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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
4 hours and 33 minutes ago
Véritable franchise
cross-média, Blue Dragon a bénéficié
des services d’Akira Toriyama, le créateur de Dragon
Ball Z, lors de la conception du jeu vidéo sorti sur Xbox 360. En
février 2009, Kana sort le premier tome de l’adaptation en manga signée
Tsuneo Takano et mise en image par Takeshi Obata, le
dessinateur de Death Note. Cerise sur le gâteau, la série
ne compte que 4 tomes, vendus chacun 6,25 euros.

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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
8 hours and 34 minutes ago
Depuis son départ
de la direction de Série B chez Delcourt, le dessinateur Olivier Vatine
n’a eu de cesse de tisser des liens avec la Chine en multipliant les voyages sur place et
en signant la préface du collectif Chroniques de Pékin
chez l’éditeur de manhua Xiao Pan. Mieux, toute l’iconographie de sa nouvelle structure Comix
Buro, proposant différentes affiches et sketchbooks d’auteurs, tourne
autour de la révolution communiste chinoise.
Pour le début d’année 2009, le créateur
d’Aquablue revient avec deux nouveautés pour le compte de
la maison d’édition au triangle rouge. 9 Tigres, du nom
d’une mystérieuse société secrète, propose de découvrir
les aventures d’une tueuse à gages chinoise intraitable. Scénariste sur
l’album, Vatine collabore sur ce titre avec le dessinateur pékinois Jian
Yi, déjà vu dans le fameux collectif sur la capitale de l’empire du
Milieu.
Nommé Le Petit livre rouge (du story-board), le second titre
réunira les différents story-boards réalisé pour plusieurs
séries du label Série B. Réputé pour ses découpages
dynamiques, ce livre complété par un entretien avec Olivier Vatine devrait faire
des heureux contre 25 euros. Les amateurs de cuisines internes ou les apprentis auteurs pourront
ainsi découvrir les secrets de fabrication, décortiquer le travail du board et voir
les différences avec les pages définitives sur les titres
Arcanes, Tao Bang, Golden
Cup, Angela et celui de 9
Tigres. À l’heure de la globalisation et des collaborations entre
auteurs issus de différents continents ne parlant pas la même langue, le story-board
s’avère être une étape idéale pour se faire comprendre…
Une idée (presque) révolutionnaire !



Les images sont © Guy Delcourt Productions - Vatine - Jian Yi.


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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
8 hours and 35 minutes ago
Lancé il
y a 14 ans, dans la collection Soleil de Nuit, Lanfeust a fait bien du chemin depuis ses
débuts confidentiels jusqu’à la conquête des Étoiles ! Alors que
Lanfeust Odyssey, le nouveau cycle, se prépare, que penser de la saga d’Arleston et
Tarquin, véritable porte-étendard des éditions Soleil ?
Peut-on parler de classique concernant Lanfeust de Troy ? Cela
paraît une évidence. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’il s’agit d’un des plus
grands succès de la BD contemporaine, que cette réussite s’accompagne
d’une indéniable qualité, et que cette série aura amené un
nombre incroyable de jeunes lecteurs à s’intéresser de plus près
à cet art dont on dit qu’il est le neuvième. La sortie de l’ultime
album du deuxième cycle est peut-être l’occasion de revenir sur ce qui
s’apparente à un véritable phénomène. Reprenons depuis le
début… Lire la
suite...
La magie fait partie de la vie quotidienne des habitants du monde de Troy : chacun possède
en effet un pouvoir, qu’il soit utile ou non, terrifiant ou ridicule. Dans le paisible
village de Glinin vit un jeune homme du nom de Lanfeust dont la capacité est de faire
fondre le métal d’un seul regard : il sera forgeron. Mais un jour, par un de ces
tours que nous joue le hasard, il met la main sur une épée dont le pommeau,
sculpté dans l’ivoire d’une bête fabuleuse, le Magohamoth, lui
confère un pouvoir absolu et illimité. Il devra donc quitter sa vie de simple
villageois pour vivre celle d’un héros malgré lui et affronter un être
vil et cruel doué de pouvoirs semblables aux siens : Thanos le pirate.

Lanfeust
de Troy réunit tous les éléments que l’on peut attendre
d’une série de ce type : un groupe d’aventuriers aux caractères
tranchés et dissonants, une quête mystique dans un univers médiéval,
des héros qui subissent de multiples épreuves, des bêtes sauvages et
improbables, des méchants très... méchants, et bien sûr
d’accortes donzelles pour égayer le paysage (mais pas seulement !).
