A few weeks ago, I started to use HootSuite. A very nice web tool to manage your social media “life”. Within a single interface, you can connect to your different Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare accounts. Before, I was using TweetDeck. I liked it a lot… But it was an Adobe Air application. Cute and everything. But desktop application… I don’t like desktop application. I live on the web, so everything I use needs to be on the web! HootSuite meets all my needs AND is a service on the web 
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Every year, I’m attending Seneca College’s annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium. This year will be no exception. However, I will now be attending as a speaker. Our workshop was accepted and it will be a real pleasure to talk about ImpressCMS and show how easy it is to install this CMS, install a few modules and, with the help of the imBuilding module, create a completely new module in a matter of minutes!
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Recently, I updated my iPhone to OS 4. A lot of cool new features! My personal favorites being Multitasking and Folders. However, a few days after the update, something strange started to occur: I couldn’t use the landscape view. When I turned my iPhone, the display didn’t rotate with it. Very annoying!
At first, I didn’t understand why. Then, I saw an icon I had never seen before in the status bar (top right):
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A while back, I blogged about switching from a desktop email client to the Web version of GMail, or in my case, Google Apps. And after trying it, I could seriously never go back to a desktop client application.
Emails are at the very root of my professional life. It needs to be “in the cloud” and accessible 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
I don’t want to download them locally, update or troubleshoot a local application, and I don’t want a large overhead. And let’s face it; none of the email clients currently on the market can even remotely compete with GMail’s outstanding features like threaded emails, filters, labels and all those cools Labs features.
Unfortunately, this has also created a serious problem.
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This week is the very first Open Source Week in Montreal!
Also known as MonDev, it’s a celebration of Open Source technology and community in the Montréal area. The whole week is populated with outstanding events!
Open Source Demo Camp at Brutopia it tonight at 6PM. Then tomorrow, Wednesday, there are three not-to-be-missed events: WebCom Montreal, WebCamp and StartupDrinks. On Thursday, it’s the long awaited Make Web Not War, followed by the Make Web Not War Party!
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I have been in Chicago for 2 days now for CMS Expo 2010. Let me say that this is an outstanding conference! Very well organized, a lot of great speakers, a lot of great people, great food, great everything!
For me, it was a wonderful opportunity to finally meat with someone I’ve been working with for the past 5 years, Steve Kenow, one of the initiators of the ImpressCMS project. We have been working together since in the XOOPS days and started the ImpressCMS adventure together with other great people. We’ve been talking to each other nearly every week for the past few year, but yet again, I had still to meet with him! This was accomplished this week!
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Well, I got in Montreal Trudeau Airport at 2 PM today. My flight was at 4 so, more time then actually needed. But when I got to the Porter desk, the lady informed me that the boarding would start at 4:40 PM. 4:40 ? But my flight is at 4 ! Well no, seems I was wrong. Flight is at 5! So I could actually arrived at the airport at 4 instead of 2… I really should check my tickets correctly next time!
Not a big deal though, because now I have a little more time to accomplish some outstanding work that needs to get done by tomorrow. And I have time for this blog post .
When I pass through security, I beeped, even though I had no metal in me pockets. So I had the privilege of a real corporal search. The lady agent asked me if I preferred this to be performed by a man or a woman. Funny world we are living in 
. The good thing is, if I had something illegal on me, they would have definitely found it. Somehow I feel more secured .
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The next few days will be awesome, I’m sure! Why ? Because, ImpressCMS will attend its very first North American conference, CMS Expo 2010 in Chicago from May 3rd to May 5th. We will have a booth there and intend to meet with as many people as possible. First, to let people know about our great Community Management System, but also to make as many connexions as possible! As I mentioned in one of the very first blog post I wrote on ImpressCMS Blog, people connecting with each other, this is the driving force of an open source project.
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I Love Rewards is the leader in results-driven reward and recognition solutions. I have the privilege of working with them in a few project at INBOX and I absolutely love what they do. I was recently made aware of this video they did a few months ago. A truly inspiring video.
If you’ve been on this blog before, then you already saw a few mentions about 37signals, creator of Basecamp, Highrise and other great products. They recently launched a book: REWORK. It’is the logical sequel of their first book “Getting Real”, where they were exploring the key concepts which they have learned and used to build their products. That first book was focusing on building an application more then anything else. But many of the concepts they were applying at building a great product, they also applied at a higher level, management a successfull business. So a few years later, it was time for REWORK to go out, a summary of pretty much every interesting concept they explored in their blog “Signal vs. Noise”, in their talks, their conferences, etc…
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