiti just passed 100.000 targets!”

– Just 3 months after crossing the 50.000 active targets (Facebook walls) milestone, RSS Graffiti doubles in size again. Today it publishes over 170.000 feeds on the walls of (roughly) 27.000 Profiles, 65.000 Fan Pages, 8.000 Groups, 800 Applications and 100 Events across Facebook! (via rssgraffiti)

Oct 7th

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How Popular Is the iPhone, Really? [INFOGRAPHIC] →

Look at the application downloads figure! 99.4% of apps downloaded in 2009 were downloaded on an iPhone! I wonder how (if at all) Android managed to change that figure in 2010 and how the upcoming WP7 Marketplace is going to enter this market. But we will have to wait another year before we know how Microsoft has performed. Also notice that for every 2 iPhone users there is 1 Windows Mobile user....

Sep 29th

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(Social) Networks linked to the kind of work we do at ECDC. Interesting talk.

Sep 22nd

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“To deal with a problem in Sweden, means dealing with a problem of the system; to...”

– Quoting myself from a conversation I just had over lunch about differences between Swedish and Greek cultures (actually “Balkan” cultures, as I was talking with Romanian colleagues), where at some point I concluded that the Swedish System, despite its problems, is actually preferable...

Sep 22nd

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Android: What a mess...

So, I didn’t want to buy another iPhone. I couldn’t wait for WP7 either. It turns out that maybe I should have. So, let me count the ways I hate my Android (an HTC Desire btw): I keep getting the “low on space” message. Yes, the phone run out of space after I installed a handful of apps. I’m not getting into details but all workarounds involve hacking the phone one...

Sep 22nd

Seesmic Desktop 2 →

I was really impressed today by Seesmic Desktop 2 (coined SD2). It’s a very clean and impressive work. I like its attention to detail. It clearly shows how mature Seesmic is in its line of business. These guys were not afraid to invest on a client application for a third party service when they started and they now dive even deeper into the line of business they pioneered. This work shows...

Sep 9th

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Google's translation of currencies

I often use Google Translate in GMail to translate incoming messages from Swedish to English as my Swedish is not good enough yet. Here are two screens shots from a message before and after Google’s translation. The price of 149 Kronor has changed during translation to 149 dollars (which today is equivalent to 1084 kronor). The result is silly of course and shows how far from making a...

Sep 9th

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“iPhone 4 is Apple’s Windows Vista. Released one year too early.”

– Too bad hardware updates are not invented yet.

Jul 14th

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Facebook's share button should not restrict...

I think that Facebook’s “Share” button should not only allow you to share something on your Profile wall, but also let you post your share on the wall of any page your are a fan of, or any group you are a member of. Trying to think of why Facebook doesn’t do this, all I came up with is this: Posting a share on a Fan Page instead of your own wall would not push it on the...

Jul 6th

Abandoning Posterous

I’ve been quite puzzled lately by the number of blogs I keep. Granted my line of business requires me not only to keep an eye on many trends and services, but to also to have hands on experience on them, I do still have more blogs than I need and certainly more than I seem to be able or willing to maintain properly. So for me, the Tumblr vs Posterous battle was clearly won by Tumblr. The...

Jun 23rd

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“RSS Graffiti has just passed 50.000 targets!”

– RSS Graffiti launched 8 months ago. Today it serves over 12.000 Facebook Profiles, over 32.000 Fan Pages and over 4.000 Facebook Groups, publishing on them stories from 85.000 feeds every 5-6 minutes! (via rssgraffiti)

Jun 14th

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Jun 13th

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Jun 13th

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Jun 13th

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Jun 13th

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Jun 13th

Facebook limits users to 10 posts per day; says...

There is two ways to post a story on your wall: Login to facebook.com and type it in Facebook’s Publisher. Use any 3rd party application on your iPhone, your PC/Mac, or even a 3rd party service like RSS Graffiti to post without being logged in. As of March 23rd 2010, method (2) is limited to 10 posts per application per day! While most 3rd party application developers (and of course...