Tout n’y est certainement pas parfait. Par moments, Arleston donne l’impression de
s’égarer, ne faisant pas beaucoup avancer son histoire dans certains tomes. Mais une
chose est sûre : il sait où il va, même s’il prend parfois des chemins
détournés pour nous y conduire. Et sa façon de raconter son histoire, bien
que fort classique et codifiée, est rarement prise en défaut : l’action,
ponctuée de scènes plus humoristiques, se déroule sans véritable
temps mort, les dialogues foisonnent de jeux de mots et les textes narratifs ne manquent jamais
d’ajouter une note d’humour. De quoi nous rappeler la véritable raison
d’être de l’histoire : divertir ! Cet humour qui, il est vrai, n’est pas
toujours des plus fins, naît surtout de la confrontation de personnages aux divergences
plus que marquées. Abstraction faite de l’éternelle naïveté de
Lanfeust, sur laquelle les auteurs ont tendance à trop s’appesantir, chacun tient
bien son rôle, à commencer par le troll Hébus, véritable trouvaille
d’une série qu’il semble parfois porter à lui seul.

Le dessin répond lui aussi aux canons du genre. Accompagné aux
couleurs d’Yves Lencot puis de Claude Guth, Tarquin ne
cesse de s’améliorer au fil des tomes, ses hésitations du début
faisant place à une maîtrise de plus en plus assurée. Il en ressort
malheureusement une qualité inégale sur l’ensemble de la série.
Après tout, qu’importe ? C’est là le signe d’une époque
où l’on pouvait s’enthousiasmer pour une série dont les auteurs
n’étaient pas encore des professionnels accomplis. On remarque d’ailleurs ce
phénomène chez d’autres dessinateurs. Citons au hasard le travail
d’Olivier Ledroit sur les Chroniques de la Lune
Noire, de Tiburce Oger sur Gorn, de
Danard sur Marlysa, d’Aouamri
sur Mortepierre ou, dans un genre complètement différent,
de Lewis Trondheim sur Lapinot et les carottes de
Patagonie.
Quoi qu’il en soit, l’ensemble est cohérent et démontre
l’implication des auteurs dans leur série fétiche, une Å“uvre
qui, si elle ne plaira pas forcément aux acharnés de l’underground les plus
obtus, constitue une véritable référence couronnée par le
succès que l’on sait. Une réussite telle qu’ils ne pouvaient pas
s’arrêter en si bon chemin... De Lanfeust des Étoiles à Trolls de Troy,
des Conquérants de Troy à Gnomes de Troy, Arleston a en effet mis en place
l’un des univers de la BD qui comptent le plus de séries parallèles. Simple
mine d’or à exploiter ou véritable source d’inspiration intarissable ?
La qualité de ces différentes suites varie en tout cas du très bon au
franchement décevant.

Lanfeust des Étoiles s’achève donc avec ce
huitième tome, et ponctue un cycle qui aura connu des hauts et des bas.
L’intérêt suscité par les aventures intersidérales de Lanfeust
aura fortement varié d’un album à l’autre, entre de nombreuses
trouvailles à l’efficacité redoutable et une fâcheuse tendance à
se perdre en chemin à force de trop vouloir en faire. Malgré ces quelques
égarements, c’est sur une note résolument positive que se referme Le sang des
comètes, car Arleston aura fait preuve d’une grande audace dans
plusieurs de ses choix : faire vieillir certains de ses personnages, et ainsi jouer avec la
relativité temporelle, voire en faire disparaître d’autres, qui pouvaient
pourtant paraître indispensables. Se montrer audacieux dans une série
établie, la clé du succès ? Toujours est-il que Lanfeust des
Étoiles s’en sort admirablement, bien plus en tout cas que
d’autres séries qui viennent de connaître leur dénouement. La fin trop
longtemps attendue, et donc forcément décevante, de Gorn
et des Chroniques de la Lune Noire, à qui la surprise et
l’originalité font cruellement défaut, s’érige ainsi en parfait
contre-exemple.
