August, 2010

17 Aug 2010

Open Your Data and Make Business

In Montreal Transportation Open Data, I was writing:

Give the opportunity for people to develop commercial (or not) applications helping/driving users to order tickets or use more the service.

The Bixi system has been inaugurated in London this summer. According to the Guardian, Transport For London, decided to release the data to encourage developers to create innovative applications.

Transport for London (TfL) is suddenly getting the free data/app development religion. Having just relaxed its rules to allow commercial

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12 Aug 2010

Gérer le conflit entre spécifications

Ce matin, sur twitter, Aurélien Levy me pose une question intéressante :

@karlpro question W3C : qui est chargé de refuser une passage en CR qd un standard va à l’encontre d’un autre ex : #html5 #wcag2 #longdesc

La réponse n’est pas tout à fait qui, mais comment. Petit rappel : La phase Candidate Recommendation est le moment où un groupe de travail annonce au monde que la spécification est suffisamment mature pour tester sur les implémentations. Il… …

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9 Aug 2010

Montreal Transportation Open Data

Yann has written a blog post on why it is good for transportation companies to share their data (French). Go read it. He has forgotten brand and commercial reasons.

When I was looking at the Canadian landscape for Open data, I was wondering about Montréal Open Data. Since …

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9 Aug 2010

Comments Are Blog Posts

The Pheromone Lab is a space for experimentation in the company. But it is also a space for exploration into itself. I was discussing with Olivier on how we could improve the engagement of people participating to this space.

So far, from Pheromone André Bélanger, Arnaud Blaszkowsky, Daniel Desrosiers, Karl Dubost, Jean-François Dumas, Rémy Giard, Benoit Goyette, Chrystian Guy, Céline Seeman, Sabine Séguin, Olivier Théreaux have… …

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5 Aug 2010

bixar: find your bike in Montreal

bixar is a mobile augmented reality (3d) layer helping people finding

  1. bike stations with free docks (can you park?)
  2. available bikes in each station (can you get a bike?)

for Montréal, Canada.

We like to experiment stuff and play with tools available around us. Most of the time, someone (a developer, someone in bizdev, etc) will get an idea or have a need, and ask Could we do that? Many of us at Pheromone are users… …

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5 Aug 2010

bixar: trouver son vélo à Montréal

bixar est un calque (3d) de réalité augmentée afin d’aider les montréalais à trouver

  1. les stations de vélos avec des places libres (puis-je me garer ?)
  2. les vélos disponibles à chaque station (puis-je obtenir un vélo ?)

pour Montréal, Canada.

Nous aimons expérimenter et jouer avec les outils autour de nous. La plupart du temps, quelqu’un (un développeur, une personne aux développements des affaires, etc.) aura une idée ou un besoin, et demandera Pourrions nous le… …

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