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Sylvain Zimmer

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Sylvain Zimmer's blog & portfolio of projects and investments

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132 from 9 Jan 2005 to 15 Jan 2025
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2025 1

  1. Joining the public sector

2021 2

  1. Flashing Tasmota on Smart Plugs via Serial
  2. Looking Back on 9 Epic Years of Sketchfab Hacks

2019 2

  1. Pricing Assistant joins Contentsquare
  2. dotConferences joins Welcome to the Jungle

2015 4

  1. Encounters of the random kind
  2. How we choose speakers for dotConferences
  3. Announcing the dotConferences Hosts program
  4. Adopting a strict disclosure policy

2013 3

  1. Adding support for the SpaceNavigator into Sketchfab
  2. Unveiling my new startup: Pricing Assistant
  3. Optimizing the ISS solar arrays, a Python solution to the NASA Longeron Challenge

2012 2

  1. dotJS, the largest JavaScript conference in France
  2. The Joshfire Factory opens in private beta to disrupt app development

2011 4

  1. The third day Flash died?
  2. R.I.P. Steve
  3. The second day Flash died
  4. Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever

2010 20

  1. First to decode the Chrome OS video equation!! (+ won a Cr-48 ;-)
  2. TEDGlobal 2010 Meta-recap, all you need to know ;-)
  3. TEDGlobal day 5 session 12 : Waging Peace
  4. TEDGlobal day 5 session 11: The Tiny Blue Dot
  5. TEDGlobal day 4 power outage : The ED Conference
  6. TEDGlobal day 4 session 10: Who's the Teacher?
  7. TEDGlobal day 4 session 9: The Unknown Brains
  8. TEDGlobal 2010 day 4 session 8 : Adventures In Fairness
  9. TEDGlobal 2010 day 4 session 7 : Creatures Great and Small
  10. TEDGlobal 2010 day 3 session 6 : Different By Design
  11. TEDGlobal day 3 session 5 : Healthier together
  12. TEDGlobal day 3 session 4: Irrational Choices
  13. TEDGlobal 2010 day 3: Found in Translation
  14. TEDGlobal 2010 day 2: And now the good news!
  15. TEDGlobal 2010 day 2 : TED University session 2
  16. TEDGlobal 2010, Day 1 : TEDx Workshop, TED University & Second party night
  17. TEDGlobal 2010 day 0 : Gooooal ;-)
  18. Leaving for TEDGlobal 2010 tomorrow! :)
  19. Impeach Obama? WTF!
  20. TEDxParis tomorrow! Join us with the livestream :)

2009 3

  1. Richard Bona @ Luxembourg (2009/09/27)
  2. Maceo Parker @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations, 2009/10/09
  3. Nosfell, 03/10/2009

2008 25

  1. Jamendo Radios on the Fonera 2.0, the video!
  2. A prototype of Jamendo Radios on the Fonera 2.0
  3. Joined the CC network
  4. The Headhunters (Nancy, 20-10-07)
  5. Maceo Parker (Christchurch, 27-03-07)
  6. Fred Wesley and Me! (Grenoble, 12-10-07)
  7. A lot of news!
  8. Opening sentence of the Open Business track of iSummit 08
  9. Joi Ito keynote at isummit 08
  10. Jimmy Wales at isummit 08
  11. Free download of beer
  12. First post from my iphone ;)
  13. Another crazy week full of concerts
  14. How to install MySQLdb on Leopard with MAMP
  15. Jamendo reaches 10.000 albums
  16. Facebook AJAXifies all their navigation
  17. Back to Luxembourg next week!
  18. Sad breakup...
  19. New side project: Contrapunctus XIV
  20. Leaving France on Strike (again!)
  21. Secure IM for the Real Guys...
  22. Morcheeba live in Luxembourg tonight
  23. Opening the Flash format: quick thoughts
  24. Going to WordCamp Paris & testing WordPress-MU 1.5-RC1
  25. New Jamendo offices!

2007 6

  1. First prototype of Jamendo on the iPhone!
  2. Building a great team, one bet at a time!
  3. Jamendo presentation at Wikimania 07 in Taipei
  4. 10 reasons why the Colbert Report is one of the funniest shows ever
  5. Working on the algorithm for Jamendo’s “similar albums”
  6. First embeddable jamendo player!

2006 19

  1. Presenting jamendo in Amsterdam, again!
  2. LeWeb3 : the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  3. Jamendo demo at leweb3 conference
  4. Stephen Colbert in Firefox 2.0 “Contributors” list!
  5. Richard Stallman, Gael Duval… and me!
  6. Integrating Vanilla in jamendo’s CMS
  7. Speeding up Prototype’s Selector
  8. Presenting jamendo in Amsterdam…
  9. A post from Flock 0.7 "Cardinal”
  10. Dropping out of school…
  11. Jamendo: now with full Blog powers!
  12. Project 5 : God save the funk!
  13. New “web2.0 -Wow!-” features for jamendo
  14. On my radar…
  15. Road trip to Florence, Italy
  16. jamendo and Creative Commons reach 10 million French people on prime time TV news!
  17. Views
  18. jamendo enters the spanish blogosphere
  19. jamendo is getting HOT

2005 41

  1. My new bands & some concert photos
  2. Laurent vs Amélie : 1-0 !
  3. Music I’ve been listening to
  4. Come back…
  5. Mass seeding with BitTorrent: another solution.
  6. jamendo going Web 2.0
  7. High performance MySQL, live.
  8. jamendo’s long tail!
  9. Road trip to Barcelona
  10. Update from ENPC
  11. Can’t wait for Lenny Kravitz LIVE!
  12. “We live in a beautiful world”
  13. My first n°5: press review :-)
  14. Blog updated
  15. Scenes from jamendolive
  16. World’s biggest Jenga bridge!
  17. “My first” n°4 : Narcipost
  18. World’s biggest jamendo banner :)
  19. “My first” series n°3 : bass concert!
  20. Concert: Spock’s Beard + Kino
  21. Distributing flyers…
  22. ccLive 0.2
  23. It had to end ! A little bit of history…
  24. The Birth of Creative Commons Luxembourg
  25. Recovering from website defacing…
  26. jamendo concert n°1, day 0 : the venue.
  27. Spock’s Beard v2
  28. Public domain is so morbid :/
  29. Nice P2P/Internet/Free culture brainstrorming
  30. State of the art !
  31. My first python app!
  32. My first appearance in an ad :)
  33. iRATE + jamendo
  34. Free software fanatics against jamendo
  35. jamendo evangelism
  36. In a word ? Incredible.
  37. Balancing value and weight
  38. irate.jamendo.com now up / 24 401
  39. Working on jamendo
  40. Yet another boring day ?! First album thoughts
  41. Blog now up!