Que faut-il attendre du nouveau cycle à paraître, et qui verra Lanfeust quitter les
Étoiles pour retrouver son monde de Troy ? Seul l’avenir nous le dira. Ce qui est
sûr, par contre, c’est l’attachement inébranlable de toute une
génération pour un personnage qui, comme tous les héros d’antan, ne
meurt jamais. À moins que…
David Wesel
· Lanfeust des Étoiles #8, Christophe
Arleston, Didier Tarquin, Éditions Soleil, 12,90 €, en
librairie.
Les images sont © MC Productions - Arleston - Tarquin.


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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
8 hours and 35 minutes ago
Oubliez les autres collectifs du moment, c’est Sky
Doll Lacrima Christi qu’il vous faut. Parce qu’en plus
d’être un livre-objet magnifique – le moindre petit
élément semble travaillé –, les planches de
Benjamin, Fernandez, Barbucci,
Smudja, Khaled ou Bourgoin rivalisent
d’inventivité et d’effets spectaculaires. Un régal pour les yeux.
Côté scénar, si toutes les histoires sont loin d’être
passionnantes, chacune renvoie aux papesses Agape et Ludovique et, à leur façon,
creuse le background des personnages et de cet univers à la fois commercial et
religieux.
En deux mots : Requiem graphique
Collectif aux éditions Soleil - 72 pages - 14,95 €

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L'actu en patates -
8 hours and 54 minutes ago
J’ai eu envie de faire cette planche après avoir répondu à un petit
questionnaire du site “Ecolo-Info”, qui était curieux de connaître
l’avis de quelques blogueurs d’horizons variés sur le thème de
l’écologie et notamment sur le grenelle de l’environnement.
Et vous, qu’auriez-vous répondu ? Êtes-vous des écolos
convaincus, responsables ou militants ? Avez-vous, comme moi, votre mauvaise conscience (pas
forcément rousse et moustachue) qui vous suit à la trace ? Ou est-ce que,
finalement, vous vous en fichez pas mal ?
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Read/WriteWeb -
27 minutes ago
pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/150-red-star.jpg" /In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web
gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of
2008./p pThis is the first in a series of posts we'll publish over December, listing our choices
for strongthe top web products of the year/strong. Then at the end of December, we'll post a
strongTop 100 list/strong - which we'll be promoting over 2009 and opening up at some point for
public voting. Without further ado, let's jump into the top 10 Semantic Web products of 2008./p p
align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12774amp;cb=12774'
target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12774amp;n=12774' border='0'
alt='' align="right" //a/p pEarlier this month we posted a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_semantic_apps_to_watch_one_year_later.php"an update
to 10 Semantic Web applications/a that we have been tracking for a year now. Some of those make
this list, as well as some from our follow-up post a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php"10 More Semantic Apps
to Watch/a. We also have a couple of other products in this list, which for one reason or another
didn't get mentioned in our watch-lists. /p pYou may disagree with our selections, so do tell us in
the comments what you think./p pemNote: the products listed below are in no particular order/em/p
h21. Yahoo! SearchMonkey/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo-purple-logo.jpg"
width="140" height="103" border="0" align="left" /In May this year a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_searchmonkey_launches.php"Yahoo! launched an open
developer platform for search/a called a
href="http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/"SearchMonkey/a. Yahoo hasn't had the happiest of
years, but its willingness to innovate in search is to be commended. As we reported a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_apps_platform.php"at the Web 2.0 Expo/a in April,
SearchMonkey is a component of a major overhaul at Yahoo! across all of its properties to "rewire"
for the social graph and data portability. SearchMonkey allows developers to build applications on
top of Yahoo! search, including allowing site owners to share structured data with Yahoo!, using
semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web
services), and page extraction./p pWe think this is the best use of Semantic Web by an Internet
bigco this year. So for that reason SearchMonkey makes our top 10 list. emRelated: a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semtech_making_the_web_searchable_searchmonkey.php"The
Story of SearchMonkey/a/em./p h22. Powerset (acquired by Microsoft in '08)/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/pset-livesearch.png" align="right" /a
href="http://www.powerset.com/"Powerset/a (see a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/exclusive_launch_of_powerlabs.php"our initial coverage
here/a and a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/powerset_and_hakia_quest_for_semantic_web.php"here/a) is
a natural language search engine. It's fair to say that Powerset has had a great 2008, having been
a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_acquires_powerset.php"acquired by Microsoft
in July this year/a./p pAt the time of the acquisition, Powerset said that it needed a bigger
partner to expand its product beyond its current state of only searching Wikipedia - something we
had speculated about when the a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rumor_microsoft_powerset.php"rumors of the acquisition
first appeared/a. In its own statement, Microsoft stressed how useful Powerset's technology will be
for improving Microsoft's own search products and to quot;take Search to the next level.quot; In a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_microsoft_powerset_beat_google.php"our analysis of
the deal/a, we noted that it was a quot;bold play requiring exact executionquot; by Microsoft./p
