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		<title>How to create ebooks of webpages to read later on your smartphone or iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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I have been using this trick to get all the webpages I want to read bundled in an eBook that I can carry offline and read on my Nexus One. You can also use any ePub compatible reader, e.g. on your iPad too.
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<p>I have been using this trick to get all the webpages I want to read bundled in an eBook that I can carry offline and read on my Nexus One. You can also use any ePub compatible reader, e.g. on your iPad too.</p>
<p><strong>Requirements</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://www.google.com/phone" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.google.com/phone?referer=');">Google Nexus One</a> (or any other smartphone or mobile device which has an ePub eBook reader)</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.aldiko.com/features.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.aldiko.com/features.html?referer=');">Aldiko</a> on Google Nexus One (or your preferred ePub eBook reader on your device)</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.instapaper.com/?referer=');">Instapaper</a> account</p>
<p><strong>Method</strong></p>
<p>1. Add the Instapaper <strong><a href="http://www.instapaper.com/edit" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.instapaper.com/edit?referer=');">Read Later</a></strong> Bookmarklet to your browser bookmark bar.</p>
<p>To do that, on your account, click on Add+, then drag the &#8220;Read Later&#8221; bookmarket into your browser&#8217;s bookmark bar</p>
<p>2. On any webpage that you want to read later, click the Read Later bookmarklet to save it to Instapaper. When you&#8217;re done saving several webpages of different sites, that will constitute your eBook, proceed to step 3:</p>
<p>3. On Instapaper, Add a new folder and name it.</p>
<p>4. On Instapaper, in Unread, move all the pages you want to read into the folder you just created. Once done, proceed to 5.</p>
<p>5. On your Nexus One (or other device), browse to Instapaper.com.</p>
<p>6. Select the folder you want to create an eBook out of.</p>
<p>7. Click the ePub icon underneath the Download (Beta) section</p>
<p>8. The eBook will download. Once downloaded, Click on it and it will be imported in your Aldiko bookshelf and you can read it offline.</p>
<p><strong>Troubleshooting</strong></p>
<p>Sometimes, step 8 doesn&#8217;t work. In that case, just download the .ePub file from a desktop or laptop and transfer it to your device manually.</p>
<p><strong>Aldiko settings</strong></p>
<p>My preferred settings for Aldiko are:<br />
- Disabled screen rotation: I want to be able to read resting on my side when in bed<br />
- Use Volume buttons to flip pages (and disable touching the screen to flip pages)<br />
- Page flip time at minimum<br />
- Readable font size</p>
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		<title>How is the Internet changing the way you think?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Brockman asks the Thinkers community over at the Edge World Question Center,  in its Annual Question edition.
Marissa Mayer from Google answers this: &#8220;It&#8217;s not what you know, it&#8217;s what you can find out&#8221;:
To achieve true automated, general understanding and visualization, we will need much better machine learning, entity extraction, and semantics capable of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John Brockman asks the Thinkers community over at <a href="http://www.edge.org/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.edge.org/?referer=');">the Edge</a> <a href="http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.edge.org/q2010/q10_index.html?referer=');">World Question Center</a>,  in its Annual Question edition.</p>
<p>Marissa Mayer from Google answers this: <a href="http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_2.html#mayerm" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.edge.org/q2010/q10_2.html_mayerm?referer=');">&#8220;It&#8217;s not what you know, it&#8217;s what you can find out&#8221;</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>To achieve true automated, general understanding and visualization, we will need much better machine learning, entity extraction, and semantics capable of operating at vast scale.</p>
<p>On that note — <strong>and in terms of future Internet innovation, the important question may not be how the Internet is changing how we think but instead how the Internet is teaching itself to think.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Other interesting perspectives from thinkers and writers I like  include:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_1.html#brockman" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.edge.org/q2010/q10_1.html_brockman?referer=');">John Brockman</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_1.html#hillis" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.edge.org/q2010/q10_1.html_hillis?referer=');">Danny Hillis</a>, Daniel Dennett, Howard Rheingold, etc&#8230;</p>
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		<title>January 1st Technology reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everybody. 2010 has a lot in store in Technology.
Because it is good to keep the energy going even though it&#8217;s the first day of the year. Here are some interesting posts I have been reading:
Robert Scoble&#8217;s favorite Tech Twitters
This allowed me to discover a few people that are interesting to follow, Marshall [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy New Year, everybody. 2010 has a lot in store in Technology.</p>
<p>Because it is good to keep the energy going even though it&#8217;s the first day of the year. Here are some interesting posts I have been reading:</p>
<li><a href="http://scobleizer.com/2010/01/01/my-favorite-tech-twitterer-of-the-year-as-collated-from-11000-of-the-best-tweets-of-the-year/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/scobleizer.com/2010/01/01/my-favorite-tech-twitterer-of-the-year-as-collated-from-11000-of-the-best-tweets-of-the-year/?referer=');">Robert Scoble&#8217;s favorite Tech Twitters</a></li>
<p>This allowed me to discover a few people that are interesting to follow, Marshall Kirkpatrick being one.</p>
<li>Om Malik&#8217;s <a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/01/01/apple-company-of-the-decade/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/gigaom.com/2010/01/01/apple-company-of-the-decade/?referer=');">Why Apple was my company of the decade</a></li>
<p>My own view is that Google is fundamentally a better company for the long run. <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2009/12/30/clash-of-the-titans-google-vs-apple-in-2010-and-beyond/">Apple and Google will clash on several front as from this year as I wrote here.</a></p>
<li>Michael Arrington&#8217;s <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/01/2010-my-fifth-annual-list-of-the-tech-products-i-love-and-use-every-day/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/01/2010-my-fifth-annual-list-of-the-tech-products-i-love-and-use-every-day/?referer=');">Fifth Annual list of Products he loves and uses everyday</a></li>
<p>Totally great list. I use most of these myself. I also add to the chorus of gratitude to the <a href="http://wordpress.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/wordpress.com/?referer=');">WordPress</a> team. WordPress powers YashLabs since 2005 after I compared it to Joomla and Drupal.</p>
<li>Erick Shonfeld&#8217;s <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/01/ten-technologies-2010/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/01/ten-technologies-2010/?referer=');">Ten Technologies that will Rock 2010</a></li>
<li>Christina Warren&#8217;s <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/01/01/nexus-one-vs-islate/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/mashable.com/2010/01/01/nexus-one-vs-islate/?referer=');">Google Nexus One vs Apple tablet, which one excites you more?</a></li>
<p>I say Google Nexus One because <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2009/12/20/top-9-reasons-why-the-google-nexus-one-phone-beats-apples-iphone/">I know Google will subsidize my Telecommunication costs in the future</a>, <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2009/12/16/why-the-google-phone-matters-deloittes-tmt-predictions-2010-mytmt/">massively disrupting the Traditional Telco industry</a>, but the people say &#8220;Apple Tablet&#8221; for now.</p>
<p>Also, the Nexus One is just a few days away, whereas the tablet has had some setbacks for the launch date. Make no mistake though: when the Apple tablet is released, it will be a truly fantastic product &#8211; the one you will use for reading books, watching clips and do video-conferencing, etc&#8230;</p>
<li><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2010_new_years_resolutions_from_the_rww_geeks.php" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2010_new_years_resolutions_from_the_rww_geeks.php?referer=');">2010 New Year&#8217;s resolutions from the ReadWriteWeb Team</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.brightsideofnews.com/print/2009/10/12/an-inconvenient-truth-intel-larrabee-story-revealed.aspx" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.brightsideofnews.com/print/2009/10/12/an-inconvenient-truth-intel-larrabee-story-revealed.aspx?referer=');">An inconvenient Truth: Intel Larrabee story revealed</a></li>
<p>I argued that a <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2009/12/07/intel-cancels-launch-of-graphics-chip-nvdia-amd-surge/">CPU and a GPU are two very different beasts and that AMD did well to buy ATI rather than re-invent the wheel in this post earlier</a>.</p>
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		<title>Revisiting past Technology &amp; Business predictions &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the close of 2009, it is time to revisit my past predictions and see how I fared. I find that with time, my blog has become more self-referential as things I have envisioned years ago &#8211;  sometimes up to 4 years ago &#8211; become validated or progress in the general direction I foretold.
1. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the close of 2009, it is time to revisit my past predictions and see how I fared. I find that with time, my blog has become more self-referential as things I have envisioned years ago &#8211;  sometimes up to 4 years ago &#8211; become validated or progress in the general direction I foretold.</p>
<p><strong>1. <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2007/07/02/google-telecom-hello/">Google Telecom, Hello!</a> &#8211; July 2nd, 2007</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_402" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.34.41-PM1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-402" title="Google" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.34.41-PM1-300x108.png" alt="Google" width="300" height="108" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Google</p></div>
<p>I envisioned then as TechCrunch had featured a rumour that Google was going to buy GrandCentral, that Google was bent on becoming a Telco or ISP themselves.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The acquisition of GrandCentral and mobile ambitions – The Google phone?</strong></p>
<p>GrandCentral provides you with one phone number linked to all your existing phone numbers, and many other features (thanks to Techcrunch for this great overview) through its website and also through your mobile.</p>
<p>There have been rumors of the Google phone before, and such a device with the mobile Google applications, linked to all the Google integrated goodies mentioned above would be pure bliss for managing and sharing data and event information with contacts when either online or offline thanks to Google Gears.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong>Google’s killer move</strong></p>
<p>Here is what I predict will happen with Google Telecom. Based on the current state of Telecom, i.e. VOIP disrupting the industry with the old Telcos still charging too much while there are cheaper VOIP offers like the Gizmo Project, Skype, VBuzzer and Jajah, Google will adopt a similar strategy to Google Apps. With Google Apps, Google has a tiered access: free access for users and paid access for businesses.</p>
<p><strong>I believe Google Telecom will offer free calls locally and worldwide to fixed telephone lines and mobiles to individual users and basic paid access for businesses and bring a more severe disruption of the Telecom industry as it will rely on getting more advertising through these channels.</strong> Alternately, Google could use the Google Web infrastructure to position itself as an ISP and offer free Internet access to all too.</p>
<p>That’s a killer strategy, and they can pull it off. Beautifully at that.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>2. <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2007/03/11/how-apple-will-revolutionize-music-making/">How Apple will revolutionize music-making</a> &#8211; March 11th, 2007</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_403" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 150px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.35.14-PM1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-403" title="Apple" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.35.14-PM1-e1262195541756.png" alt="Apple" width="140" height="165" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Apple</p></div>
<p>Months before the launch of the iPhone, I foresaw how the multi-touch device will change the way we make music, essentially because multi-touch is organic and enables the use of the device as Midi controllers.</p>
<p>However, the iPhone and the iPod Touch are a little too small for a big revolution. The forthcoming tablet will be different. Being bigger, we can expect many more practical uses  like playing virtual instruments live, using the tablet as a virtual mixer and sequencer and so on.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>The whole experience of how you make music within a sequencer with virtual instruments is about to be revolutionized by Apple with a forthcoming combination of multi-touch hardware and software based on Logic and running on at least Leopard.</p>
<p>The very act of recording, manipulating and producing music on a computer will become an organic performance in itself.</p>
<p>I don’t know when it’s coming, but I do know it’s soon, probably this year, and it’s going to be Apple and Leopard+.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Next three ones come from a long post called <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2005/10/10/the-web-os-web-20-yubnub-and-yashnub/">The Web O.S., Web 2.0, yubnub and YashNub</a> dated October 10th, 2005.</p>
<blockquote><p>A revolution is under way. It is one of those times when technologies developed separately converge and congeal. From this emerges a new system that is better than the sum of its parts.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>3. The Web O.S. / The Cloud &#8211; October 10th, 2005</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>This begs the question of how to propagate technical requirements to an underlying platform to enhance the end-user’s experience with Web 2.0.</p>
<p>The first point of contact is the user’s browser.<br />
&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>My view of the Web OS is that it must be a combination of the computer’s OS and the browser.</strong> &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Given Firefox and AJAX and great web services, there will be an increasing migration of desktop applications to remotely hosted locations on the web.</strong> Of course, not all applications can be hosted this way yet – desktop installed apps will still be around for a long time.</p>
<p>But assuming increased hosted services, <strong>it is a simple and logical step to envision that the computer OS can itself be tweaked for Web 2.0 usage. In other words, you could enhance existing Web support, but in addition, you could also strip an existing computer OS from any superfluous capabilities and code. You would then obtain a low-cost alternative to the bloated (and sometimes expensive) OSes currently available.</strong></p>
<p><strong>These WebOS 2.0 PC’s, being cheaper, could be used to power schools, especially in developing and third world countries and businesses alike.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Businesses would also benefit of broadband connections to leverage hosted services.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Although schools in poor areas may have broadband, they would still benefit of the network architecture: imagine just one server providing the necessary web services to a class of pupils. They could all be writing their assignment with a software like Writely.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>The whole of the software service maintenance is outsourced – this is less costly in time and money for anyone using a PC with Web OS.</strong></p>
<p>Of note recently is the announcement of the partnership between Google and Sun for cross-marketing of their services. This fuelled a lot of speculation about whether a Web version of StarOffice would be in the works. In addition, people have been talking about a possible Google browser and GoogleOS.</p>
<p><strong>I envision the future Web O.S. to be a stripped down Linux distribution with subsequent enhancements. And the single distribution which is poised as the best contender has to be Mark Shuttleworth’s forever free Ubuntu Linux.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Based on the above, I don’t think Google is preparing a browser or O.S. Because both the browser (Firefox) and the Computer OS (Ubuntu Linux) already exist, it doesn’t seem to be a good strategy to me.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>4. Firefox &#8211; October 20th, 2005</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/gs.statcounter.com/_browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951?referer=');">In December 2009, Firefox overtakes IE 7 to become the Word&#8217;s most popular browser.</a></p>
<blockquote>
<div id="attachment_397" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 134px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.36.57-PM.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-397" title="Firefox" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.36.57-PM.png" alt="Firefox" width="124" height="119" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Firefox</p></div>
<p>&#8230;<br />
