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Mt. Gox, one of the original Bitcoin trading sites, has shut down its withdrawals system, citing problems related to transaction malleability (more on that shortly).

Mt. Gox wrote on their site that this problem has forced them to shut down their withdrawal services:

“We apologize for the sudden short notice. All bitcoin withdrawal requests will be on pause, and the withdrawals in the system will be returned to your Mt Gox wallet, and can be reinitiated once the issue is resolved.”

So what happened?

Put simply, Mt. Gox has been suffering from a sort of hack that makes its transactions vanish, allowing aggrieved customers to come back and ask for their money again. In fact, however, these vanished transactions are properly processed and the customer is paid twice.

To explain it without going into too much detail, transaction malleability means that transaction – 1 bitcoin sent from Mt. Gox to User A, for example – could be changed so that Mt. Gox wouldn’t be able to track that the transfer ever happened. The transfer as it stands is added to the blockchain, the ledger of all bitcoin transactions, and User A gets the BTC. BTC transfers are actually chains of data leading back to the original coin in question’s “birth.” Each transaction has its own ID or hash which is based on the data inside the transaction – the recipient and the sender in most cases. These IDs are unique.

A renegade node can modify the transaction, whenever it sees certain data pass through the network. This modified transaction still says Mt. Gox sent User A 1 BTC, is still a valid transfer, but has a completely different hash. This new, modified transaction essentially cancels out the previous transaction (if the renegade node is fast enough to spread its data to the confirming nodes) and Mt. Gox doesn’t have any way of proving that the transaction occurred because it records transactions based on the hash. User A goes back to Mt. Gox complaining they didn’t get their cash and the exchange has no recourse but to send another payment… and another… and another. At least that’s how this would work in theory.

In practice there is no absolute way to tell if this is widespread abuse. Mt. Gox is definitely losing money — you don’t just shut down your customer’s accounts on a whim — but the bitcoin community is up in arms saying that Gox is foolish for not maintaining its own unique method for identifying its own transfers. Writes one Reddit user, “All these dipshits needed to do was to write their gox-specific tx id as a message on the transaction. They already know the recipient address, so if someone tried to say that they didn’t receive their funds, it would be completely trivial to look at the recipient address, and find the transaction with the gox-specific tx id attached at the time their system said that they sent the tx.” In short, Mt. Gox should have a better accounting system. Many major players are calling Mt. Gox’s claims bogus at best and alarmist at worst.

As a result of this shutdown, exchange trackers have removed Mt. Gox from their listings citing the spread of fear, uncertainty, and doubt by Mt. Gox admins. Bitcoin fell to a low of $572 and rebounded to about $670 today.

No one is happy with Mt. Gox.

“Bitcoin is in a period of transition, and Mt.Gox represents the sort of boot-strapped legacy infrastructure the market has left behind. Unnecessary and confusing panics like this are yearly occurrences, the one thing Mt.Gox has going for it is momentum and name recognition,” said Adam Levine, Editor-in-Chief at LetsTalkBitcoin.com. “How much value remains in that name recognition is dubious at best, that’s been the case now for over a year.”

Whether the exchange returns to full capacity at this point is in question. One of the oldest and strangest bitcoin exchanges may have just pulled its own plug.

Further Reading
Why nobody can withdraw bitcoins from one of the currency’s largest exchanges/Quartz
Mt. Gox Blames Bitcoin – Core Developer Greg Maxwell Responds/ CryptocoinsNews

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Même si faire des erreurs est une source d’apprentissage des plus bénéfiques lorsque l’on est entrepreneur ou startuper, il est néanmoins préférable de se réserver pour de belles erreurs qui font bien mal (et apportent beaucoup) plutôt que pour des erreurs basiques déjà faites par des milliers de personnes ;) C’est pourquoi CreativeBloq a listé les dix erreurs les plus courantes rencontrées par les startups et les a illustrées par des citations d’entrepreneurs reconnus.