h23. Open Calais (Thomson Reuters)/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/calais_logo_mar08.gif" align="left" /At the end of 2007,
ClearForest had been recently a
href="http://www.clearforest.com/whatsnew/PRs.asp?year=2007amp;id=109"acquired by Reuters/a and at
that point it had a Web Service and a Firefox extension. What a change a year brings! ClearForest
went on to release a href="http://www.opencalais.com/"Calais/a, a toolkit of products that enable
users to incorporate semantic functionality within their blog, content management system, website
or application./p pSince a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/reuters_calais.php"launching
the Open Calais API/a early this year, over 6,000 developers have registered with it and the
service is doing more than 1 million transactions a day. a
href="http://www.opencalais.com/node/8823"Version 3.0 was released/a earlier this month and version
4 is expected by January 09./p h24. Dapper MashupAds/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/dapperlogo.jpg" align="right" /In November a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_mashupads_a_new_lease_o.php"we wrote about/a the
recent improvement in a href="http://www.dapper.net/mashupads/"Dapper MashupAds/a, a product we
first spotted a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_ads.php"over a year ago/a. The
idea is that publishers can tell Dapper: this is the place on my web page where the title of a
movie will appear, now serve up a banner ad that's related to whatever movie this page happens to
be about. That could be movies, books, travel destinations - anything. We remarked that the UI for
this has grown much more sophisticated in the past year. /p pThe company believes that its new ad
network will provide monetary incentive for publishers to have their websites marked up
semantically. We think this has plenty of promise, so it makes our year-end list./p h25. Hakia/h2
pimg border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/hakia_logo_mar07.jpg" align="left"
width="150" height="73"a href="http://www.hakia.com/"Hakia/a is a search engine focusing on natural
language processing methods to try and deliver 'meaningful' search results. Hakia attempts to
analyze the concept of a search query, in particular by doing sentence analysis. Over the past year
Hakia has been busy extending its reach - a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hakia_licenses_semantic_search.php"licensing its
proprietary OntoSem technology/a to other companies in March and a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hakia_announces_semantic_api.php"announcing a Semantic
API/a in June. It was also one of the first companies to a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_opens_its_search_engine.php"utilize Yahoo! BOSS/a,
by integrating their semantic parsing with the Yahoo! search index./p pWe think Hakia has made good
progress getting its technology into the hands of third parties and making use of Yahoo's broader
index, so for that reason it's among our top 10 for the year./p !--nextpage-- h26. TripIt/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/tripit_logo_nov07.jpg" align="right" /a
href="http://www.tripit.com/"Tripit/a is an app that manages your travel planning. With TripIt, you
forward incoming bookings to plans@tripit.com and the system manages the rest./p pOver the past
year TripIt has continued to iterate on its feature set - introducing LinkedIn integration, better
mobile functionality, more social networking features, and other goodies. In short, it's user
experience continues to rock!/p h27. BooRah/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/boorah_logo_sep08.png" alt="boorah_logo_sep08.png"
align="left" /a href="http://boorah.com"BooRah/a is a restaurant review site that we first a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boorah_semantic_restaurant_reviews.php"reviewed/a
earlier this year and has come on in leaps and bounds over 2008. BooRah uses semantic analysis and
natural language processing to aggregate reviews from food blogs. Because of this, BooRah can
recognize praise and criticism in these reviews and then rates restaurants accordingly. BooRah also
gathers reviews from Citysearch, Tripadvisor and other large review sites./p pBooRah also a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/boorah_launches_api.php"announced last month/a the
availability of an a href="http://boorah.com/api.html"API/a that will allow other web sites and
businesses to offer online reviews and ratings from BooRah to their customers. The API will surface
most of BooRah's data about a given restaurant, including ratings, menus, discounts, and coupons./p
h28. AdaptiveBlue/h2 pemstrongDisclosure:/strong AdaptiveBlue's founder Alex Iskold is a feature
writer at RWW./em/p pimg border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/adaptiveblue_may07.png"
align="right" width="238" height="56" /a href="http://www.adaptiveblue.com/"AdaptiveBlue/a are
makers of the Firefox plugin, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blueorganizer_semantic_web.php"BlueOrganizer/a. As we
wrote in January this year, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adaptive_blue_indigo.php"the basic idea behind
BlueOrganizer/a is that it gives you added information about webpages you visit and offers useful
links based on the subject matter./p pOver the past year the company has been working on a new
product, a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/put_the_social_web_in_context_with_glue.php"called
Glue/a. Launched last month, Glue is a more social networking oriented version of BlueOrganizer -
it connects you to your friends based around things like books, music, movies, stars, artists,
stocks, wine, restaurants, and more. We think the company has diversified smartly in 2008, by
integrating social networking and mobile functionality into its products./p h29. Zemanta/h2 pimg
src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/zlogo.gif"a href="http://www.zemanta.com"Zemanta/a is a
