Jean-Marie

Bookmark the real world

Jean-Marie — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:50:00 +0000

This idea is great! From any web browser or from your mobile phone, you can "flag" any place in the world. This tools uses Google maps so you get either a map or a satellite view or an hybrid view. You can actually map all your favorite places. You can add a comment to each place you flag and share your places with friends and family, or even anyone. So when you went on a trip, or to a good restaurant, or any other place you want to share, just map them with flagr.

Try it, it's free: http://www.flagr.com/

Radio.Blog.Club

Jean-Marie — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:34:00 +0000

This site provides a stand-alone player that lets you stream sound on your website and tools to blog any track from the radio.blog.club database. Just search for your favorite artist, and copy/paste the code. You can also blog your own content and create playlists for your juke.blog player.

Try it:

http://www.radioblogclub.com/

I'am back

Jean-Marie — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:23:00 +0000

After a couple of months of inactivity on my blog, I am back and I will show you a few innovative tools I found on the web. The Internet stimulate creativity. The world is great!

Microsoft everywhere

Jean-Marie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:45:00 +0000

Be ready. Microsoft understands what pervasive computing is. Windows is already on your compter, PDA, mobile phone ...

... and very soon in your car.

Check this out (watch the videos):
Windows Automotive

The Prejudice Map

Jean-Marie — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +0000

According to Google, people in the world are known for... click here

No limits

Jean-Marie — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:25:00 +0000

Stores paint ads on roofs for satellite map services like Google Earth. Marketing has no limit...

Well connected

Jean-Marie — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:57:00 +0000

My caTV feeds me with 500 channels or so.
How many channels does this guy get?

16,000 Christmas lights

Jean-Marie — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:45:00 +0000

This display is the work of Carson Williams of Mason, Ohio, who used 88 channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. Apparently he spent somewhere between $2,500 and $5,000 on the hardware and a lot of man-hours programming the choreography. The music is broadcast on a vacant FM frequency which people driving by can tune in on their car stereo to listen to without disturbing the neighborhood.
http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv

Windows: 20 years old !!

Jean-Marie — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:13:00 +0000

Believe it or not, it's exactly 20 years since Microsoft released Windows 1.0

It looked like this:

Microsoft Windows 1.0 was introduced in November 1985 and was initially sold for $100.
Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released December 9, 1987 and was initially sold for $100 as well.

Microsoft Windows 3.0 was released May, 22 1990 and was priced at $149.95 for the full version and at $79.95 for the upgrade version.

Microsoft Windows 3.1 was released April, 1992.

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released October, 1992.

Microsoft Windows NT 3.1 was released August, 1993.
Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released February, 1994.

Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 was released September, 1994.
Microsoft Windows 95 was released August, 1995. Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 was released August, 1996.

Microsoft Windows 98 was released June, 1998.
Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) was released May 5, 1999.

Microsoft Windows 2000 was released February 2000.

Microsoft Windows ME (Millennium) released June 19, 2000.

Microsoft Windows XP was released October 25, 2001.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 was released March 28, 2003.

Microsoft Windows Vista release is expected on July 23, 2006.

Not so much...!

Jean-Marie — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 04:28:00 +0000

My blog is worth $564.54.
How much is your blog worth?

Your Ecological Footprint

Jean-Marie — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:42:00 +0000

This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet. You will discover why you must take action NOW to save the planet.

Start the Quiz

Cool job

Jean-Marie — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 01:26:00 +0000

According to the Wall Street Journal, "A small but growing number of businesses are hiring people to write blogs, otherwise known as Web logs, or frequently updated online journals. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits."

Only in America

Jean-Marie — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:23:00 +0000

Try it!

Jean-Marie — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 03:20:00 +0000

I have already been asked: But why do you have a blog? You may have time to waste, what is the benefit of it?

My answers so far:

I am new to this communication trend. I learnt a lot in 2 months about bloging, RSS Feeds, syndication, aggregators, etc. It helped me to get up to date on emerging technologies and trends.
I am interested in many topics. I read, browse the web, and spend time in bookstores. Very often, I want to share my thought and findings to whoever may be interested in. My blog is an easy and nice way to do it.
As mentioned in an article by Jason Miller for WebProNews, a blog can be use as your job agent. According to Jason, benefits are Personal Branding, Networking and Searchability. Personal branding: A web log becomes your personal brand, always on, and available for comment. Networking: Creating a web log allows access to the image that you build for yourself and makes it easier to project that image to the 1,000 daily visitors (a midrange estimate) to your blog. Searchability: A recent poll by Harris Interactive stated that 23% of the net savvy google the names of potential business contacts.
It is not time consuming. I just have to send an email to a predefined address to post a blog. It is that simple. If I see something unexpected in the street, I can blog it instantly with my cell phone. I can even post a picture directly from my cell phone.

