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 …
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… …
bixar is a mobile augmented reality (3d) layer helping people finding
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… …
bixar est un calque (3d) de réalité augmentée afin d’aider les montréalais à trouver
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… …
There is an international trend requesting access to open data. That is good. Open data helps organizations, companies and governments to create an environment of trust. There is a guide for open government data which is written by W3C.
To really promote open data, it is necessary to use the appropriate licence. Glen Newton looked at the licenses of different data sets published by canadian cities. The terms of the… …
CssVerificator is a Rails application which checks 5 CSS items for performances. This prototype has been created by Benoit Goyette.
Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella) recently outlined the Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS. After a survey, Nicolle Sullivan found out that
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Le module que vous pouvez découvrir à cette adresse : http://fellinlove.rd.pheromone.ca est une visualisation de données Twitter résultante de la requête : I fell in love with.
Banal sur le principe, cet exercice trouve sa singularité si je vous avoue qu’il est pour moi une première en matière de développement Javascript.
Fort d’une bonne demie douzaine d’années d’expertise dans le développement flash et l’utilisation de l’ActionScript, me voilà parachuté dans l’univers prototypale du JavaScript. Univers occulté par la puissance… …
In the course of a week-long benchmark study of portals around the world we ran recently for one of our clients, I stumbled upon the home page for the Yahoo! portal in spain.
Notice anything unusual? What fascinates me is how the top third of the page mentioned locations in no less than three countries. How? Why?
Near the top-left of the page, I can see an icon depicting a Canadian flag, along with a link to… …
Hier, Pheromone a publié une annonce d’emploi pour le poste de directeur du développement. J’ai relancé l’annonce sur twitter :
You love the Web? & you want to take over my job. Be the Dev Director at @AgencePheromone http://bit.ly/dtl7Pd #job #montreal
Juste après Jonathan Bélisle a réagi en posant une bonne question que l’annonce ne donne pas.
What are the challenges / innovation opportunities ?
Clarification : Je ne… …
We often forget about the very basic steps for creating a project. There are no small achievements, each step in a process is rewarding by itself and help to build trust in what you are doing. I was reading again the section on Linked Data from Tim Berners-Lee‘s Design Issues.
Linked Data is part of the process of publishing data in a way that it will be useful for anyone else. It is all about creating