1- Ne pas avoir de vision ou d’objectifs clairs

2- Se disperser

3- Considérer que le design passe après le reste

4- Construire un produit qui n’intéresse personne

Oui, ça ressemble à une lapalissade.. mais c’est pourtant vrai. Heureusement, il existe des moyens simples de tester l’attrait de son futur produit auprès de sa cible à moindre coût.

5- Courtiser les investisseurs, pas les clients

6- Ne pas être assez à l’écoute

7- Lancer son produit trop tard (ou trop tôt)

Nouvelle lapalissade.. pourtant vraie également. Là aussi, les approches permettant de recueillir du feedback très en amont du lancement permettent  lorsqu’elles sont utilisées à bon escient de lancer avec le bon timing un produit qui n’est ni trop ni trop peu travaillé diminuant ainsi le risque d’être à coté de la plaque.

8- Ne pas demander de l’aide lorsque c’est nécessaire

Ne soyez pas timides, il n’y a aucune honte à avoir besoin d’aide. N’oubliez pas non plus de donner de votre temps et de votre personne pour aider les autres entrepreneurs (sinon qui vous aidera vous ?).

9- Ne pas avoir de stratégie de croissance

10- Embaucher les mauvaises personnes

Mieux vous vous connaitrez, connaitrez l’ADN de votre startup et transmettrez une vision long terme solide, moins le risque sera élevé.

En conclusion

Voici 10 astuces qui vous permettrons de vous en sortir comme un chef !

1. Définissez l’ADN de votre startup.
2. Allez à l’essentiel, toujours.
3. Pensez design dès le démarrage.
4. Testez vos hypothèses et validez vos idées le plus rapidement possible.
5. Construisez un business, pas un pitch.
6. Arrêtez de vendre et commencez à écouter.
7. Trouvez le bon réglage entre MVP et perfection.
8. Trouvez un mentor et construisez vous un réseau susceptible de vous aider.
9. 90% de l’entrepreneuriat consiste à commercialiser, bousculez vous.
10. Tout est toujours une question de personne, embauchez les meilleurs.

L'article Startups : 10 erreurs courantes qui peuvent être évitées. a été initialement publié sur haikusages.

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Dropbox has raised a massive $250 million funding round, valuing the company at $10 billion according to the Wall Street Journal. The new funding round is led by a BlackRock fund, according to the WSJ, which cites “two people familiar with the deal” as the source of the report.

This is actually the second time that Dropbox has raised $250 million: It did so in 2011 in a round that included Goldman Sachs, Sequoia, Index Ventures and Accel Partners. Back in November, a rumor about an additional $250 million raise put the valuation of the company at a supposed $8 billion, which, based on various revenue estimates, could have been viewed as anywhere from expensive to cheap.

When news of the raise was first circulating last year, revenue for the cloud storage company was rumored to be in the “hundreds of millions of dollars” range according to BusinessWeek, which helps justify the company’s huge valuation. Other companies in the same ball park in terms of worth pre-IPO include Twitter, which was valued at $10 billion back in May, 2013; Google, which went public with a $2.7 billion valuation; and Box, which is a direct Dropbox competitor and had a valuation of $2 billion when it raised $100 million late last year.

The fact that Dropbox raised at a $10 billion valuation instead of $8 billion could indicate that the round was competitive, with third parties bidding for a chance to scoop up Dropbox shares. And, naturally, at a valuation that rich, Dropbox is placing itself far up the IPO queue.

Prior to this raise, Dropbox has collected $257 million in funding. Provided that the WSJ has the new capital story correct, Dropbox will have raised a total of over half a billion dollars.

Dropbox’s new capital dwarfs the $100 million that its traditional rival Box recently absorbed, perhaps granting it a competitive edge as both companies look to expand their core business and diversify their product lines.

Also included in this round are existing investment partners, the WSJ says, but it’s unclear who exactly was involved at this stage. We’ve reached out to Dropbox to find out more about the reported funding and the backers in the round, and will update if we find out more.

Update 12:06PM – A second incident of an Uber car being attacked by up to 20 men has been reported by Bertier Luyt, confirmed by Uber. 