My weapon of choice in this area is Firefox and it should be yours too. Mozilla’s awesome open-source browser is highly customizable through a variety of extensions. A personal favourite is GreaseMonkey which allows you to install scripts that personalize the browsing experience of some sites, removing annoyances in some cases or enhancing functionality in others.</p>
<p><strong>My view of the Web OS is that it must be a combination of the computer’s OS and the browser. The advantage with a browser like Firefox is that it is already cross-platform and standards-based. It is therefore a candidate of choice for basing any development of the Web 2.0 services.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>I also praised Firefox in this other post in <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2005/11/08/firefox-the-worlds-best-browser/">November 2005 &#8211; Firefox, the world best browser</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Not only that, but the Mozilla team, true to Open Source spirit, regularly updated the browser. More specifically, they patched any flaw very rapidly.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>5. Ruby on Rails &#8211; October 10th, 2005</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_404" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.35.37-PM1.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-404" title="Twitter" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.35.37-PM1-300x72.png" alt="Twitter" width="300" height="72" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Twitter</p></div>
<p><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/2009/12/22/twitter-profitable-after-google-and-microsoft-deals-its-a-win-for-ruby-on-rails/" target="_blank">Thanks to launching with Ruby on Rails, Twitter has managed to raise $25M at the end of this year.</a></p>
<div id="attachment_399" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.37.15-PM.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-399 " title="Ruby on Rails" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.37.15-PM-150x150.png" alt="Ruby on Rails" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ruby on Rails</p></div>
<p><a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/rubyonrails.org/?referer=');">Ruby on Rails</a> is a Rapid Web Development framework built using <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.ruby-lang.org/en/?referer=');">Ruby</a>, an open-source and truly object-oriented programming language.</p>
<div id="attachment_400" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.37.59-PM.png"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-400" title="Ruby" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screen-shot-2009-12-30-at-12.37.59-PM-e1262195298493.png" alt="Ruby" width="150" height="48" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ruby</p></div>
<blockquote><p>I am quite fond of Matsumoto-san’s Ruby language and hence I founded a local Ruby user Group.</p>
<p>Ruby on Rails has made the development of new web services a disarmingly simple thing to do. The very implementation of the Rails framework enables you not to have to repeat yourself in your code. Actually, a lot of the code is automatically generated.</p>
<p>Thanks to David Heinemeier Hansson and thousand of other contributors, RoR is and will continue to be a driving force for evolving Web 2.0 because it’s now easy and fast to build new applications. It’s also worth mentioning that RoR now incorporates AJAX functionality by default.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>6. Open-source</strong></p>
<p>I have been involved in Linux User Groups and the open-source community for more than a decade and I use and recommend open-source software for that much to enterprises and individuals alike.</p>
<p>Open-source continues to grow as an influential way of building technology and businesses.  Sometimes, the open-source product is better engineered than the commercial product, since:</p>
<li>Companies usually operate in an economy of resources mode and management often have no clue what development is about.</li>
<li>In the open-source world, &#8220;with sufficient eyeballs, all bugs are shallow&#8221;,  meaning that someone, somewhere in the world is an expert in solving exactly the problem or bug that the software has and can do so in a small period of time.</li>
<p>Therefore, building proprietary solutions from scratch is an increasingly losing battle. It is much better to build around open-source software and open standards, ensuring interoperability and robustness.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/?referer=');">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/?referer=');">Twitter</a>,  <a href="http://wordpress.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/wordpress.com/?referer=');">WordPress</a>, <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.ubuntu.com/?referer=');">Ubuntu</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.google.com?referer=');">Google</a>, Apple <a href="http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC223Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&amp;mco=MTA4MjgwNDE" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/store.apple.com/us/product/MC223Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA_amp_mco=MTA4MjgwNDE&amp;referer=');">Mac OS X</a> are all built with or around open-source software.</p>
<p>By the way, Eric Raymond, the term &#8216;open source&#8217; won &#8211; we rarely hear of Free Software anymore. However, let&#8217;s not forget the seminal work of Richard Stallman.</p>
<p>At the close of 2009, one of the most impressive companies of the decade relies heavily on Open-source software, contributes heavily to the Open-Source community and has evolved into a major player in several industries by building a hybrid business model:</p>
<blockquote><p><code>Proprietary or closed-sourced core algorithms and technology<br />
+<br />
Heavily leverage open-source technology and contribute back to the community</code></p></blockquote>
<p>That company is Google and is a great model for merging technology and business and succeeding in the digital age and the knowledge economy. Note that to replicate Google&#8217;s success, you also have to rely heavily on Engineers and Engineering in Computer Science.</p>
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		<title>Congratulations to Al Gore on winning the Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was hoping for this, and Al Gore deserves the Nobel Peace Price for his excellent work on making people more aware of Global Warming.
In turn I was hoping that this award, which follows the Oscar, would give more visibility to &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8220;, the documentary which shows most of Gore&#8217;s presentation.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=60">hoping</a> for <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/12/nobel.gore/index.html#cnnSTCText" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/12/nobel.gore/index.html_cnnSTCText?referer=');">this</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore?referer=');">Al Gore</a> deserves the Nobel Peace Price for his excellent work on making people more aware of Global Warming.</p>
<p>In turn I was hoping that this award, which follows the <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=71">Oscar</a>, would give more visibility to &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_inconvenient_truth" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_inconvenient_truth?referer=');">An Inconvenient Truth</a>&#8220;, the documentary which shows most of Gore&#8217;s presentation.</p>
<p>I covered the documentary in a <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=53">previous post on eye-opening movies</a> and if you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, now is a good time to do so.</p>
<p>In life, sometimes one door closes, but floodgates open instead.</p>
<p>Congratulations Mr. Gore.</p>
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		<title>DemoCampMontreal2 &#8211; Thu March 29th &#8211; SAT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yash</dc:creator>
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DemoCampMontreal2 happens tomorrow. Geeks, Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, Savvy Businessmen, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists of The Montreal Tech Scene will gather freely to share a most fantastic 2 hours together, and maybe even a drink or two at the SAT bar while seeing five interesting demos.
