Adrien’s blog
Stuff I like, stuff I do, stuff I make

Nao is (apparently) the first French android to be sold for the mainstream market. It’s a cute little robot that can listen and talk to you, danse, tell stories and read your email from the internet using wifi. Is this the next nabaztag?

Présentation de Nao par newzy.fr

Alice is a free software to create simple programs in a 3D
virtual world, thanks to the assisted drag-and-drop-based programming language. You can drop 3D objects and avatars to the scene, visualize their methods in real-time and add parametered calls to these methods to your script. I think this is a good way to learn computing science.

A good (and concise) read for those who still think twitter is yet another chat protocol:

Twitter is like a blog except is it is only 140 characters
Twitter is a status update except it is viewable in lots of places
Twitter is like a giant chat room except you choose the people you follow
Twitter is like instant messaging except it’s public & archived online

(source: What is Twitter Like? « The Stratius Blog)

I just watched the teaser video of a new website called Paggr, and I must say that it looks exciting to me!

Paggr is a platform that allow users to create pages on which they add widgets, similarly to iGoogle or netvibes. The differences are that:

• the widgets can gather data from semantic web services using the SPARQL language, and these widgets can thus be created directly on the platform
• (semantic) data can be dragged & dropped from a widget to another, allowing a seemless mashup-enabled navigation between them.

I’m looking forward to get an invite for this platform in order to play with it!