Update 12:16PM – no less than a dozen confirmed incidents in Paris & Lyon, including “flat tires, eggs, broken windows,” confirms Uber.

The right to protest has always been powerfully upheld in France – whether it’s protesting an immigrant’s right to healthcare, the closing of a factory, or even Taxis, who have perfected the art of making their voice heard; however, how much is too much?

It seems that protest turned to guerrilla warfare this morning as one Uber driver, carrying Eventbrite CTO Renaud Visage & Kat Borlongan from the airport to Paris, was attacked by multiple assailants, who allegedly, after smashing one window and slashing two tires (as seen in the photo), as well as defacing one side of the car with glue, attempted to enter the vehicle. Borlongan says their Uber driver manoeuvered the two out of the situation before anything could happen, leaving the three stranded on the shoulder of the freeway.

“Now on the shoulder of the freeway waiting for help, freezing and with my hand bleeding from the splintered glass. Thanks for the big welcome home, Paris. ” – Kat Borlongan

There’s no confirmation that this attack came from the protesting taxi drivers; however, that certainly seems to line up with the sentiment felt by taxi drivers these days – unwarranted hate.

Update: Uber’s GM of France Pierre-Dimitry Gore-Coty has commented on the incident:

“Uber strongly condemns this morning’s incident where two of our users and our driver were confronted with severe violence.

First, we are very glad all involved are safe and ok. Also, we would like to praise our partner who has shown great courage and professionalism, who focused on getting his customers out of a very challenging situation.

That the taxis chose to use violence is unacceptable, that they chose to strike is their business. However, Parisians also have a choice when it comes to moving around in their cities, and today’s incident will certainly not tempt Parisians into choosing a taxi for their next ride. Safety, reliability and choice, not violence, are what continues to draw customers towards VTCs.”

Taxi drivers today are protesting against the likes of Uber, and against what they consider to be a government that refuses to see things their way, according to an official press release. The only problem is that this protest comes less than a month after the French government caved in to the Taxi union demands to enforce the 15-minute law, not just for new users, as was originally intended, but for all users of Chauffeur apps.

It’s a question of credibility, according to Le Figaro’s Yann La Galès, who thinks the Taxis are looking to have their cake and protest the lack of the aforementioned cake, too.

Meanwhile, one Chauffeur App startup, Allocab, says it won’t take the protest, or the 15-minute law, lying down. According to Frenchweb, the startup is already pushing legal action through against the 15-minute law – we spoke last week about how the “law,” which actually is a Presidential decree, not voted on by the legistlative body, may be ruled invalid, due to the fact that decrees cannot take affect if they change the balance of competition – I think that’s an easy argument to make.

For now, what’s left of the fleeting reputation of Taxi drivers may have just been dwindled down to nothing but shattered glass and a flat tire.

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Sure, we see photos of real-life adaptations of animated characters online all the time, but rarely do these pictures truly capture the essence of the these characters. Ealier this week I stumbled on Ryan Astamendi‘s absolutely stunning series of photos featuring models dressed as Disney princesses, and even though they’ve been out for more than a year, I’ve never seen them online before. So without further ado, I’ll let you guys gaze at the perfection of these photos. Many thanks to Ryan Astamendi for giving me the permission to post these on Geeks are Sexy!

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Back in April, I wrote about these chainmail leggings by Vancouver, Canada-based seller MITMUNK.

Now, they have robot/mecha-inspired leggings and OMGIWANTTHEM.

The XML vs. JSON debate is one of the bigger topics in developer circles during the last decade. Although XML has several advantages, such as being a defined standard since 1996, JSON’s lighter approach has proved popular. ProgrammableWeb’s historical API data shows that XML as a data format peaked in mid-2009, but that JSON has been rising for the last eight years.

The chart above shows the percentage of APIs added to the ProgrammableWeb directory that support XML or JSON back to late 2005. In September 2009, 72.66% of all APIs were XML, the highest it ever achieved. In that same month, JSON was 28.31% of the directory. Math whizzes will recognize those two percentages add up to just over 100%. That’s because many APIs support both JSON and XML. A minority of APIs support alternative formats or have no formats listed in the ProgrammableWeb directory.