MAP:: Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Boul. St. Laurent
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<p>DemoCampMontreal2 happens tomorrow. Geeks, Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, Savvy Businessmen, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists of The Montreal Tech Scene will gather freely to share a most fantastic 2 hours together, and maybe even a drink or two at the SAT bar while seeing five interesting demos.</p>
<p><strong>MAP:</strong>: <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=1195+Boulevard+St-Laurent,+Montr%C3%A9al,+QC&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;om=1&#038;z=15&#038;iwloc=addr" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/maps.google.ca/maps?f=q_038_hl=en_038_q=1195+Boulevard+St-Laurent_+Montr_C3_A9al_+QC_038_ie=UTF8_038_om=1_038_z=15_038_iwloc=addr&amp;referer=');">Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Boul. St. Laurent</a></p>
<div class="vevent"> <a class="url" href="http://www.barcamp.org/DemoCampMontreal2" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.barcamp.org/DemoCampMontreal2?referer=');"> <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070329T1830-0500">February 27th 6:30pm</abbr>, <abbr class="dtend" title="20070329T2030-0500"> 8:30pm 2007</abbr> &mdash; <span class="summary">DemoCampMontreal1</span>&mdash; at <span class="location">Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), 1195 Boul. St. Laurent</span> </a></div>
<p><strong>The presentations</strong></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://collectik.net/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/collectik.net/?referer=');">Collektik</a> &#8211; <a href="http://dosemagazine.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/dosemagazine.com/?referer=');">Hugh McGuire</a></p>
<p>Hugh is the mastermind behind project <a href="http://librivox.org/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/librivox.org/?referer=');">LibriVox</a>, which harnesses open participation and open-source software together with the free content of Project Gutenberg to provide you with a growing collection of free audio-books for your listening pleasure. </p>
<p>Wasn&#8217;t that a long sentence? Well, through LibriVox, a volunteer could read it out loud, record it, upload it onto the site so you could in turn freely get it as a long audio sentence in mp3 for your media player. And if it&#8217;s too long, people can collaborate on the task too.</p>
<p>Come see his newest project, Collectik. It&#8217;s like mixtapes but for podcasts. </p>
<p>Or else he might also present a super-secret stealth-ninja-mode project. Something kept under wraps behind a second closed vault door or something.</p>
<p>2. <a href="http://www.kakiloc.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kakiloc.com/?referer=');">Kakiloc</a> &#8211; Martin Dufort </p>
<p>A location-based mobile social networking project. Austin Hill is said to have gently persuaded Martin Dufort to present &#8211; something involving twisting arms.</p>
<p>3. <a href="http://www.iotum.com/index.php" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.iotum.com/index.php?referer=');">iotum</a> Talk Now</p>
<p>iotum Talk-Now enables you to customize your availability information and share it through your BlackBerry.</p>
<p>4. <a href="http://opensourcecinema.org/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/opensourcecinema.org/?referer=');">Open Source Cinema</a> &#8211; <a href="http://opensourcecinema.org/blog/1" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/opensourcecinema.org/blog/1?referer=');">Brett</a> <a href="http://www.etherworks.ca/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.etherworks.ca/?referer=');">Gaylor</a></p>
<p>Brett Gaylor was the host of the first impromptu <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=77">Mashpit</a> in Montreal so that an ad-hoc team of four (Brett, Hugh, <a href="http://www.afroginthevalley.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.afroginthevalley.com/?referer=');">Sylvain</a> and myself) met around mostly Macs, a few Sleeman beers and some tasty end-of-night whiskey all soaked up in pizza to help bring his Drupal-based collaborative web-site to fruition. Brett is currently working on &#8220;Basement Tapes&#8221; a movie about free culture. During his project, he&#8217;s met some little-known people like <a href="http://lessig.org/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/lessig.org/?referer=');">Lawrence Lessig</a>, DJ Girltalk and me.</p>
<p>5. <a href="http://www.bumptop.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.bumptop.com/?referer=');">BumpTop</a></p>
<p>Anand Agarawala from Toronto will present BumpTop&#8217;s revolutionary interface technology which puts physics and realism back into your bland 2D GUI.</p>
<p>For more information:<br />
<a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampMontreal2" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/barcamp.org/DemoCampMontreal2?referer=');">DemoCampMontreal2</a><br />
Fred also has <a href="http://siliconisland.ca/2007/03/26/democampmontreal2-this-thursday-march-29th/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/siliconisland.ca/2007/03/26/democampmontreal2-this-thursday-march-29th/?referer=');">more info on his blog</a>.</p>
<p>Looks like Austin Hill will replace &#8220;Big&#8221; John Kopanas (a worthy successor of the UFC&#8217;s &#8220;Big&#8221; John McCarthy) as MC this time around, and multi-talented, omelette-engineering expert, <a href="http://sfllaw.livejournal.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/sfllaw.livejournal.com/?referer=');">Simon Law</a> will fulfill photographic duties again.</p>
<p><strong>Quick Presentation Tips</strong></p>
<p>At DemoCamp, there are no slides. This can be tricky. Here are a few tips to keep in mind and also put in practice for your experience to be a success:</p>
<p>1. Know you goal for presenting at DemoCamp<br />
2. Based on your goal, define your audience<br />
3. Know which language and communication style you want to use with your audience<br />
4. Communicate the benefits of your projects, your goals early.</p>
<p>For instance, if your goal is to find funding for your startup, then you know you want to reach angel investors and venture capitalists. You should then make it clear that your objective is to find funding but make sure also that you manage to make a convincing case of your business benefits very early. I&#8217;d say about 80% of your presentation should be about the business benefits and 20% about the technology itself to also cater for the geek audience in this example.</p>
<p>Of course there are other goals to presenting at DemoCamp, just make sure you communicate the benefits clearly to your audience. Clear communication will also make it easier for us to spread the good news about your projects and technology and about you too.</p>
<p><strong>Previous Reports</strong></p>
<p>1. DemoCampMontreal1 &#8211; <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=73">part1</a> &#8211; <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=74">part 2</a><br />
2. <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=57">DemoCampCUSEC1</a></p>
<p>This last week of March sure is an <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/montrealtechleague/blog/2007/03/25/packed-week-in-montreals-tech-scene/">event-packed one in Montreal&#8217;s Tech Scene</a>. </p>
<p>I will see you there. Say hi.</p>
<p>&#8212;-<br />
<em><br />
