Our launch is just a few weeks ahead… That’s quite scary but we are so excited to finally share Vega with all of you. Anyway until then, we are happy to announce that we raised some funds to help us reinforce our team. So if you want to join us and be part of that big jump into the wild, be sure to read these 2 job offers (in France so in french):
And the few of you that can’t apply, you can still help us by spreading the word: we’re hiring!
Long time since we gave you any news from Vega ; but “No news is good news” and we are happy to share some exciting news with you.
More photos from the ceremony on http://www.facebook.com/getvega
First Digital Startup Trophey (le Trophée Startup Numérique) organized by Telecom SudParis. There were more than 80 french startups in this competition and there was some truly interesting projects.
We are very grateful to Telecom SudParis for organizing such an attractive – and unique – competition. Part of the price included a free incubation in their Parisian center, as well as coaching from their best advisors.
☛ For more information: Website, Twitter
Ecole Centrale de Paris - Incubator
Second Vega will also be incubated at the Ecole Centrale de Paris (where Yvan and I have done our studies). We are very proud to be part of this prestigious school and are excited to beneficiate from their coaching.
☛ For more information: Website
Vega, Pick the Web
And <insider news>, I can tell you that the product is growing fast… ! Thanks to the best early testers of the planet, Vega has become sexy, responsive and awesomely useful.
☛ Stay tuned for early invites on our Facebook page, or by entering your email at http://www.getvega.com!
This week Foursquare rolled out his 2.0 version, an event that got a lot of media coverage. Some very interesting features in there including a small button that let you add the “venue” you are viewing in your Foursquare to-do list. Does it remind you something? Yep, Facebook announced their own “Like” button, some months ago at their F8 conference.
And that time again that’s a hit! How do they do that? For such a small button??
Flickr | timojazz | Creative Commons
Websites or software can be classified as HCIs, “Human Computer Interactions”. By definition those “interactions” are cold and impersonal ; you do talk to a computer and therefore don’t expect anything else. And usually that’s a good thing, those UIs should be straightfoward and do their job.
While this can be a rule of thumb when designing UIs, I really think that software could act more as a human and should trigger some emotions, like: “Woooh, that’s magic!” or – and that is even easier – a smile on your users’face.
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An interesting discussion this weekend led me to think about Google Buzz. It seems that around me people remain very negative about it. Among critics we can find its complexity, its disturbing GMail integration, or just a “Pff-yet-another-twitter” kind of reaction. But still, having thought about it for a while, I do think that Google Buzz is awesome: its UI, its integration with other Google services, its feature set – Google Buzz feels a bit like a Twitter 2.0 for me… So what is the problem?
Third party website integrations
In the “Did you notice that?” series, I discovered this morning an interesting Google Search feature. When searching for instance “Paris – Nouméa”, you find this nice integration of third-party travel websites directly in your results. Don’t know when they rolled out this feature, but for sure I am a fan. This saves some very valuable clicks!
Here are some other niceties from Google Search:
Hey everybody, this is our very first post on this blog. Hope you will find it inspiring ! We will present ourselves more thoroughly in another post. But for the moment let’s just share some thoughts about news happening all around the web.
Flickr | Brymo | Creative Commons
As always the Enterprise market follows the Consumer market and Web 2.0 problems are starting to emerge in the Enterprise too. One of them is this whole notion of Information Overload. People are more and more annoyed with all those sources they subscribe to.