The early growth of JSON came from APIs adding support for the newer format or launching with both XML and JSON support. However, a shot of growth in late 2010 and early 2011 was driven by a notable number of new APIs turning their backs on XML. At the time, 20% of new APIs did not support XML at all.

Each of the last six months has seen a new record for the percentage of JSON APIs in the directory. As of mid-December, JSON APIs accounted for more than 47% of the entire directory. Considering that this includes the mid-2000s, when XML ruled, it’s notable that JSON may pass XML sometime in 2014.

Indeed, if you look at the data for 2013, January and February were the only months when more than 50% of new APIs supported XML. By contrast, almost every month saw more than 50%—and as high as 70% in August—of new APIs support JSON. On the year as a whole (as of mid-December), 60% of APIs added in 2013 supported JSON vs. 37% for XML.

The story of JSON over XML isn’t new—it’s clear this was a long, consistent assault by the new format on the older standard. Also, it’s obvious than many API providers and consumers still find value in XML data. As we enter 2014, keep an eye on the JSON APIs and XML APIs lists in the directory. In which month do you think JSON will pass XML?

Adam DuVander is Developer Communications Director for SendGrid and Contributing Editor at ProgrammableWeb. Previously he edited this site and wrote for Wired. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Par Barbara Chazelle, Directions Stratégie et Prospective, France Télévisions

Guy Kawasaki a été formel : impossible de prévoir ce que le web sera dans 10 ans. A 10 mois, peut-être. Faute donc de pouvoir vraiment répondre à la question que nous pose la dixième édition de la conférence Le Web’13 à Paris "The next 10 years", un certain nombre d’intervenants nous ont livrés quelques clés pour réussir, aujourd’hui et demain.

1 Ecouter son coeur

Que vous soyez investisseur ou entrepreneur, une belle histoire commence au niveau du cœur.

D’après Tony Tyan, fondateur de Cue Ball, 70% des start-up ont démarré sans business model ; la plupart des entrepreneurs ont une passion qu’ils savent aussi nuancer pour faire des choix. « Le but prévaut sur le produit, et le produit passe avant le profit ».

Pour Guy Kawasaki, « la meilleure idée, c’est de créer un produit que l’on a envie d’utiliser soi-même ». Et d’aller plus loin encore en préconisant de ne jamais demander à autrui ce qu’on ne ferait pas soi-même.

Pour l’anecdote, c’est parce qu’il n’arrivait pas à trouver de taxi pour se rendre à l’édition 2008 de LeWeb que Travis Kalanick a eu l’idée de créer Uber, l'application star de l'année aux USA, qui vous met en relation avec des chauffeurs privés. La société est aujourd’hui valorisée plus de 3,5 milliards de dollars.

2 Etre smart

Cela n’a rien à voir avec un nombre de diplômes selon Tony Tyan. Pour lui, l’intelligence se mesure dans la capacité d’un individu à reconnaître les tendances, les modèles, les temps. Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures) par exemple, ne s’intéresse pas tant aux technologies qu’aux grandes tendances qui influencent la société de manière générale.

Le succès d’une entreprise dépend aussi du temps à passer à effectuer des recherches, à tirer les leçons des expériences passées.

La chance n’est pas un facteur en soi. Pour Tony Tyan, il s’agit davantage d’une attitude, savant mélange "d’humilité, de curiosité intellectuelle et d’optimisme".

3 Penser réseaux

Fred Wilson nous prédit la fin de la lente bureaucratie pyramidale au profit de réseaux pilotés par la technologie, à l’image de Twitter qui a empiété sur le terrain de la presse traditionnelle dans la transmission d’info. Le système de hiérarchie « top down » ne sera plus efficace dans l’ère à venir.