If you&#8217;re an astute geek or tech-oriented business person who reads my personal blog at <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/">YashLabs</a>, you are most probably already using <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.mozilla.com/en-US/?referer=');">FireFox</a> and have installed the <a href="http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/02/16/operator-07a-is-available/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/02/16/operator-07a-is-available/?referer=');">Operator</a> plugin, which will enable you to <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=75">easily add these events into your online calendar</a>. All are open-source and free technologies.</em></p>
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		<title>Yulblog &#8211; 7 ans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le septiÃ¨me anniversaire de Yulblog (liste et rencontres de bloggeurs de MontrÃ©al) vendredi soir Ã©tait agrÃ©mentÃ© par le lancement de trois livres qui proviennent de blogs.
Sof &#8211; Lucie le chien
Pierre-LÃ©on &#8211; Un taxi la nuit
MÃ¨re indigne
Faste-Fou
J&#8217;ai retrouvÃ© Deborah et Christelle au Faste-fou sur St-Hubert juste avant et j&#8217;y ai passÃ© un excellent moment en leur [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Le septiÃ¨me anniversaire de Yulblog (liste et rencontres de bloggeurs de MontrÃ©al) vendredi soir Ã©tait agrÃ©mentÃ© par le lancement de trois livres qui proviennent de blogs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zerotom.net/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.zerotom.net/?referer=');">Sof</a> &#8211; Lucie le chien<br />
Pierre-LÃ©on &#8211; <a href="http://taxidenuit.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/taxidenuit.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Un taxi la nuit</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mereindigne.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.mereindigne.com/?referer=');">MÃ¨re indigne</a></p>
<p><strong>Faste-Fou</strong></p>
<p>J&#8217;ai retrouvÃ© <a href="http://sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/?referer=');">Deborah</a> et <a href="http://christellefv.com/weblog/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/christellefv.com/weblog/?referer=');">Christelle</a> au Faste-fou sur St-Hubert juste avant et j&#8217;y ai passÃ© un excellent moment en leur compagnie. Deborah Ã©tait dÃ©jÃ  habillÃ©e en Leprechaun pour l&#8217;occasion de la Saint-Patrick &#8211; toute en verte avec la ceinture ornÃ©e de trÃ¨fle Ã  quatre feuilles &#8211; et a savourÃ© son Ã©norme plat de frites en deux-temps-trois-mouvements. Christelle a hÃ¢te d&#8217;avoir son chien &#8220;Mira&#8221;.</p>
<p>La nourriture au Faste-fou Ã©tait trÃ¨s bonne, la musique pas forte, ce qui fait qu&#8217;on a pu parler tranquillement entre nous. Par la suite, Christelle n&#8217;a pas pu tenir bien longtemps &#8211; elle voulait absolument faire le plein de bonbons chez Oscar juste Ã  cÃ´tÃ©.</p>
<p><strong>Oscar</strong></p>
<p>Chez Oscar c&#8217;Ã©tait l&#8217;embarras du choix. Christelle a finalement jetÃ© son dÃ©volu sur des bonbons bicolores trÃ¨s acidulÃ©s que j&#8217;ai bien aimÃ© (elle m&#8217;a gÃ©nÃ©reusement laissÃ© en puiser deux dans son stock personnel, dont le lime-raisin et l&#8217;excellent citron-orange je crois). Deborah a choisi des &#8220;lÃ¨vres chaudes&#8221;, bonbons rouges Ã©picÃ©s et mÃªme forts Ã  l&#8217;aprÃ¨s goÃ»t. Et nous avons aussi pris des bonbons en forme de coeurs avec des petits messages dessus pour en offrir aux bloggeurs.</p>
<p><strong>Salle Belle Gueule, RJ Brasseurs</strong></p>
<p>En route vers RJ Brasseurs, Christelle me faisait la prÃ©sentation de son quartier avec l&#8217;aide de Deborah. J&#8217;ai donc eu droit Ã  une prÃ©sentation de l&#8217;Auberge avec sauna, la salle miroir, etc&#8230; Deborah mentionna l&#8217;exterminator juste en bas. On s&#8217;est bien marrÃ©. Merci pour la visite du quartier.</p>
<p>A RJ Brasseurs, il y avait dÃ©jÃ  pas mal de gens, mais personne que j&#8217;avais dÃ©jÃ  vu au dernier Yulblog encore. Mais plus tard, j&#8217;ai revu <a href="http://www.zecanada.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.zecanada.com/?referer=');">Laurent</a> et <a href="http://keeg.ca/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/keeg.ca/?referer=');">Jean-Luc</a> (et cette fois-ci on a discutÃ© d&#8217;informatique avec Jean-Luc) et j&#8217;ai rencontrÃ© Judith.</p>
<p>J&#8217;ai aussi rencontrÃ© Johanne a qui parlait Christelle. Je lui ai demandÃ© si elle avait un blog. Elle a rÃ©pondu par la nÃ©gative mais qu&#8217;elle en lisait. C&#8217;est la maman de <a href="http://vanou.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/vanou.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Vanou</a> ! J&#8217;ai revu trÃ¨s briÃ¨vement <a href="http://zurants.wordpress.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/zurants.wordpress.com/?referer=');">Ulka</a> et <a href="http://www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/?referer=');">AJ</a>. J&#8217;y ai aussi vu <a href="http://i.never.nu/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/i.never.nu/?referer=');">Patrick</a>, GeneviÃ¨ve, <a href="http://sp4m-mixednuts.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/sp4m-mixednuts.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Sp4m</a>, <a href="http://www.digitalapoptosis.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.digitalapoptosis.com/?referer=');">AndrÃ©</a> et sa femme. J&#8217;ai parlÃ© Ã  <a href="http://www.lightspeedchick.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.lightspeedchick.com/?referer=');">Marie-Jo</a>, qui est dans l&#8217;industrie des jeux vidÃ©os et d&#8217;autres que j&#8217;oublie probablement (excusez-moi, mais je vous reconnaÃ®trai quand mÃªme la prochaine fois).</p>
<p>J&#8217;ai revu <a href="http://www.afroginthevalley.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.afroginthevalley.com/?referer=');">Sylvain</a> avec qui j&#8217;avais participÃ© au premier <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=77">Mashpit</a> de MontrÃ©al. Sylvain avait fait une prÃ©sentation sur les Microformats Ã  la ConfÃ©rence PHP-QuÃ©bec. Il a dit que l&#8217;audience a bien aimÃ© lorsqu&#8217;il a dÃ©montrÃ© comment utiliser les Microformats avec le plugin Operator de Firefox pour avoir facilement la carte de l&#8217;endroit oÃ¹ se passait Yulblog. J&#8217;ai moi aussi Ã©crit sur les<a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=75"> Microformats rÃ©cemment</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Au bar</strong></p>
<p>AndrÃ© avait mis sur le bar du papier et un stylo avec la question traditionnelle pour les rencontres de Yulbloggeurs, qui Ã©tait cette fois: &#8220;Si vous devriez Ã©crire un livre, quel en serait le titre ?&#8221;. Alors, je me suis dis que j&#8217;allais y inscrire un titre moi aussi. Ce faisant, je rencontrai Ã  cÃ´tÃ© du papier sur le bar, <a href="http://www.c-amoiktuparl.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.c-amoiktuparl.com/?referer=');">Benji</a>, avec qui on a parlÃ© de son blog et un peu de politique. Juste aprÃ¨s, quelques amis de Benji sont arrivÃ©s, et j&#8217;ai fait connaissance avec MÃ©lanie.</p>
<p>MÃ©lanie a dit qu&#8217;elle prÃ©parait un film et que c&#8217;Ã©tait pour Kino. Je lui ai dis que je pensais faire la mÃªme chose mais en me donnant une contrainte, celle de n&#8217;utiliser que mon appareil photo numÃ©rique. Parfois, les contraintes forcent Ã  trouver des solutions crÃ©atives. </p>
<p>Refusant les bonbons au dÃ©part, MÃ©lanie a craquÃ© par la suite et elle a eu (entre de nombreux autres) deux coeurs bleus collÃ©s qui portaient tous les deux le texte &#8220;Hold Me&#8221;. &#8220;C&#8217;est pour Ã§a qu&#8217;ils sont collÃ©s&#8221; m&#8217;a-t-elle dit, ce qui Ã©tait marrant. On parla musique de film, et elle m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;elle avait dÃ©jÃ  une collaboratrice potentielle pour son film mais que la collaboration n&#8217;Ã©tait pas certaine encore. Alors je lui ai proposÃ© de lui faire la musique de son film qui sera une comÃ©die avec un sujet marrant. </p>
