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Embedding a Bullet Time picture set on your website

It is now possible to embed a Bullet Time picture set on your blog or on your web site. Simply use the gear menu, and copy the embed code.   A couple of exemples : (each of these examples is displayed using the embed code from the site on which it belongs)  

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.  

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...

Avoid external services and shorten your URLs directly in Oranigum

Following a survey conducted by WatchMouse that revealed URL shorteners are not speed champions, we wondered how our own internal URL system fared in comparison. In that survey, the metric we are concerned about is the processing time. In Orangium, this corresponds to the duration column in our tracing reports: that is where we can outpace others. The average processing of our internal URL shor...

Trademarks in Quebec: what symbol should be used?

Having recently been greenlighted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office for the Orangium trademark, we decided to take a longer look at the various trademarks and their symbols.   According to the CIPO http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00856.html: Marking requirements Canada's Trade-marks Act does not contain any marking requirements. However, t...

Even source code written by a programmer or integrator is protected by the Copyright act

I could try and explain the following, but I wouldn't do a better job than DAMIC (Droit d’auteur / Multimédia-Internet / Copyright) @ http://www.damic.qc.ca/. The site itself is outdated, but the information it contains is still up to date: "Literary work Words, words and more words... but software, too!   All forms of written content are included in this category. ...

Freelancers own their copyright even when you paid them for their work

As previously mentionned in the post  Even stories written by freelancers for your Web site are protected by the Copyright Act, frelancers and other contract workers remain the owners of their copyrights unless an assignment of rights or licence contract is signed by the freelancer and yourself. In other words, what you are paying for is the manpower, not the final product. The result of t...

Even stories written by freelancers for your Web site are protected by the Copyright Act

Any copy wirtten for a Web site, an electronic bulletin board, a blog, a Twitter-type message (a message of 140 characters or less), a forum and even the content of an email constitutes a "litterary work" according to the Canadian Copyright Act .   Freelancers, contract workers and other self-employed workers remain the holders of the moral rights and copyrights (or exploitation r...

How does Google determin a tweet's relevance in its real-time indexing

How does Google rank a tweet in its real-time indexing Google innovates once again and introduces the Google PageRank technology and now displays tweets in mere seconds! Just a month ago, those 140 caracters microblogs took up to 15 minutes to be indexed by Google's search results. According to David Talbot's article How Google Ranks Tweets, here's how this new Google technology works: ...

Ten Ways to Green Your Website

 Last Saturday (Jan. 2), Cyrus Patten published an article on mashable.com explaining how to green your website in ten easy ways. Although the first six points should not be overlooked (green hosting, awareness, certifications), what grabbed our attention was the technical aspect of greening one's website. #7 and #8: Simplify your design and speed up your site Each server request takes e...

We bought Michelle Blanc

During the Guignolée du web, we purchased Michelle Blanc for the sum of $1123.48. The details are here: http://www.michelleblanc.com/2009/12/07/michelle-blanc-aux-encheres.  Donations can still be made here http://www.guignoleeduweb.org/en/ Our donation for $ 1123.48$ was given to Moisson Montréal.  

What's the best time to blog or send an email

What's the best time to blog or send an email When writing a blog post, it is perfectly norml to want to maximize its impact. Therefore, asking oneself "What's the best day of the week and hour of the day to publish a post in order to maximize the number of people who will read it?" Let me first clear something: there is no absolute best moment in a week to publish, no matter what. The fa...

Maximize your impact on search engines and social networks

Writing the best possible blog post requires you to consider two main things: • the actual writing (the title and story itself) • its visibility Let's begin with the title. It is the key component of you post. It must immediately tell the reader what you post is about. It must be hooky and not too long, use words that carry a punch and are straight to the point. The story. It m...