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OpenPhoto works similarly to Flickr, Smugmug and other photo sharing services with one major difference: you retain ownership and give OpenPhoto access to use them. All photos, tags and comments are stored in your personal cloud accounts with companies like Amazon, Rackspace or Google. This means you can easily switch between OpenPhoto services, use more than one at a time or stop using them altogether while retaining all of your photos, tags and comments.

That’s the thing about delightful details: they’re not just another thing you can add on top. Unless you sweat the details all the way through the user experience, the ones that delight quickly get drowned out by the ones that constantly annoy. I hope someone at Amazon will take that to heart.

Get thee to a physical bookstore, if you can find one, or to Amazon’s or Apple’s online dispensers, you won’t regret it.

Amazon ou Apple ? Pourquoi référencer les deux boutiques de livres électroniques les plus fermées du marché ? Elles seules ont le livre en question ? Non, toutes les boutiques généralistes du marchés l'ont. Elles ont besoin de publicité ? Hahahahahaha. Non, c'est juste de la propagande par omission, ou par aveuglement devant la réussite de ces systèmes clos, donc confortables.

They estimate Amazon would cost them 4 times much.

Archos a déve­loppé pas mal de briques logi­cielles spé­ci­fiques pour ses tablettes au des­sus d’Android. Ama­zon a fait de même, avec notam­ment le navi­ga­teur Silk, même si ce der­nier est pro­ba­ble­ment d’origine externe, genre Opera.

Of course, where there’s feudalism, there’s droit de seigneur. The price for security will be, probably must be, a loss of privacy, anonymity, and control to Amazon.  Right now, Amazon’s terms of service provide some contractual anonymity to users, but as a technical matter Amazon has total visibility into everything that happens on a Fire tablet.  That visibility is very likely necessary for security, and it is damn sure valuable for commercial purposes.  So it’s hard to imagine that it won’t be used for both purposes.

Apple reintermediated the music industry, Sky reintermediated the TV industry, Netflix threatens to reintermediate the cable TV industry, Etsy reintermediated the local craft market, Ebay reintermediated the jumble sale and Facebook reintermediated our friendships.

That’s the problem with those US companies: they always behave as if nobody else has ever thought of anything even remotely similar, even when the concept is years old. I wonder if Opera has thought to patent the proxy browser.

The Apple Way.

I was a doubter until I owned one, but now I’m convinced that e-ink readers have tremendous value even in the post-iPad world.

Alleluia !

One of the great things about Open Data and OpenStreetMap is that you can control what the map looks like. You are not limited to just what the data looks like and you can customise it yourself. I have made a custom Mapnik style file that's optimized for Amazon Kindle display.