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I believe being a polyglot is nothing but an advantage, and that polyglots are normally the best programmers. As a matter of fact, I challenge myself to learn a new programming language every year. Last year it was Scala, this …

If you have been following the media industry over the last years, you’ll have surely realized that traditional media is struggling. Even before the crisis, advertisers have started switching from offline to online, and now with the crisis we see …

Looking back at the past 20 years of the history of the internet, one can realize that what we call today the web has changed dramatically, but that one thing is certain: it will continue to evolve. Gone are the …

We know the social web needs real-time event notifications, and that polling sucks. Some are wondering whether we can implement it using asynchronous messaging, ala Pub/Sub. The Publish/Subscribe is an architectural paradigm allowing asynchronous messaging from one sender (publisher) to …

Because that’s really what it is. Somebody that was not fitted and loosing big (aka Western Cultures) has just started a new game of Monopoly, and you and I are not getting any of the money in this new game. …

One of the most useful recent additions to my Gnome desktop has been Beagle, Nat’s personal desktop search daemon. I also discovered that in Ubuntu Feisty there is a deskbar that traces all the actions you do from your desktop, …

I came some time ago across an interesting buzzword, mashboards, which is really starting to show that at the end of the day what really matters is systems integration. Where we had mashups in the B2C world, we now …

Scarcity is a requirement for a good to be economic. However, http://www.onethousandpaintings.com/ offer something that could be offered by thousands of artists out there. So, it is not scarce. Or is it?

Painting a Miro or a Picasso is only …