<p>&#8220;C&#8217;est l&#8217;histoire de quelqu&#8217;un qui ment mais qui arrive quand mÃªme Ã  ses fins.&#8221; dit MÃ©lanie.<br />
&#8220;C&#8217;est autobiographique ?&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Non.&#8221; rÃ©pondit-elle<br />
&#8220;Sauf si tu mens.&#8221; lui dis-je<br />
&#8220;Mais Ã§a tu ne le sauras pas.&#8221; rÃ©pondit MÃ©lanie. </p>
<p>J&#8217;Ã©tais content de te rencontrer et je te souhaite bonne continuation avec ton film que j&#8217;espÃ¨re voir Ã  un Kino prochain. Ne soit pas trop perfectionniste, c&#8217;est un piÃ¨ge parfois &#8211; on a l&#8217;impression de ne jamais finir son oeuvre parce qu&#8217;on veut toujours l&#8217;amÃ©liorer.</p>
<p><strong>I [heart] sweets</strong></p>
<p>Les bonbons eurent pas mal de succÃ¨s. Je n&#8217;Ã©tais pas trop fan des lÃ¨vres chaudes de Deborah (je parle des &#8220;bonbons&#8221; de Deborah, esprits tordus &#8211; oops, mÃªme lÃ  Ã§a sonne ambigÃ¼ !) mais <a href="http://sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/index.php/?p=258" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/index.php/?p=258&amp;referer=');">Deborah, elle, ne s&#8217;en lassait visiblement pas</a>. How you can call these &#8220;sweets&#8221; is beyond me.</p>
<p>Sof a bien aimÃ© les bonbons en coeur, et en a prit plein pour en distribuer Ã  son tour Ã  ses amis. Elle vient de Paris mais Ã§a fait plusieurs annÃ©es qu&#8217;elle vit au QuÃ©bec et elle Ã©tait trÃ¨s souriante.</p>
<p>Je suis allÃ© proposÃ© des bonbons en coeur Ã  deux bloggeuses, dont une, blonde, me rappelle une amie amÃ©ricaine, Nancy, que j&#8217;ai rencontrÃ©e Ã  GenÃ¨ve.</p>
<p>&#8220;J&#8217;offre des bonbons en Ã©change de bisous.&#8221; dis-je facÃ©tieusement</p>
<p><strong>Politique de cÃ©libat urbain</strong></p>
<p>L&#8217;offre n&#8217;a pas trouvÃ© preneuse, mais les bonbons gÃ©neralement oui. Lorsque je lui ai demandÃ© si elle avait un blog elle a rÃ©pondu par l&#8217;affirmative et qu&#8217;elle parlait de politique urbaine. Et son amie, rousse, m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;elle Ã©crivait sur l&#8217;astrophysique. Avec la lueur facÃ©tieuse qu&#8217;elle avait dans les yeux, AndrÃ©e-Anne, la premiÃ¨re, n&#8217;Ã©tait pas trÃ¨s crÃ©dible &#8211; j&#8217;ai (presque) tout de suite vu que c&#8217;Ã©tait une comique.</p>
<p>Alors, j&#8217;ai beaucoup taquinÃ© AndrÃ©e-Anne par la suite en lui disant que la prochaine fois je lui emmÃ¨nerai des bonbons au Valium parce qu&#8217;elle avait trop d&#8217;Ã©nergie pour faire ce genre de farce. AndrÃ©e-Anne est l&#8217;auteur de &#8220;<a href="http://celibataire-urbaine.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/celibataire-urbaine.com/?referer=');">cÃ©libataire urbaine</a>&#8220;. Elle osait juste pas dire qu&#8217;elle est cÃ©libataire. Quoique, la politique du cÃ©libat pourrait Ãªtre le sujet d&#8217;un blog aussi, c&#8217;est plausible.</p>
<p>AndrÃ©e-Anne est trÃ¨s marrante et pÃ©tillante et son blog aussi, et je pense qu&#8217;elle a de fortes chances d&#8217;Ãªtre une des prochaines Yulbloggeuses Ã  avoir son livre issu d&#8217;un blog.</p>
<p><strong>Nuque Tattoo</strong></p>
<p>Juste au moment de rentrer, j&#8217;ai aperÃ§u <a href="http://fannyardente.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/fannyardente.blogspot.com/?referer=');">FannyArdente</a> et CÃ©linie, ce qui m&#8217;a fait plaisir. Aux derniÃ¨res nouvelles, CÃ©linie n&#8217;ose toujours pas avoir son propre blob. Fanny avait le sourire, mais elle Ã©tait un peu fatiguÃ©e, subissant les retombÃ©es d&#8217;un tatouage fraÃ®chement apposÃ© sur la nuque. On a eu trÃ¨s peu de temps pour discuter avant que je ne parte ce qui est dommage mais on se rattrappera sans doute.</p>
<p>En rentrant, j&#8217;ai fait un bout de chemin avec Deborah, Christelle, Jean-Luc et Judith dans la neige.  Avec Jean-Luc et Judith, on a parlÃ© des trois livres dans le mÃ©tro. Je suis rentrÃ© en marchant du mÃ©tro Mont-Royal sur la belle avenue comme d&#8217;habitude.</p>
<p>Now we know why Christelle is so sweet and Deborah is spicy.</p>
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		<title>SXSW coverage, Wired blog, Microformats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Wired&#8217;s blogs, The Listening Post, has many entries covering the South by South-West event in Austin Texas. 
A week ago, I wrote about a practical application of Microformats to improve how you schedule events in an online Calendar previously.
In one entry made yesterday, , Microformats go large, the Listening Post provides some information [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img hspace=15 vspace=15 border =0 align="left" src="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/wp-content/microformats.jpg" width="144" height="36" alt="Microformats logo" title="Microformats logo" />One of <a href="http://blog.wired.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.wired.com/?referer=');">Wired</a>&#8217;s blogs, <a href="http://blog.wired.com/music/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.wired.com/music/?referer=');">The Listening Post</a>, has many entries covering the South by South-West event in Austin Texas. </p>
<p>A week ago, I wrote about <a href="http://www.yashlabs.com/wp/?p=75">a practical application of Microformats to improve how you schedule events in an online Calendar previously</a>.</p>
<p>In one entry made yesterday, <strong><a href="http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/microformats_go.html" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/microformats_go.html?referer=');">, Microformats go large</a></strong>, the Listening Post provides some information about the Microformats presentation at SXSW Interactive. The <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/?referer=');">Operator</a> plugin for Firefox by <a href="http://www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/02/21/operator-source-code-is-finally-available/trackback/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kaply.com/weblog/2007/02/21/operator-source-code-is-finally-available/trackback/?referer=');">Michael Kaply</a> of <a href="http://www.ibm.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.ibm.com/?referer=');">IBM</a> are again mentioned.</p>
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		<title>Yulblog &#8211; Mars 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suite Ã  FrancogÃ©nie, je me suis dirigÃ© vers La Quincaillerie pour le Yulblog du mois de Mars. Yulblog, comme son nom ne l&#8217;indique pas, c&#8217;est une rencontre des bloggeurs de MontrÃ©al. En effet, il faut aller pÃªcher dans Wikipedia que Yul c&#8217;est le code international de l&#8217;aÃ©roport de MontrÃ©al pour bien comprendre que ce ne [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suite Ã  FrancogÃ©nie, je me suis dirigÃ© vers <a href="http://laquincaillerie.ca/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/laquincaillerie.ca/?referer=');">La Quincaillerie</a> pour le <a href="http://yulblog.org/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/yulblog.org/?referer=');">Yulblog</a> du mois de Mars. Yulblog, comme son nom ne l&#8217;indique pas, c&#8217;est une rencontre des bloggeurs de MontrÃ©al. En effet, il faut aller pÃªcher dans Wikipedia que Yul c&#8217;est le code international de l&#8217;aÃ©roport de MontrÃ©al pour bien comprendre que ce ne sont pas des fans de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yul_Brynner" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yul_Brynner?referer=');">Yul Brynner</a> qui se rencontrent une fois par mois.</p>
