mehdi's posterous

25 Sep 2011

There used to be a bundt cake here

10 Sep 2011

Bo Taoshi (aka my new team building exercise)

via bbcicecream.com

Capture the flag game in japan.

6 May 2011

Music Friday

After an intense week, it's time for some intense music.

SebastiAn - Embody by edbangerrecords

16 Apr 2011

Late music friday

Have a great week-end everybody :

15 Apr 2011

Judge the state of a web company with their API

I have been playing a lot with different API lately. The integration with whatever I was doing came down to:

3 lines of code and 10 minutes integration for:

Disqus
Facebook
Wordpress

too many lines of code to count and 1/2 week integration for:

blogger
typepad
opensocial

I think it gives a pretty good picture of the state of the companies behind those properties.

8 Apr 2011

Brothers, Sisters : have a great week-end in the search of the promised land

via youtube.com

legend tune from the late 80s.

1 Apr 2011

Rediscovering Chris Brown. Real good stuffs.

via youtube.com

27 Mar 2011

Color from 2011 == Joost from 2007?

I'm finally catching up with tech news and blogging.

Something that seems to get everybody reacting is color. So I'm not gonna be an exception.

I tried the app, there is something behind it that I like but I'm not sure what. It seems a bit elitist though. it's snappy and good looking. I got some concerns about the user experience itself but may be I like things too simple.

As everybody is talking about the exorbitant round they raised, I'm not chocked. I actually don't care.

However, I find interesting that I keep thinking about joost whenever I read or play with color.

All star team for joost, All star team for color.
Colorful logo for color (sic!), colorful logo for joost (at least in the early days).
Great technology for color, great technology for joost
Awkward user experience for color, same for joost in the early days.
Sequoia founded both companies.

Let see where that takes us.