blogging tool which a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zementa_brings_a_semantic_layer_to_blogs.php"harnesses
semantic technology/a to add relevant content to your posts. While it didn't make either of our
'Semantic Apps to Watch' lists in November, a number of commenters pointed it out as something they
use. In September we covered a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zemanta_releases_major_upgrade.php"a major upgrade to
Zemanta's service/a, allowing users to specify the sources they want to see in the suggestions list
that Zemanta provides. Users can now incorporate their own social networks, RSS feeds, and photos
into their blog posts. As we noted, this makes Zemanta a lot more appealing to established bloggers
who are in less need of suggestions and more in need of automation./p pZemanta's API is also being
used by startups, including semantic bookmarking service Faviki - which we mentioned in a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_more_semantic_apps_to_watch.php?p=2"our second
Watch-list/a. So all up, we think Zemanta has done enough this year to be included in our top 10
list./p h210. UpTake/h2 pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/uptake-logo.jpg" width="150"
height="44" border="0" align="right" /Semantic search startup a
href="http://www.uptake.com/"UpTake/a (formerly Kango) aims to make the process of booking travel
online easier. In a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_travel_search_uptake.php"our review in May/a,
we explained that UpTake is a vertical search engine that has assembled what it says is the largest
database of US hotels and activities - over 400,000 of them - from more than 1,000 different travel
sites. Using a top-down approach, UpTake looks at its database of over 20 million reviews,
opinions, and descriptions of hotels and activities in the US and semantically extracts information
about those destinations. /p pAnd now please let us know in the comments what you think of our
selections. Do you think we've picked the best 10 Semantic Web products of the year?/p stronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_semantic_web_products_2008.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong
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Ubergizmo -
33 minutes ago
centerimg title="USB Notebook Cooling Pad Does More Than Just Cool" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="USB
Notebook Cooling Pad Does More Than Just Cool"
src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/12/brando-aio-cooler.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pGadget
mavens Brando does not disappoint with their latest, the a
href="http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00739"USB Notebook Cooling Pad + 3-Port Hub
+ 2.5" HDD/A. Well, what can we say about this self-explanatory peripheral? You get a dual-fan
USB-powered laptop cooler with the addition of USB 2.0 ports for you to hook up a whole host of USB
Humping Dogs, while the 2.5" SATA hard drive dock located at its rear is good for additional
storage as and when required. Nice to know that you can have this peripheral powered by an AC
adapter since you wouldn't want to like, overload those USB ports it is connected to, right? Brando
is offering this mish-mash peripheral for a
href="http://usb.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00739"$33/a a pop./p pPermalink: a
href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/12/usb_notebook_cooling_pad_does_more_than_just_cool.html"USB
Notebook Cooling Pad Does More Than Just Cool/a from Ubergizmo (a
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centerimg title="Optibike OB1 Does Not Come With Astromech Droid" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Optibike
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border="0" //centerbr / pStar Wars fans will get the reference above, but that's not the main point
of this story. The 2009 Optibike OB1 is an electric bicycle that is powered by a lithium-ion
battery, boasting a GPS to help you stay true to your destination, while its built-in PDA is able
to keep track of the vehicle's performance - hopefully it is waterproof to a certain extent since
you can never be too sure when the heavens are going to open up and pour down their blessings
whenever you head to the great outdoors. The two hour battery life ought to be sufficient for
intra-city use, although having exhausted it, you can always rely on your two legs to keep you
moving. Only two dozen OB1s will be manufactured this year, so be prepared to break the bank if you
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released just a couple of days ago or so, and it is nice to see that Nikon has already prepared
itself to ship the GP-1 GPS dongle that can go along very nicely with the D3X. Of course, this
device is also compatible with the D200, D3, D700, D90 and D300 models thanks to its hot-shoe
connector, bringing positional information recording to all your images captured. Perfect for folks
who love geo-tagging their images. Unfortunately, very little is known about the GP-1 apart from
its flashing blinkenlights, where green and red LEDs represent the amount of satellites that have
been locked onto. The $240 price tag might be a little bit hard to swallow for some, but hey - if
you're willing to fork out a cool $8,000 for the D3X, this should be chump change for you./p
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TechCrunch -
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It was only a matter of time before a location tracking app found its way into laptop security
software. Laptop Cop,
which lets you remotely control your computer and delete files if it is stolen, now has a
geo-location feature based on WiFi-hotspot triangulation technology from Skyhook Wireless. It is
the same technology that is used in the iPhone (along with GPS and cell-tower triangulation) to
determine your location for geo-aware apps. Now you can tell the cops exactly what door to knock
on, more or less.
