Guillaume's adventures in wonderland

Monday, January 29, 2007

THAT is a killer app !! (maybe)


After Google and MSN, Yahoo decided to launch his new webmail. It's important to say that they published all source code from this application. It's a really interesting application I think, it really represents the web 2.0 I think with full of great technical skills (AJAX is (ab)used all along the application) , sober design with quiet colors and especially... full of skills which don't work ! One of those examples is the fact that you have to log in several times during your session beacause of security, Yahoo said... It's really irritating for the navigation. Other tools don't work really good, it's not rare that you have a message which say to you that you have been disconnected!

On this point it's really less that Gmail but there is a real good point : the interface. Yahoo and MSN really entered in a new area. This one which bring closer classical software interfaces with web interfaces. when you're using Yahoo mail you wonder if you're really on the net or just on your Outlook.

Football.net

Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllll!!!! Yes Bob I'm a big football* fan ! That's why I decided recently to work on Ligue 1 (the french football championship) club's web strategy. There will be a lot of things to say about that. Firstable you have to know that french teams have a big delay on others europeans teams in particular english clubs like Manchester or Liverpool. For example the biggest french team website (psg.fr) earns 700 000€ a year whereas www.manutd.com (Manchester United website) earns about 18 millions € a year.
It's really interestant to work on this topic because french teams website are at the moment in a big phase of mutations. Currently only informative, those websites try to become true commercial tools, profitable which can earn money. That's why they try to diversify their offers like VOD, tickets, clothes and accessories sales, webTV...To facilitate this development, clubs find partnership to reduce the costs of those services.
Next evolution ? It will follow the desires of the fans : why not follow 24 hours a day your favorite team on the webTV of the website ! That's football 2.0!!

*I'm sure you know... but... you know... just to be sure:)
Football is a ball game played between two teams of 11 players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent on a field of 110 meters by 60 meters. Football is played predominantly with the feet, except goalkeepers, who are the only players allowed to handle the ball in the field of play.

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Make your own Youtube!!

3 videos to learn how to make quickly and easily a video player with Macromedia Flash. I made those videos with Camstudio software.

1. Encode your video



2. Integrate your video in Flash



3. Publish your video on the web !





The result