<p><strong>Je ne suis pas un vieux garÃ§on</strong></p>
<p>La table rÃ©servÃ©e Ã  cÃ´tÃ© de la baie vitrÃ©e Ã©tant vide, je me suis dit qu&#8217;il n&#8217;y avait personne encore. Mais non, ils Ã©taient bien dÃ©jÃ  lÃ , mais timidement, s&#8217;Ã©taient installÃ©s autour des tables Ã  l&#8217;intÃ©rieur. Je m&#8217;avanÃ§ais donc vers le ou les groupes afin de faire connaissance.</p>
<p>Une dame me demanda: &#8220;Es-tu un vieux garcon ?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Je fais si vieux que Ã§a ???&#8221; lui rÃ©pondis-je incrÃ©dule.</p>
<p>Et c&#8217;est ainsi que je rencontrai <a href="http://panthererousse.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/panthererousse.blogspot.com/?referer=');">PanthÃ¨re-Rousse</a>. Je ne sus que bien plus tard que les Vieux GarÃ§ons semblent Ãªtre deux bloggeurs qui se font appeler ainsi.</p>
<p><strong>Film the Film-maker</strong></p>
<p>Ensuite, j&#8217;ai fait connaissance avec <a href="http://keeg.ca/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/keeg.ca/?referer=');">Jean-Luc</a>, mais trÃ¨s rapidement. &#8220;Salut&#8221; sympathique et poignÃ©e chaleureuse, mais je n&#8217;ai pas eu le temps de lui parler plus que Ã§a car j&#8217;ai Ã©tÃ© vite happÃ© par <a href="http://www.zecanada.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.zecanada.com/?referer=');">Laurent</a> qui voulait m&#8217;Ã©terniser dans ses clips. On se rattrappera.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tu as 30 secondes ?&#8221;</p>
<p>S&#8217;ensuivit une interview impromptue que je filmais aussi en mÃªme temps (je fais Ã§a tout le temps, faudra s&#8217;y faire et Ã§a vous Ã©vitera de trop faire le malin). J&#8217;en profitais donc aussi pour interviewer Laurent. Ã‡a le changera pour une fois.</p>
<p>On parla de technopoles car il y a travaillÃ© et moi-mÃªme j&#8217;ai Ã©tudiÃ© et travaillÃ© dans la technopole Rennes-Atalante-Beaulieu et je m&#8217;intÃ©resse au phÃ©nomÃ¨ne de grappes technologiques, surtout celui de Silicon Valley. Il me parla aussi de son activitÃ© en tant que consultant en TIC pour les startups.</p>
<p><strong>Le blog comme un outil de communication sans barriÃ¨res</strong></p>
<p>Me retournant, je rencontrais <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/moilavie/monblogue.htm" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.freewebs.com/moilavie/monblogue.htm?referer=');">Daniel</a>, un menuisier de profession, qui me fit part de son expÃ©rience avec le web, et plus tard avec le blog. Il a Ã©crit un texte poÃ©tico-philosophique sur l&#8217;Ã©volution de l&#8217;homme et de sa cohabitation destructrice avec la planÃ¨te sur son blog et son fils de 15 ans a envoyÃ© le texte Ã  une collaboratrice d&#8217;Hubert Reeves. Celle-ci lui a rÃ©pondu. </p>
<p>C&#8217;est magnifique comment les blogs peuvent faire engager des conversations entre gens dans des domaines aussi variÃ©s.</p>
<p><strong>Toutes les Vanessa sont Ã©vanescentes</strong></p>
<p>Juste aprÃ¨s je dÃ©cidais de parler Ã  une jeune femme qui avait un trÃ¨s beau sourire, le genre de sourire qui illumine le visage mais aussi tout ce qu&#8217;il y a autour. J&#8217;avais mal entendu son nom au dÃ©part, pensant que c&#8217;Ã©tait &#8220;Manu&#8221; pour &#8220;Emmanuelle&#8221; mais en fait, c&#8217;Ã©tait &#8220;<a href="http://vanou.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/vanou.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Vanou</a>&#8221; pour &#8220;Vanessa&#8221;. J&#8217;ai deux amies qui s&#8217;appellent ainsi, et je dis toujours que les Vanessa sont Ã©vanescentes. </p>
<p>Elle m&#8217;a parlÃ© de ses photos qu&#8217;elle met sur Flickr. Elle m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;il y a aprÃ¨s des gens pour rajouter des descriptions. Vanou me refila sa carte, et bien que je n&#8217;arrivais pas Ã  retrouver le nom de la chose, je me suis rendu compte que c&#8217;Ã©tait une &#8216;Moo-Card&#8217; et que j&#8217;avais dÃ©jÃ  dÃ» voir Ã§a sur son blog Ã  elle, en cherchant des informations sur Yulblog. Vanou fait de trÃ¨s belles photos de Yulblog (elle en a fait un panoramique) et d&#8217;elle-mÃªme.</p>
<p>Vanou m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;elle partait pour les Philippines. Et c&#8217;est ainsi que Vanessa, Ã©vanescente, s&#8217;Ã©vanouit vers les pays tropicaux Ã  peine rencontrÃ©e. Mais pas avant que j&#8217;aie eu l&#8217;occasion de revoir son beau sourire. Une autre bloggeuse, <a href="http://francep.ca/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/francep.ca/?referer=');">France</a>, dira dans un commentaire que c&#8217;est une belle personne, et je suis d&#8217;accord.</p>
<p><strong>Origines</strong></p>
<p>Il s&#8217;Ã©tait formÃ© des groupuscules Ã§Ã  et lÃ . J&#8217;allais un moment de nouveau vers la table rÃ©servÃ©e et recontrais alors <a href="http://zurants.wordpress.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/zurants.wordpress.com/?referer=');">Ulka</a> et <a href="http://www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.kingmarketing.ca/weblogs/ajkandy/?referer=');">AJ</a>. Ulka me dit qu&#8217;elle travaillait dans la conception et la programmation Web et qu&#8217;elle faisait aussi de la danse. Mais elle ne m&#8217;avait pas dit qu&#8217;elle s&#8217;intÃ©ressait aussi des arts martiaux. CachottiÃ¨re ! AJ m&#8217;expliquait qu&#8217;il se demandait s&#8217;il n&#8217;allait pas sÃ©parer son blog en deux parties distinctes afin de diffÃ©rencier les Ã©crits professionnels des Ã©crits personnels, chose que je me demandais aussi ces derniers temps. Je leur parlai de mes origines.</p>
<p><strong>Toutes les StÃ©phanie sont jolies</strong></p>
<p>Je repartis alors vers un autre groupuscule. Je ne me souviens pas de ce que j&#8217;ai dit exactement, mais c&#8217;Ã©tait probablement quelque chose de gentiment provocateur. Sur ce, un gars Ã  ma droite, surpris sans doute de ma prÃ©sence, me dit tout de go qu&#8217;il est &#8216;mariÃ©&#8217; en me &#8216;prÃ©sentant&#8217; sa &#8216;femme&#8217;. Je serrais la main Ã  la jeune femme et je me retrouvais devant des yeux trÃ¨s intenses et c&#8217;est ainsi que je fis la connaissance de <a href="http://fannyardente.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/fannyardente.blogspot.com/?referer=');">FannyArdente</a>. Elle se prÃ©senta et Ã©crivit l&#8217;adresse de son blog sur une carte que je lui passais. Bien Ã©videmment, elle n&#8217;etait pas mariÃ©e Ã  l&#8217;autre qui, du coup, voyant que sa tactique dÃ©bile n&#8217;avait pas marchÃ©, s&#8217;est barrÃ© sans demander son reste. </p>
<p>Belle Ã©nergie pour une belle personne. </p>
<p><strong>Toi aussi Ã©cris ton blob sur l&#8217;Intarweb</strong></p>
<p>Je rencontrai alors assez rapidement CÃ©linie, une amie de FannyArdente, mais qui n&#8217;est pas encore bloggeuse. CÃ©linie fait plusieurs activitÃ©s et m&#8217;a rÃ©cemment laissÃ© un commentaire sur mon blog (c&#8217;est bien toi, hein ?). Alors CÃ©linie, on attend tous que tu t&#8217;y mettes maintenant. Fanny devrait t&#8217;encourager Ã  ouvrir ton &#8220;blob&#8221; comme elle dit (Ã§a me fait rire Ã  chaque fois). J&#8217;ai aussi parlÃ© Ã  <a href="http://diesterne.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/diesterne.blogspot.com/?referer=');">JosÃ©e</a>.</p>
<p>J&#8217;ai rencontrÃ© <a href="http://feloshiva.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/feloshiva.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Feloisa</a> avec qui j&#8217;ai beaucoup parlÃ© de plein de sujets diffÃ©rents et aussi un monsieur dont le prÃ©nom m&#8217;Ã©chappe et qui n&#8217;avait pas de blog mais avec qui j&#8217;ai discutÃ© de la culture QuÃ©becoise.</p>
