The scary « Add a Location to Your Photos » feature on Facebook

This morning, Facebook showed me a picture I took a year ago, and they asked me if the picture was taken at Berri-UQAM.   ... Yes, it was... but how did you know ? Scary I say.  

The Cage aux Sports website now available in a Touch/HTML5/CSS3 version

We have recently launched the touch version of the Cage aux Sports website destined to users of the iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones. To build this version, we used HTML templates that were adapted to each content block (menus, newslist, site structure), which in turn allowed us to ensure that the content doesn't end up being duplicated. Moreover, this approach means that the site's admi...

Orangium in the sky, with diamonds?

Orangium soon available on Windows Azure!What does it mean?No more extra latency for remote users along with making scalability issues some remnants of a distant past!Let's take an example: you create a buzz while publishing pictures of the new Madonna's haircut. One million japanese fans takes over your site straight away!Well, that just goes fine. The cloud seamlessly replicates your web...

Federation of Quebec Alzheimer Societies powering up!

The Walk for Memories Web site helps walkers, donors and other visitors pick up the pace to their goal. The Walk’s Web site is more user-friendly, faster and easier to share with friends through social media.In a nutshell:  Simplified sharing for social media such as Facebook and Twitter, “Like” button available on all pages of the Walk’s Web site so you can post your favorite...

The profile pages of your website's members now include an URL shortener

From now on, your site's members can benefit from the integration of an URL shortener in order to easily share their profile pages on the Web. Here are two examples: Our profile on the cage.ca sitehttp://www.cage.ca/orangium Claudie's profile on the Alzheimer's Quebec donation stehttp://www.lamarchedelamemoire.com/claudie-borduas-100 (short URL = http://alz.cc/1c8y) ...

Don't change your URLs!

Most of the time, when you create a post on a website, CMS or blog, the URL is generated automatically based on your post's title.You can even customize your URL by removing words like and, at, or, as well as hyphens, apostrophes, and the like.I personally don't waste too much time on the issue and, with some rare exceptions, I always prefer natural language URLs. The important thing is ma...

The QR Code tsunami is coming

Here is the QR code in a nutshell: Point your phone at a printed page. Take a picture. Get taken to a website. That's the power of QR codes, codes embedded in print that can link cell phones to specific websites.