Apr 4th

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A better password manager by Google [request]

Google Chrome is my favorite browser. One of my favorite things about chrome is bookmark sync. Another thing I would like to see natively being supported by Chrome is a server based password manager service (like lastpass or 1password but made by Google).

Apr 1st

Commented on "Mashable - The Social Media Guide"

Google’s “Facebook style move” was initially Orkut. Buzz is a “Twitter style move”. I think that basically, at the moment, Google does not seem to have much clue of what they’re doing. The funny thing about the battle for the social landscape is that (although we probably don’t know the outcome yet) it somehow seems like history is rewriting itself quite...

Mar 31st

Commented on "Mashable - The Social Media Guide"

I really do like this one. Especially if the map on the envelop is generated automatically based on the sender’s and recipient’s addresses. Cool stuff. What would be even cooler would be to somehow be able to link the physical mail delivered back to something digital (i.e. with a Microsoft Tag). Nice! Originally posted as a comment by rousso on Mashable - The Social Media Guide using...

Mar 31st

Yay! My tumblog has got a brand new premium theme! :-)

Mar 24th

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@google and @bing: how about time dimension?

The web is old enough to contain lots of outdated information. I often click on top search results and find myself reading some article written 10+ years ago. What I would like to see in Google and/or Bing search, is an indicator of how old the content is. I know that Google already does this in blog search. But it can also be done for any page because the search engine knows when a page has...

Mar 18th

Facebook’s Version of the Retweet Has Arrived →

Jan 18th

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Things I hate in GMail: The Archive button

I hate to repeat myself, but I have to do it to illustrate my point. When I have an email open and I hit the Archive button, I wish GMail would display the next message in my current view instead of returning me back to the list so that I have to open an other message and so on. Waists my time! I hate it!

Jan 17th

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Things I hate in GMail: The Delete button

When I have an email open and I hit the delete button, I wish GMail would display the next message in my current view instead of returning me back to the list so that I have to open an other message and so on. Waists my time! I Hate it!

Jan 17th

redux.com is a good idea but...

I’m checking out http://redux.com which among other stuff (like sharing etc; which I’m not so interested in) allows you to have a better view of the media and hyper-links you receive in your twitter and Facebook streams every day. This is a very good idea actually. And the UI is quite nice looking etc. So, overall redux.com is a nice thing. But there is so much missing in there I...

Oct 28th

Aug 25th

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@twitter: since you do retweets then do replies...

Twitter has announced plans to support retweets in their protocol. I don’t know how they are going to implement it, but I would guess that they are probably going to use some of those 20 reserved characters in the message to relay the Id of the update being retweeted. Since you guys are on the job, maybe you could get two birds with one stone! (Got the analogy? I feel like a g*d damn poet...

Aug 14th

Aug 13th

Added my tumblr feed to RSS Graffiti. My posts in tumblr will now make it to my Facebook Stream.

Aug 12th

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“Sometimes I wonder how on earth did we end up writing code in PHP and...”

– silly me

Aug 10th

RTs keep coming of the @mashable story about the “Russian” attack on Twitter. I find the story ridiculous and I seriously start doubting if I should keep following @mashable since more and more of their stories I read lately are biased in one way or another. I think that fame and power (even the perception of them) often ruin people’s minds and maybe @mashable is falling on this...

Aug 7th

“It keeps amazing me the amount of bullshit people can buy. Especially the...”

– me reading this story on an attack at social media

Aug 7th

Hmm… One tweet just made it through to twhirl… Twitter has been down for some time now and since the outage is long enough to produce a long list of recent google results, I expect people to talk about this quite a lot after things roll back to normal (and of course during the crisis). I also noticed some glitches on Facebook at the same time though it seems mostly responsive all...

Aug 6th

Even if you act right away it might be too late...

I just stumbled upon a site that implements roughly an idea I had in the list of candidate I ideas to work in the future. I think it pretty much covers the subject so I will have to reevaluate the thoughts I already have on paper to see if the original idea is now obsolete or not. I’m talking about http://your.flowingdata.com/. Basically what they do is collect data through twitter DMs and...

Aug 5th