January 2007
What are you doing in 2007? [Frogsmoke.com]
(via)The idea is to register yourself and as many friends as possible for one of many proposed “new year’s resolutions”, such as taking a first-aid course, distributing second-hand clothes, visiting elderly people, or recycling printer cartridges.
Tu fais quoi en 2007?
It's necessary to register yourself at the website if you want a day with Adriana Karembeu and the Red Cross. The one who register the most wins the day out with Adriana.
December 2006
LISTEN TO THE CHRISTMAS BROADCAST VIA THE ROYAL PODCAST
LISTEN TO THE CHRISTMAS BROADCAST VIA THE ROYAL PODCAST
The latest 'episode' of the Royal Podcast will be the Christmas Broacast (The Queen's speech), which will be available from 1500 GMT on Christmas Day 2006.
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Del.icio.us Widget Released
(via)They’ve launched a website widget that displays the how many times that site has been bookmarked in Del.icio.us, along with popular tags. We’ve added the widget script below in this post. We may add it permanently to the site as well, in our effort to continue to provide full visibility into TechCrunch statistics.
November 2006
AtomApiSpec - Blogmarks.net - Trac
Blogmarks Atom API Specification
Can Daily Motion Challenge YouTube?
by 2 othersThe French video-sharing site already has 16 million page-views a day. Can it resist its giant U.S. rival by going international?
script.aculo.us 1.6.5
by 1 other, 1 commentI’ve just pushed script.aculo.us 1.6.5 for your download pleasure. It’s a maintenance release that adds a few tweaks here and there—read on!
Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine, the powerful standards-based scripting language engine in Adobe® Flash® Player, to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.
moo.fx - V2
by 69 othersmoo.fx2 Introduces a lot of new stuff: beginning with Fx.Style, to modify any chosen CSS property, then Fx.Styles, to modify any number of CSS properties at once. Those two are the most powerful effects, and if you're hardcore enough, the ones you'll ever need. They are infact included in the basic package, moo.fx.js.
IE7: Were they ready? - Blog - Etre
by 1 other (via)Thirteen of the FTSE 100 homepages that we tested were broken in IE7 - although not significantly so. Problems ranged from warped page layouts (Alliance and Leicester) to small presentation glitches (Hanson).
October 2006
Advice Goddess Blog
Paris transit has a campaign that includes posters on bus shelters to encourage a little more...politesse.
Rue Rude: The Mayor is killing Paris. Oh, and me, too.
(via)A city where there are no elevators or escalators into most metro stations, and where a current "respect" campaign pictures as public enemy number one a mother trying to get onto the metro with a baby stroller. How dare she? (The mayor is a confirmed bachelor.)
Another Limited Rebellion: Spotted in Paris part I: Homo Modernus
(via)Their site is chock full of entertaining (even for folks who don't speak French) videos, cartoons, and interactive elements.
Spot-On: Hot Spots: MetroSpot
The French, it seems, are rude. Even to one another. Being chic, they have turned to the Internet to solve this problem and, as a result, providing us with today's HotSpot.
David Lebovitz Archives: October 2006 Archives
(via)The RATP has started a campaign to try to get Parisians to respect each other when riding the métro, including avoiding the noisy, smelly pitfalls of eating a hamburger, not jumping the turnstiles, talking too loud or swearing, having inane, annoying cell phone ring-tones (yeah!), and not putting your stinky feet on the seats.
the amazing adventures of zarbi meuf: Arty farty week
(via)As usual, the French approach is nothing short of original -create a website illustrating the effects of bad behaviour and to encourage all-round respect in public transport
Weblog - Charles Bremner - Times Online: Respect on the Métro
The RATP has produced clips featuring passengers, psychologists and staff who explain their problems. Unpleasant incidents, we are told, are usually the result of "a chain of misunderstandings". The transport bosses have also ranked acts of uncivic behaviour and they want passengers to join in an internet debate -- on five set themes no less. The idea is to come up with ideas for improving the transport experience.
London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog
Et pendant de temps là, en Angleterre ....
Adverblog: Advertainment for social responsibility
(via)Internet can do a lot when it comes to social and citizen responsibility, and the new website launched in France by RATP (public transportation company in Paris) is one of the best examples I've ever seen.
Parisist: Morning Commute in Paris [en]
(via)Parisist is looking forward to the results of RATP's new campaign [fr], "L'Homo Modernus." Hopefully it will remind riders that a more civilized Metro ride is good for everyone.
ParisDailyPhoto: Making the Metro a better place
2 comments (via)To combat some bad behaviour (insults towards the Metro personnel, graffiti, riding without paying...) the RATP (Régie Autonome des transports parisiens - the Paris transport authority) has just launched a communications campain.
Google Press Center: Press Release
(via) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.
