The Juicy Cow

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Being pretty disapointed by eBay, I had a go to other online marketplaces; Gumtree and Craigslist. They are both free and have quite a large community. They are also much easier to use than eBay and you can have your items for sale quickly.
So I put an ad on Craigslist here to sale my camera […]

I instinctively managed to stay away from eBay for a while. Unfortunately I had to create an account and sell stuff on it recently. Interesting experience from a Web 1.0 pioneer. Here are my notes:
1. It’s incredibly complicated: It took to Rai and myself a good 20-30 minutes to put our first item for […]

Unless you were exiled on a very remote island (yep, more remote than Australia) for the last few months, you probably saw one of those:

I personally don’t think the name merging thing will be so good. Especially when you ask yourself a few quick questions:
- What brand recognition does Microsoft have?
Here are the keywords that […]

Google Reader is definitely part of my daily tasks. It’s a great tool that brings me about 300 items every 24h and I checked it a couple of times per day. Direct consequence is that I spend more time scrolling over items on Google Reader that I’d like to! And when I’m happy with most […]

I bumped into Mick Liubinskas (Tangler’s Chief Customer Officer) last saturday night during the opening of the Sydney Festival 2008. Mick and I exchanged a few words quickly and I said to Mick that I was gonna have a look to Tangler’s new release.
For those that don’t know yet what is Tangler (where have you […]

If you were wondering where to get the best deal on a brand new Apple Ipod Nano you will be happy to find this price study that I just finished
There is a few surprises here, as it is not necessarily where you expect the Ipod Nano to be cheap that you can actually […]

I’m working on a web service project that involves pictures, a lot of pictures. So I’ve been thinking on what was the best way to store information about a picture? I found 3 possibilities:
1. Store the information in a database. It’s the most obvious solution. When you need the information, you get it from the […]

How many people are using Flickr? How many are Pro (subscribers) users? How many pictures do they have in their accounts? Do they fav pictures? How many contacts do they have?
First of all, what is Flickr? Flickr is defined on Wikipedia as:
“A photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which […]

During my daily surf on the web I, from time to time, come across content that are worth being shared. Sometime it’s a stupid, but funny, video on Youtube, sometime it’s an amazing picture found on Flickr, some other time it will be a nice article…
But sometime it’s something truly captivating, something that have a […]