<p>Ensuite, retour vers la table et j&#8217;ai encore une fois filmÃ© Laurent pendant qu&#8217;il interviewait un bloggeur, assistÃ© de <a href="http://christellefv.com/weblog/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/christellefv.com/weblog/?referer=');">Christelle</a> qui tenait la lampe de poche afin d&#8217;illuminer le visage de l&#8217;interviewÃ©.</p>
<p><strong>More Moo-Cards</strong></p>
<p>Je m&#8217;assis Ã  la table, et je discutais un moment avec Christelle qui me laissa choisir une Moo-Card. Je pris celle qui montrait de la neige car Ã§a me rappellera que je t&#8217;ai rencontrÃ©e Ã  MontrÃ©al en hiver.</p>
<p>A ma droite, se trouvait le trÃ¨s sympathique <a href="http://www.jump4jay.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.jump4jay.com/?referer=');">Jay</a>. Il m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;il s&#8217;occupait de copyright autant que je m&#8217;en souvienne, et en voyant son blog, j&#8217;ai compris que nous avions pas mal de centres d&#8217;intÃ©rÃªt communs. Jay m&#8217;a aussi laissÃ© une Moo-Card.</p>
<p><strong>The Montreal Tech League</strong></p>
<p>Une jeune femme assez grande est venue s&#8217;asseoir avec nous, et j&#8217;ai Ã©tÃ© surpris de voir qu&#8217;elle connaissait mon nom losque je lui ai dit mon prÃ©nom. Mais en fait, c&#8217;est normal, puisque c&#8217;est une membre de la Ligue Technologique de MontrÃ©al (MTL) que j&#8217;ai lancÃ©e il y a un mois. J&#8217;ai donc &#8216;reconnu&#8217; Deborah alias <a href="http://sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/sekhmetdesign.thegeekcartel.com/?referer=');">SekhmetDesign</a> et on a beaucoup parlÃ©. Deborah m&#8217;a dit qu&#8217;elle aimerait bien que l&#8217;on fasse plus de promotion du forum de la MTL. On a aussi mentionnÃ© la soirÃ©e Copynight que l&#8217;on aimerait voir. Ã‡a m&#8217;a fait plaisir de te recontrer enfin, Deborah.</p>
<p><strong>MÃªme mÃ©tier, deux points de vue opposÃ©s</strong></p>
<p>Petite discussion ensuite avec <a href="http://ladyzeek.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/ladyzeek.blogspot.com/?referer=');">LadyZeek</a> qui n&#8217;allait pas fort rÃ©cemment, mais aux derniÃ¨res nouvelles elle avait un post des plus positifs. Allez, Ã§a devrait aller maintenant.</p>
<p>AprÃ¨s, je rencontrai <a href="http://songtosing.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/songtosing.blogspot.com/?referer=');">SongtoSing</a>, trÃ¨s marrante et originale, et aussi <a href="http://unautreprof.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/unautreprof.blogspot.com/?referer=');"><br />
UnAutreProf</a>, qui elle Ã©tait trÃ¨s heureuse de son mÃ©tier d&#8217;enseignante, charmante aussi.</p>
<p>FannyArdente, gÃ©nÃ©reuse, Ã©tait presque prÃªte Ã  ramener toutes ses amies en voiture, mais finalement elle a enlevÃ© son manteau pour replonger encore un fois dans l&#8217;arÃ¨ne des Yulbloggeurs. Beaucoup d&#8217;Ã©nergie, j&#8217;ai dit.</p>
<p><strong>Night in the city</strong></p>
<p>Je raccompagnai Feloisa jusqu&#8217;Ã  l&#8217;avenue du Mont-Royal et elle me parla du lancement du livre du blog &#8220;<a href="http://taxidenuit.blogspot.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/taxidenuit.blogspot.com/?referer=');">Un Taxi la Nuit</a>&#8220;, ce qui est quelque chose d&#8217;assez remarquable. </p>
<p>Je rentrai Ã  pied en savourant les derniers moments de l&#8217;hiver QuÃ©becois sur la belle avenue.</p>
<p>C&#8217;Ã©tait une belle soirÃ©e, j&#8217;y ai fait de belles rencontres. Au plaisir de vous revoir, bloggeurs MontrÃ©alais.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heri comments in a previous post about technologies we both saw at DemoCampMontreal1 &#8211; <a href="http://www.sygenics.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.sygenics.com/?referer=');">Sygenics</a>&#8216; <a href="http://72.55.133.9/sygen02/technology/background.asp" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/72.55.133.9/sygen02/technology/background.asp?referer=');">Evolution</a> and <a href="http://www.evonium.com/en/index.htm" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.evonium.com/en/index.htm?referer=');">Evonium</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://www.evonium.com/en/products/index.htm" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.evonium.com/en/products/index.htm?referer=');">DARWIN</a> which relies on Evolution (all Montreal technologies). I started replying as a comment, but when I saw the length of the response, it turned out that it would be best as a post as he suggested, so here it is.</p>
<blockquote><p>#  heri Says:<br />
March 9th, 2007 at 8:47 am e</p>
<p>hi there<br />
I am quite impressed with the reports you are writing, itâ€™s live blogging!</p>
<p>back to the point though, i was among the guys who didnt really understand the real benefits of darwin and evonium &#8211; and the implications of dynamic business information systems. i just have academic courses on business processes reengineering, but compared to your experience, i guess its nothing, so i was wondering if you would care write a post about it, whatâ€™s so good about live and dynamic business systems?</p></blockquote>
<p>Hi Heri, it&#8217;s not nearly as live blogging as I would like it to be though. It did take some time for me too to understand the actual benefits and the implications. Thanks for the compliment.</p>
<p>The faster you can review your business process and the integrated Information Systems at their core, then the more agile you are compared to your competitors and towards the ever faster changing business environment.</p>
<p>Your organization then is a dynamically evolutive or adaptative organism. This is why the teams we saw used &#8216;Evolution&#8217;, &#8216;DARWIN&#8217; and &#8216;Evonium&#8217; as their names and trademarks. The metaphor however, rather refers to adaptability within a single organism instead of evolution through mating of two organisms (and cross-over + mutation).</p>
<p>With this architecture, Business Process Re-engineering can be more easily performed, as one of the bottlenecks in revising your enterprise data model is how relational database work.</p>
<p>New data model design => data-cleansing code => data-migration => new data access methods (C.R.U.D.) => new business logic => new forms to access them => new documentation => new training, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>The less time you take to do that, the more agile you are to step up your business process within the competitive industry (e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_forces" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_forces?referer=');">Porter&#8217;s Five Forces Model</a>) and environment.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what these technologies enable you to do: build business agility, adaptability. Also, the less time I take at any point within my business stack to revise things, the better I can optimize my profit margin (e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain?referer=');">Porter&#8217;s Enterprise Value-Chain</a>).</p>
<p>Now to further explore what is possible within this natural evolution metaphor,  I can envision a Genetic Algorithm applied to a whole business stack to explore the whole solution space of all business processes as per a specific industry or business function.</p>
<p>I could even start with some Global Best Practices within the gene pool and launch the algorithm, monitor the results to find the optimal Business Process.</p>
<p>As I said the possibilities are amazing. You&#8217;re right, this should be a new post. If you have any additional questions, I&#8217;d be happy to oblige.</p>
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