De même, Jeremiah Owyang, le fondateur de Crowd Companies, nous annonce que nous entrons dans « l’âge de l’économie collaborative; au même titre que les médias se sont socialisés, le monde réel va se démocratiser. »

De nombreuses start-up sont aujourd’hui déjà financées grâce au crowdfunding (financement participatif), qui permet de lever des sommes toujours plus importantes. Demain, les particuliers créeront eux-mêmes les produits dont ils ont besoin sur des imprimantes 3D et les vendront ou les échangeront dans des communautés, des réseaux. Les gens auront ce qu’ils veulent des uns des autres.

Pour subsister à cette nouvelle vague de désintermédiation, les entreprises devront permettre à la foule de collaborer. Selon Jeremiah Owyang, « les marques doivent apprendre à créer des places de marché plutôt que ne pensez qu’à vendre leurs seuls produits. »

4 Savoir prendre des risques

Enfin, tout acteur du web doit faire preuve de courage. Le courage de se lancer, mais aussi celui de persévérer et d’évoluer.

Nick D’Aloisio, le très jeune fondateur de Summly, racheté par Yahoo pour une somme estimée à quelques de 30 millions de dollars, le système éducatif ne vous prépare prépare pas à l’entreprenariat, qui n’est souvent même pas présentée comme une option.  Si l’échec peut faire partie de l’aventure, elle ne doit pas être vue comme dramatique, mais comme un moyen d’apprendre.

Guy Kawazaki quant à lui, encourage les talents nationaux à innover et à ne pas créer de nouvelles versions locales de produits américains. Et d’aller au bout de son idée en développant des prototypes qui parlent bien mieux du service que n’importe quelle présentation.

Enfin, les entrepreneurs (du web) sont pour Tony Tyan semblables à des coureurs : ils doivent tout à la fois être de bons sprinters et de bons marathoniens.

Games are quite literally the gifts that keep on giving – each time you play, the joy of the gift reaffirms itself. Here’s a quick breakdown of some of the best games to give this holiday. Any gamer should consider these a welcome digital stocking stuffer!2

Eclipse

Who It’s For: Universe conquerors; fans of Twilight Imperium who have lives; people who are tired of Risk.
What It’s About: Players assume the roles of alien races and attempt to control the known galaxy.
Why It’s Cool: Big Daddy Creations has done the impossible: taken one of the current darlings of the board game world that is easily the best-in-class of 4x games, and manage to deliver a best-in-class app that captures the intricacies of the board game while simplifying set up and tear down. With randomly generated galaxies and variable player powers that demand different strategies, there’s enough in this game to keep you busy for months, and the excellent UI design allows you to focus on what counts: crushing your opponents into space dust.

Lords of Waterdeep

Who It’s For: People who play D&D for politics instead of kobalds; Eurogamers looking for new stuff to build.
What It’s About: As one of the anonymous Lords of Waterdeep, players outmaneuvering each other while hiring adventures to do their bidding.
Why It’s Cool: Lords of Waterdeep is an excellent introduction to worker placement games, and Playdek’s fantastic translation is a great introduction to Lords of Waterdeep. The key concepts are easy to grasp, but the variable actions available with each game and the hidden agendas of each player keep things fresh play after play.

Agricola

Who It’s For: Future Farmers of America; Settlers of something other than Catan; anyone still playing Farmville.
What It’s About: Farming isn’t just for food anymore – build the most impressive fields to win!
Why It’s Cool: Agricola is a name often bandied as an example of what modern design is all about, and sits at the other end of the worker placement spectrum from Lords of Waterdeep. You’re not only competing for resources to make your own farm bigger and better, you also have to make sure you can feed the small army it takes to keep your fields full and your sheep shorn. If you don’t think farm building can be a cutthroat enterprise, you’ve obviously never played.

Pandemic

Who It’s For: Andromeda Strainers; doomsday preppers; fans of first responders.
What It’s About: Four terrible diseases threaten to obliterate humanity – can you cure us all before it’s too late?
Why It’s Cool: A shining example of how to use technology to have fun face to face, Pandemic plays equally well with one through five humans on the same iPad. As a cooperative game, the players either win or lose as one, cohesive unit. The animations really offer the feel of playing a board game, and the music provides just the right atmosphere of tension as you race against time and the frailty of your fellow man.