Don't buy NZ kiwis!

Jean-Marie — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 21:22:00 +0000

The average Japanese woman can expect to live to 84; her counterpart in Botswana will die at 39.
Black men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail. For white men the odds are one in 17.
One in five of the world's population - 1.25 billion people - is undernourished.
Nearly half of British 15-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers.
Children living in poverty are three times more likely to suffer mental illness than children from wealthy families.
Eighty-one per cent of the world's executions in 2002 took place in just three countries: China, Iran and the USA.
Supermarkets in the UK know more about their customers than the government does. They use loyalty cards to determine your income and what your interests are.
Every cow in the EU is subsidized by 2 euros a day - three out of four Africans have less than that to live on.
Same-sex relationships are illegal in more than 70 countries. In nine - including Afghanistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia - the penalty is death.
Every hour, UK households throw away enough rubbish to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
There are 27 million slaves in the world.
A third of the world's population is at war. In 2002, 30 countries were fighting in 37 armed conflicts - a combined population of 2.29 billion people.
The UK has the second-highest rate of teen pregnancies in the developed world, behind the US. There are 30.8 births for every 1,000 teenagers. Teenage mothers are twice as likely to live in poverty.
One in five people live on less than $1 a day.
There are 44 million child laborers in India, some working 16-hour days.
People in industrialized countries eat between six and seven kilograms of food additives every year. A ham sandwich can contain up to 13 E-numbers.
Golfer Tiger Woods is the world's highest-paid sportsman, earning $80 million a year, including $55,000 a day for wearing Nike caps - which Thai workers get $4 a day to make.
Every week an average 88 children are expelled from US schools for carrying a gun.
Landmines kill or maim one person every hour.
There are at least 300,000 prisoners of conscience, often held in appalling conditions, sometimes tortured, simply for peacefully expressing their own beliefs.
Cars kill two people every minute.
The US owes the United Nations $1 billion in unpaid dues. Yet it spends the same amount on its military program every 23 hours.
Twenty-six million people voted in the 2001 UK General Election. More than 32 million votes were cast in the first series of Pop Idol.
In Kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household budget.
The world's trade in illegal drugs is estimated to be worth around $400 billion - about the same as the world's pharmaceutical industry.
To fly a kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the UK means five times its weight in greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere.
More than 150 countries are known to use torture.
Americans spend $10 billion on pornography every year - the same amount their government spends on foreign aid.
The average urban Briton is caught on camera 300 times a day. With 10 per cent of the world's 30 million CCTV cameras, UK is the most watched nation in the world.
In 2001, 13.2 million Americans and 2.5 million Britons had plastic surgery.
Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its armed forces. Physical beauty is so highly prized that calling someone vain is a compliment.
Eighty-two per cent of the world's smokers live in developing countries.
The world's oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.
More than 70 per cent of the world's population has never heard a dial tone. In Africa just one in 40 people has a phone.
A Quarter of the world's armed conflicts of recent years have involved a struggle for natural resources.
Almost 30 million Africans are HIV-positive. By 2050 the disease may have claimed as many as 280 million lives.
Ten languages die out every year.
More people die from suicide than in armed conflicts. In the past 45 years, suicide rates have grown by 60 per cent worldwide.
Seven million American women and one million American men suffer from an eating disorder.
There are 67,000 people employed in the lobbying industry in Washington DC - 125 for each member of Congress.
Since 1977, there have been 80,000 acts of violence or disruption at abortion clinics in North America.
There are 300,000 child soldiers fighting in conflicts around the world.
More people can identify the golden arches of McDonald's than the Christian cross. The same goes for the Shell oil logo, the Mercedes badge and the Olympic rings.
A third of the world's obese people live in the developing world. Campaigners blame Western countries for dumping cheap, processed, fatty foods on poorer nations.
In 2003 the US spent $379 billion on its military. This was 22 times the combined military spending of the seven "rogue states" - Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
More than 12,000 women are killed in Russia every year as a result of domestic violence.
Sixty-one per cent of British teenagers believe aliens have landed on Earth, while 39 per cent have any belief in Christianity.
Two million girls and women are subjected to genital mutilation every year.
In China, as a result of the preference for sons over daughters and the country's one-child-per-family law, there are 44 million fewer women than men.
Some 120,000 women and girls are trafficked into Western Europe every year. The UN estimates the trade is worth $7 billion a year

50 facts that I read yesterday in Georgetown in a book by British writer Jessica Williams titled "50 Facts That Should Change The World". An interesting vision of today's world.