Filed under: Notebook by Nicolas Cynober on February 27th, 2008 | No Comments »

J’ai visité ce matin Paris Innovation Bourse, l’incubateur de Paris développement, qui héberge 18 jeunes start-up dont Musicovery. Cette société française propose des chemins pour parcourir des univers musicaux. Vous pouvez sélectionner une période de temps, un genre ou même une énergie, et des chemins se créent entre les morceaux. Ce qu’on peut dire c’est qu’ils ont déjà fait le choix d’utiliser la machine pour organiser les morceaux… Je trouve pas non plus l’interface super sexy. Et je parle pas de la monétisation avec le bandeau AdSense.

Nicolas

Filed under: Competitors, User Interface by Nicolas Cynober on February 22nd, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Définition de la sérendipité selon le wikipédia anglais…

“Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persianfairy tale and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,

“It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right-now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon’s, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table.”

… Un résumé de la façon dont la navigation sur Broceliand doit fonctionner?

Patrice

Filed under: Platform, Vision by Patrice Lamothe on February 16th, 2008 | No Comments »