Small World 2

Who It’s For: World conquerors; anyone who things Flying Dwarves are funny; people who are tired of Risk.
What It’s About: Randomly-generated fantasy races vie for control of a tiny kingdom.
Why It’s Cool: Easy to learn but difficult to master, Small World 2 features a staggering combination of races and powers to ensure that no two games are the same. With boards that vary in size with the number of players and accessible multiplay options, Small World 2 is a game with incredible replayability – especially with additional races and powers available via IAP. (Note to the budget-minded – as long as the player who starts a game has the expansions, everyone involved can benefit!)

Tanto Cuore

Who It’s For: Fans of Japanese maids; Dominion junkies looking for a fix; employees of the 1%.
What It’s About: A deckbuilding game about hiring maids that’s a great replacement for Dominion. No, really.
Why It’s Cool: Love them or hate their pricing models, Goko has well and truly demonstrated that they just can’t get the iPad client for Dominion out the door. While we wait – probably forever – there’s Tanto Cuore. If you can accept the theme (and let’s face it, Dominion isn’t long on that itself) you’ve got a decent deck-building game that features most of the same mechanics and scratches most of the same itches, but innovates just enough to be arguably more interesting than the base game that clearly inspired it. With the typical Playdek polish, you can’t go wrong.

Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies

Who It’s For: WWII aviation buffs; tactical wargamers; people who don’t like the free to play model.
What It’s About: Relive history as the air forces of the two major players in the WWII Pacific Theater.
Why It’s Cool: With a complex flight model that manages to get simplified without losing any tactical depth, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies is a dream come true for fans of classic aviation. A series of single-player missions teaches you the ins and outs of the game’s hidden intricacies. Once you’ve mastered them, design your own dream squadron and take the fight online – and thanks to the lack of IAPs or game-stopping timers, you won’t have anything standing between you and aerial superiority.

Warhammer Quest

Who It’s For: People who play D&D for kobalds instead of politics; people who wanted more strategy out of Diablo.
What It’s About: Set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe, a pack of heroes viciously murder every dungeon-dwelling creature they can find.
Why It’s Cool: Games Workshop is on a roll releasing digital versions of their classic boardgames, and Warhammer Quest is probably the crown jewel. All the elements of the boardgame we remember for our childhood are here, though some of it is locked behind the dreaded IAP paywalls that have become all too familiar on the platform. Still, with everything in vibrant color and an incredible attention paid to every conceivable detail, there’s a lot to love here even if you stick to what’s included in the base game.

Magic 2014

Who It’s For: Fans of Harry Potter; CCG strategists tired of the winner-buys-all grind; any gamer in the last 20 years.
What It’s About: Take your deck filled with creature summons and magic spells through a series of one-on-one duels to prove yourself the mage supreme of the multiverse.
Why It’s Cool: Magic the Gathering is a deep, rich game with nigh infinite strategic options – and a price tag to match. In a neat compromise, this app features a series of pre-prepared decks that you can unlock, and cards that you can earn as you win with them, allowing you the strategic depth of deck building without the need to constantly shell out for new cards. New this year is the sealed mode, which allows you to build your own deck from a pool of random cards and take on other homebrew builds online. The app serves as both an introduction to Magic and a great alternative for casual fans who love the strategy but hate the collecting.

Plague, Inc.

Who It’s For: Grinches; sociopathic mysanthrops; Pandemic fans curious how the other half lives.
What It’s About: Assume the role of a super virus, and mutate your way to the top of the gene pool as you infect and destroy the entire human population.
Why It’s Cool: Plague, Inc. is the only game on this list not new this year, but it’s still worth a look for a couple of reasons. The first is that it’s one of the rare games in which the goal is to destroy all of humanity that is both strategic and fun. The second is that the developer is clearly committed to it – the game debuted in May of last year, and in that time has received a staggering 18 updates (an average of about one per month if you’re keeping score) that have implemented more options, new gameplay modes, and content galore. Almost all of it can be unlocked through play, and none of the purchases are necessary to win or to enjoy the experience. If the holiday stress has you wanting to kill someone, don’t stop there – kill the whole human race!

