Un peu comme une météorite qui entre dans l’atmosphère, les Humanoïdes associés n’en finissent plus de se désintégrer avec le départ des plus grands titres et auteurs de leur catalogue. Cette fois c’est Ptiluc qui quitte la maison de Métal Hurlant pour Soleil. Le 10e volume de Rat’s, sa série phare, y est annoncé pour juin 2009.

30 ans après sa parution aux Humanos, le mythique Arzach de Moebius va avoir une suite en 2009, chez Stardom, maison d’édition perso de l’auteur. C’est ce que révèle actuabd.com, qui annonce que la nouveauté sera une sorte de “Blueberry mâtiné d’héroïc fantasy”. D’ici là, nous pourrons toujours nous plonger dans les carnets de l’auteur avec Inside Moebius, dont le cinquième tome est attendu ce mois-ci.

Bien loin des considérations de TF1, Étienne Davodeau nous raconte les aventures extraordinaires de Lulu, ménagère de moins de 50 ans. Mariée, trois enfants, à la faveur d’un énième refus dans sa recherche d’emploi, elle décide de prendre des vacances sur un coup de tête. Un voyage en dehors de sa routine. En spécialiste des fictions du réel, l’auteur nous procure dans ce premier tome une aventure singulièrement zen, tant tout semble couler de source pour sa femme au foyer moyenne. Un bol d’air frais qui donne envie, tout simplement.
En deux mots : Partir un jour
D’Étienne Davodeau, aux éditions Futuropolis - 80 pages - 16 €

The New Republic:
Why Arizona Dems Don't Want Napolitano at DHS  —  Arizona governor Janet Napolitano looks likely to be secretary of Homeland Security (thank you, leaky transition team).  Though many are applauding her candidacy, her pending appointment is raising anxiety among Arizona Democrats.

When we first wrote about Genwi a year ago, it was asocial feed reader with content feeds that could be organized by different categories (blogs, news, videos, music, podcasts) and shared with your friends. Today, it is relaunching with a completely new design that takes into account what your friends are doing across the Web as well.

You can think of Genwi as a combination of Google Reader and FriendFeed with sophisticated search, auto-categorization, and filtering features. As before, Genwi is a super RSS feed reader. It suggests feeds by category, or you can add your own (via search or by importing an OPML file from another reader). You can also invite your friends by giving Genwi permission to match its members to your contacts in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, AOL, Outlook and elsewhere (although it does not have Facebook integration yet).

Once you do that, you can track your the social activity of your friends across the Web, just like on FriendFeed. Anytime a contact does something on Twitter, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, or other social media sites, it appears on Genwi. (The other supported services are Vimeo, Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, Pownce, Yelp, Upcoming, Last.fm, iLike, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Jaiku,Webshots, Picasa, Smugmug, Zoomr, Furl, Reddit, Mixx, and Diigo).

So far, so what. But Genwi has some interesting features that could push the ball forward in the Web filtering/lifestreaming game. Genwi treats the Web as a collection of information objects. An object can be a blog post, a video, a streaming song, a photo, a Tweet, a Digg. Genwi lets you grab the objects you care about either directly through RSS feeds or indirectly by paying attention to what your friends do and presents them all in a manageable, personalized, searchable feed. Explains Genwi co-founder Killian P. McKiernan:

At first a web page was a published document. It has evolved to a collection of objects—wading through all of these objects by searching and loading pages may not be the most efficient way to consume them. It might be better to bring in all the objects that matter to you and create a context enabling you to filter and directly consume what is most interesting.

Once all the objects are ingested into Genwi, it starts to do some interesting things with them. Each post/video/song/object can be filtered by type and category, as well as by most popular, highest rated, and most recent. They can be rated, shared, or added as a favorite. All of your friends favorites show up in your wire (which is what Genwi calls your personal super feed). The most popular items are available in a public wire, which can also be sorted in various ways. When you search for things, favorite items across the network come up top, adding an element of social rank to the searches.

There are other features that noteworthy as well. You can follow other people’s wires without having to “friend” them. If you wan to send a “quick post” to all your friends, it will appear Twitter-like in all of their feeds (FriendFeed has something similar called “messages”). It handles all sorts of media quite adeptly. And it does a better job of showing what’s popular on the service in a very granular fashion.

On the downside, the site takes longer to load than FriendFeed and is not quite as responsive. But it has a few tricks worth checking out.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

The iPhone is undoubtedly one of the best mobile phones to watch videos on. So, how about adding TV functionality to your trusty little Apple wonder phone? If you’ve got a TV Tuner installed on your Windows-running PC, then you should check out the OrbLive 2.0 app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It allows you to stream videos, music, and yes, even TV shows direct from your PC to your handy-dandy iPhone so you can enjoy limitless media content just as long as you’re connected to the internet. Think of it as a more powerful and versatile version of Simplify Media.

Unfortunately, it’s not free. The Orb 2.0 for the iPhone app is now available for download at the App Store and comes with a $9.99 price tag, but it’s free to try out. The desktop client which you’ll need to install on your PC, however, is free of charge, but it’s currently limited to Windows only. So if you’ve been dying to add TV functionality to your iPhone, this is as good as it gets at the moment.

[product via engadget]

What happy people don’t do - Watch TV... I wonder if the Cornfield Electronics paid for this study? :)

More:

Super TV-B-Gone kit, the happy maker. A great beginner kit to get started in electronics, hack it, mod it, be happy.

Filed under: Cellphones

Nokia adds support for Lotus Notes in Symbian S60 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.