Laptop Cop costs $50. It does come with those other features as well. But if you want the same
Lojack service for your laptop without paying, you can download MyLoki for free. It
is a browser
add-on from Skyhook that broadcasts the location of your laptop. And anyone can always check
your personal MyLoki page to see where your is laptop (which is supposed to be a proxy for you,
but not when it’s been stolen).
It won’t be too long before all of your devices will tell you where they are.
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GigaOM -
44 minutes ago
The closure of Pownce, which was
announced Monday via posts by co-founder Leah Culver
and her new employer, blog software company Six Apart, didn’t come
as much of a surprise to anyone who’s followed Pownce since its launch last year. Despite
help from co-founders like Kevin Rose of Digg and usability guru Daniel Burka, the service never
really found an audience, or at least not one big enough to make a go of it. In the end, Pownce
was just too much like Twitter (and Jaiku and Plurk, for that matter); the added features it had
— including the ability to transfer files — weren’t enough to set it apart in
people’s minds, much less turn it into a must-have utility.
So why did Six Apart, the blogging software provider founded by husband-and-wife team Ben and
Mena Trott, decide to buy the company? It’s possible that they just saw Culver and her
fellow Powncer Mike Malone as valuable hires in the programming department, and decided to
acqu-hire them, as Google has done with so many startup founders over the years. But while the
Pownce service is being shut down, could its features live on inside Six Apart and its Vox
blogging service? I think that’s a very real possibility. Culver, for example, notes in her blog post
that she hopes to “come back with something much better in 2009.”
Twitter and its ilk are often referred to as platforms for “micro-blogging,” because
(in the right hands at least) a 140-character message posted to the service can be almost as good
as a blog post. More than one blogger has said that the frequency of their blog posts has
decreased since they began Twittering, and some have given up full-blown blogging altogether.
Others, however (myself included), use Twitter as a kind
of feeder system for their blogs. Not only do they use it to find ideas, links and conversation
that spark longer blog posts, but they use it in reverse — to alert potential readers to
their posts. And in many cases the conversation extends from the blog to the chat
service and vice-versa. There’s an almost symbiotic relationship between the two services,
with each feeding off and benefiting from the other.
Six Apart has made a number of acquisitions that indicate the company is thinking about how to
extend its services, including social media application maker Apperceptive. Much like its blog software competitor
Automattic, the home of WordPress (see disclosure below), the company seems to be looking for
tools that can be incorporated into its platforms to make them more robust as media publishing
services. Could a Twitter-style tool be part of that vision for Six Apart? It would make a lot of
sense, just as WordPress buying Buddypress (a startup that added social networking functionality
to the platform) and launching a Twitter-style chat theme called Prologue made sense.
There are already a variety of plugins and tools that allow WordPress and Movable Type bloggers
to incorporate Twitter into their blogs, either by posting their messages automatically in a
sidebar, or in some cases, by allowing them to post to Twitter from their blog dashboard. But
having someone who understands how such services operate could help Six Apart integrate these
kinds of features more fully into their platforms, as well as making it easier to develop new
ones that could merge micro-blogging and “real” blogging. At the end of the day, Six
Apart and Automattic aren’t just blogging services but content-management and
content-publishing companies, and Twitter messages are
just another form of content that needs to be managed and published.
Auttomatic is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the
parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a
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