That’s it for this roundup, but that’s by no means it for great board games on iOS! The iTunes store goes freezes for maintenance on 12/21, but you’ll still be able to buy awesome games, and we’ll do our best to keep you in the know of any last-minute awesomeness that sneaks under the wire.

Quand Freemobile a débarqué, je me suis tout de suite abonné. Malheureusement, malgré ma patience et ma tendance pro-Free, j'ai été obligé de lâcher l'affaire, car niveau data, ce n'était pas ça. Grosse déception. Quand j'allais à Paris, c'est bien simple, mon forfait data était impossible à utiliser et niveau conversation téléphonique, ça coupait assez souvent. ("Ah, ça a coupé. T'es chez Free ?")

Je ne sais pas si j'ai été victime d'une mauvaise expérience isolée ou si la majorité des abonnés étaient dans le même cas que moi. Mais peu importe, car depuis je me suis barré et je suis quand même beaucoup plus détendu du mobile même si je paye plus cher.

Quoi qu'il en soit, je ne sais pas où ça en est en ce moment et si le service s'est amélioré, mais peu importe... Je continue à apprécier l'esprit rebelle de Xavier Niel qui fait du business en secouant bien le cocotier des FAI et opérateurs mobiles.

Pour moi le lancement de la 4G chez Free est une bonne nouvelle. Je ne retournerai pas chez eux, car je considère que j'ai été assez patient et je n'ai pas forcement envie de remettre le couvert comme à l'époque de ma mauvaise expérience, mais une chose est sûre, ça permet de faire bouger la concurrence donc indirectement j'en profite ou profiterai bientôt.

Pour moi Free est ce qui est arrivé de mieux sur le marché des FAI et de la téléphonie mobile.

Puis cet aprem, j'ai vu un tweet d'Arnaud Montebourg, notre ministre du Redressement productif (assisté par "l'amie ricorée" des entrepreneurs, Fleur Pellerin) qui l'a ramené avec un tweet qui m'a totalement scotché :

Sérieusement, Arnaud, mais qu'est-ce t'en sais ? Où sont les chiffres ? Où sont tes arguments ?

Ce dernier avance le spectre de la destruction d'emploi, mais moi je vois juste quelqu'un de réfractaire à l'innovation, au progrès, à l'évolution économique du secteur de la téléphonie mobile. Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais cela permet aux autres opérateurs de continuer à s'entendre et continuer à sucer les Français en abusant de leur position dominante.

À un moment, j'ai même cru que c'était un tweet sponsorisé pour Orange qui a d'ailleurs RT la connerie.

Comment peut-on imaginer REDRESSER quelque chose avec une telle mentalité ? C'est du grand n'importe quoi.

D'ailleurs depuis qu'il est en poste le Arnaud, j'ne suis pas sûr qu'il a redressé grand-chose. Et je ne parle même pas de productivité quand on voit comment la France se noie dans la lenteur administrative et l’inertie de ceux qui nous gouvernent.

Le truc le plus énorme, c'est que Xavier Niel a répondu à Montebourg, en lui mouchant le nez avec de vrais chiffres, remettant à sa place d'enfant ignorant, un ministre qui n'a que faire du pouvoir d'achat des Français, de l'innovation, de l'économie numérique, de la concurrence et qui semble motivé par d'autres intérêts (mais lesquels ?) qui nous dépassent, nous pauvres cons. Le tweet clash initié par le ministre lui est revenu dans la tronche puissance mille, et ça a du lui faire tout drôle. Et même si les chiffres de Niel sont faux et que la stratégie commerciale de Free fait disparaître des emplois, je ne vois pas ce qu'on peut y faire. On ne va pas rester à l'âge de pierre. Faut évoluer...

