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An Idea: The Social Media AlgebraFebruary 10 2009

I used to be very good at maths. I really was. Then I started studying computer science stuff (which is normal for a computer scientist) and as time goes by, I forgot many of the coolest stuff I learned when I was a student. For eg. language theories, logic, algebra…

Yesterday, maybe driven by a kind of nostalgia, I had an idea and submitted it to the wisdom of crowds on FriendFeed. I called it the SMA: Social Media Algebra. What I wanted, and hope someone will help me build it is: a formalism, a mathematic formulation of social media notions ; a theory.

Why? To be honnest, I admit that I currently don’t have any precise clue on how to fomalize this idea, and make it alive, but what I’m sure of is that with a set of mathematic tools we can all innovate, and most important of all: be able to demonstrate things, and understand social media behaviors without all the intense arguments of literature-ish discussions.

Is the SMA doable? Yes, SURE it is! Will it be useful, I bet so. Will you help? Tell me :)

SocialWhois: The next step for socialmedia [2]February 3 2009

I was computing arround the interwebs when Chris Saad jumped in my GTalk client and said: "Dude! This things is AWESOME!" —Yes, he was talking about SocialWhois. People who know who Chris is, would quickly understand what SocialWhois is about :)

Then, I saw dozens of people setting up profiles on SocialWhois, probably due to his and other tweets and to the article by mashable. So I'm late (as usual) but I hope I'll explain in some words what is SocialWhois, and why it really matters.

Popularity is NOT Value

I bet many people already hate me because i'm always repeating this, but what makes something worth attention is what YOU are looking for. I mean, we people, are driven by our interests. That's not a bad thing, no, really. We have centers of attentions ; things that matter to us. And these interests are different for everyone. Thus, if you're really looking for valuable information, you'd better find it from people who do care about it. Popular people are just people like you and me, and their interests aren't obligatory yours! And that's what I tried to

The "Free Hour" or how a simple idea can spread and work. [1]December 11 2008

Remember my last post? “How can I help you?. So, yes it worked for me and I’ve been able to give some of my humble help to some people already and I liked it a lot!

So guessing that many people share this idea, and are willing to help if anyone asks. We’ve started a room on friendfeed and it’s working madly well! You’ll be surprised by all the skills and the good and kind hearts out there! Really!

Please —and I beg you, come and join us, because EVERYONE knows SOMETHING about SOMETHING and that SOMETHING can help SOMEONE.

How can I help YOU?December 5 2008

I am giving away one hour of my weekly work time to you. Yes, you.

No catch, no strings attached, I simply want to help in coding stuff be it: markup, style, design, python, php, linux…

Why am I doing this

Believe me, I am not bored, I actually rarely get bored, I always have something to do. If it’s not for a client, then it’d be for fun. But I really want to give some help for free, weekly. Don’t look for the catch —there isn’t any.

How to ask me for help

You can send me an email, a tweet, or meet me on friendfeed :)

And here's NoiseRiver! Because your interests deserve attention!June 28 2008

I am not a blogger. At least I don’t define myself as such. Not that I have anything against blogging of course, but I’m more a developper, so sorry all for the long time without any post.

I’ve been among the people over friendfeed to request filters based on interests, because even if some people like the noise —all the noise— I myself don’t. So I put my “money” ( fbrunel one’s actually, whom I thank so much!) where my mouth is and made NoiseRiver.

NoiseRiver is a web application based on the friendfeed’s API that aims to extend friendfeed with some notions like: interests and neigborhood. You still have all the flow that is in friendfeed but the flow is, from now, on colored. Green meaning that you’ll probably like the entry and red meaning that you’ll probably hate it. Yes it’s almost like feedego :)

The first minutes of the launch were some of the most stressfull minutes I lived in my coder’s life. I’ve had to fix bugs and issues so quickly with everyone complaining about “404 Not found” errors. Believe me that was… hard!

Finally,