OurielOhayon

A rope on the neck

source NYT and Jpost

Below the pictures and videos of the hanging itself

warning: After this link tough videos and pictures. don’t click if you are senstive

Curiously no media is broadcasting it at the moment

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When mother nature affects the internet

The asian earthquake did not only ruin the life of many and destroyed civilian infrastructures. It also created a huge telecom outage. i realized that when one of the services i use, anothr, an rss alert system through skype, run by an asian company displayed the message below.

I could read in the washington post

Less than 48 hours after the powerful quake ruptured the two crucial cables off Taiwan's southern tip, companies from South Korea to Singapore said they managed to partially restore most of their service to millions of customers….

Most international Internet data and voice calls travel as pulses of light through hundreds of undersea fiber optic cables crisscrossing the globe. The cables _ clusters of glass fibers enclosed in protective material _ are often owned by groups of telecom companies, who share costs and capacity.

The world is really flat. Today we are also concerned and directly touched by natural catastrophes even when we believe we are not. This should raise the need of social responsibility, as we will feel directly the impact of those terrible situations, miles away from where they happen.

I sincerely hope asia recovers quickly from that. This area seems to be cursed…

note: this post is a modest tentative contribution to the intiative “blogging for a better world” initiative dedicated to social responsibility. Not clear to me what this is going to be yet but i wanted to try and bring some kind of new insight.

technorati tags: b4bw bfbw bloggersforabetterworld asia earthquake taiwan

5 things about me you did not know

I was invited to followup on a chain of posts on things you don’t know about a personn. the principle is simple you list 5 things people don’t know about you and invite 5 other personns to do it

1. I thought blogs were a stupid thing until a couple of friends initiated me to that. I still think it is stupid but it is the greatest stupid thing i have ever done
2. I hate slow things/people. Really. Really Really
3. I nearly quitted my high tech career to run a musical adventure
4. I failed 4 times my driving license…not proud of it..
5. My first job was working in a theme park as attraction manager (bumping cars). One day i was attacked by the father of a young girl because i would not let her in without shoes.

Whoever wants to follow up is invited.

"Hidden/Cache" by Haneke is an outstanding masterpiece

2 days after having seen Hidden/Cache the latest movie by Michael Haneke with Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, i am still in shock. It was released last year but i just stumbled upon it..

I need to watch it a couple of times more to really appreciate it fully. But all i can tell you is GO SEE IT THAT MOVIE.

I will not spoil the story but it is about a couple that receives videos of themself and that become more and more private. All i can tell you is that this movie is creating a strong polemic and there is no one way of reading/understanding it.

This is a wonderful psycho thriller and very powerful scenario (no wonder it received a prize at Cannes movies festival)

This movie leaves you at the end with a sense of mystery and most of the of work has to be done by the viewer.

Haneke is a master in creating ouf of the box movies, playing cruelly and shockingly with the viewer (if you saw Funny Games or the Pianist then you’ll know what i mean)

The last time i felt that with a movie was when i saw Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive by David Lynch one of my top 5 director.

Here is the trailer (here with subtitles in english)

And here is a scene of the making of with Haneke directing

How to come back to normal font in IE7

i just installed the new IE7 for a try (actually already happy with FF and maxthon). Before i explore further, i got stuck with a stupid visual problem that made my browsing no so good.

The font displayed was kind of blury. I just wasted an hour on my computer because i thought it was a bug or language set up.

After exploring the web i finally realize what was the problem.

IE7 by default displays a ClearFont type which is supposed to "be better" (and i don't think so)

If you want to come back to your pre-IE7 settings do the following

• Go to tools


• Internet options


• Select the "Advanced Tab"


• Go to "Multimedia"


• Uncheck "Always use Cleartype for HTML"


• Restart IE7

Here is the blurry IE7 default Cleartype option

Here is the clear pre-IE7 which i much prefer

btw just so that you know installing IE7 will affect maxthon display but will not affect FireFox. That's all folks

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JAZZCAST: Keith Jarrett plays "MySong"

A rare video. Just found on youtube through the great tag search engine tagbulb. Keith Jarrett, here very young plays one of his first compositions “MySong”

Enjoy the video and although not great quality what a pianist. What strikes me in his play is the independance of both hands. Totally amazing…

One free idea for 2007: social network on predictions

When i see the number of people trying to make predictions and wishes for 2007 at this moment of the year on the blogosphere, i can’t help myself to think that a small website that would aggregate all of those and become the reference for predictors could be a good idea

Not a VC business with IPO at the end. Just a plain good idea with maybe some good buzz and a few easy dollars to make on adsense.

Call it whatever (predicti.cio.us), pull a social network a good text/pic/video editor, ranking mechanism, comments, trackbacks, RSS, widget to export you predictions to your blog or even use blogs APIs to simulatneously post in the website and your blog. That’s it. Fast to set. Cheap to set

it could even be that 43things would be willing to white label their technology for that

Have no time to do it. But if you do, the idea is yours. Prepare it for next year…

If you make some money out of it, invite me for a beer

Here is my prediction for 2007: someone will launch this idea

update: my prediction did not take long to happen…well not exactly. Mashable is encouraging people to post their predictions…

Snow in Jerusalem

pics and videos here

Excellent article on the so called bubble web2.0

The WSJ publishes an excellent discussion between David Hornik and Todd Dagres, two famous Venture Capitalist debating on web2.0

 

 

David is clearly putting the bubble debate is a wrong one and Todd is more in favour of it. I would surely join David in his analysis and views, which is something i did when i sat with him on LeWeb3 on the panel “will there be a bubble2.0”

Honestly i start to be tired by this debate. Each time i meet a journalist or someone the questions pops up.

I have archived that article on Google docs as it will go soon private

So here it is once and for all : THERE WILL NOT BE A BUBBLE OR WHATEVER ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE from what is happening today because we are in a sain ecosystem. And even if many startups are financed and many will die it does not mean there will be a bubble. This is very gross but this is the point. As long as there is creation of value there will be vcs to finance them and companies to copy them, and this is the logic cycle you meet in every new industry.

I wrote several times in very much details in TechCrunch, unfortunately in French

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What is happening with mediafire.com?

Mediafire is a great file sharing site.

For some days now it looks to be down. Does someone know what is happening?