Plus le temps passe et plus j’exècre ce genre de politiciens qui bouffent à l’œil sur nos impôts, sans jamais avoir vraiment bossé et qui l'ouvrent avec un aplomb et un toupet hallucinant en condamnant à tout va, le cul dans leur canapé ce que font les entrepreneurs de la "net-économie" en France. Qu'ils soient petits ou grands. Connus ou inconnus. Bons ou mauvais.

Brefs, politicards de tout bord, lâchez un peu Twitter et mettez-vous un peu au boulot pour les Français.

Cet article merveilleux et sans aucun égal intitulé : Quand Montebourg tente un tweet clash, ça fait un gros FAIL ; a été publié sur Korben, le seul site qui t'aime plus fort que tes parents.

Square did indeed reveal something new today as promised, and it’s a credit card reader design update, which is what we suggested was most likely yesterday when they teased the news. The new reader is thinner, and has a design that’s supposed to improve success rates at reading cards. Finally, the 3.5mm audio jack plug has been redesigned to play nicely with many more devices.

The new Square Reader is heading to store shelves as of next year, but it’s available now for free via the official Square website. In case you’re wondering just how thin it is, it’s about the depth of the iPhone 5 or 5s, so that actually is size savings of about half versus the thickness of the original version. It’s also got sharper edges, and honestly does look like a big improvement, even if the news isn’t earth-shattering.

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It’s a fact, there are plenty of geeks out there who are big fans of caffeinated hot beverage, namely coffee and tea. With this in mind, I’ve scoured the Internet for some of the coolest mugs I could find, which would all make some great gifts for the coffee/tea loving geeks in your life, or even for yourself!

–Critical Hit D20 12 oz Ceramic Mug w/ Lid

–The “DON’T MAKE ME ANGRY” Mug

–The Crusader Helm Mug

–The Holy Grail Black Knight Helmet Coffee Mug

–Ceramic Ninja Mug

–The Retro Ray Gun Rocket Mug – Pew Pew Pew!

–Ninja Mug #1

–Laboratory Beaker Mug

–Official BBC Doctor Who 11 Oz Heat Reveal/ Disappearing Tardis Mug

–Build-On Brick Coffee Mug

–Rubik’s Cube Mug

–The Harry Potter Cauldron Mug

–Camera Lens Mug

–3D Narwhal Coffee Mug (North America | Europe)

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Ce kit chargeur universel vous permet de recharger en toute simplicité 4 appareils USB en même temps (iPhone, iPod, PSP, PDA, Mobile...).



Ultra compact et se glisse très facilement dans un sac de voyage.

Amazon made headlines Sunday night when it announced it was working on small drones that could someday deliver customers packages in half an hour or less. But the e-commerce giant isn’t the only company researching how to harness the potential of small unmanned aircraft: The Verge has learned that the world's largest parcel service, UPS, has been experimenting with its own fleet of flying parcel-carriers.

"The commercial use of drones is an interesting technology."

Sources familiar with the company’s plans say it has been testing and evaluating different approaches to drone delivery. Asked for a comment, a company spokesman said that, "The commercial use of drones is an interesting technology and we’ll continue to evaluate it....

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La nouvelle vient d'être officialisée par @Hélène Brevet, Viadeo a fermé son API à Scoop.it (entre autre ??).

Suite à un message de @Frédéric DEBAILLEUL sur la communauté  des Scoopiters francophone de Google+

"En effet nous venons de désactiver le partage sur Viadeo.
Je vous explique : nous avons remarqué depuis 15 jours maintenant que le partage sur Viadeo ne fonctionnait plus, que vos scoops n'apparaissaient plus dans les timelines Viadeo. Nous nous sommes rapprochés des équipes de Viadeo pour en connaître la raison et ils nous on fait savoir qu'ils avaient changé de stratégie quant à l'ouverture de leur API. Ils ont coupé l'accès à leur API, on ne peut donc plus vous proposer le partage sur Viadeo"

[Edit] @Hélène Brevetnous précise en commentaire que c'est une stratégie globale sur l'API de Viadeo et pas propre à Scoop.it.