Read about this on Techcrunch and it rocks! Now it’s super easy to take any video from youtube and import it on your Ipod to play it on your way to the job (for example). You just need to download iTube :

iTube is an easy to use Windows program that will enable you to transfer any YouTube video onto your iPod video.
Simply enter in the YouTube page URL and iTube will download the file, convert it, and then import it directly into iTunes. The next time you plug in your iPod video it will automatically transfer. If you don’t have an iPod video, you can still watch the movie in iTunes.

YOu can start with videos from DikonacaTV or ChafouincrewTV! 

Enter your cube’s configuration in the space provided, and hit Solve.

What happens when the founders from Kazaa get together with the ones from Skype? The Venice project! Probably the future of television has we know it today…

We’re working on a project that combines the best things about television with the social power of the internet – a project that gives viewers, advertisers and content owners more choice, control and creativity than ever before.

The Venice Project is a new venture that combines the best elements of the TV experience with the most powerful internet technologies, in a way that will redefine the way people think about television. It is not a file-sharing application or a video download service.

That’s what happens when you go mainstream :

Got quoted and linked on a Renault fan site and BAM! artificial stat explosion.

Daka’s presenting her master’s diploma next week!

Emmanuel FESSY, Directeur de l’Ensci/Les Ateliers et l’équipe pédagogique du Mastère création en nouveaux médias vous invitent à la soutenance des diplômes des
élèves de la promotion 2005/2006 sous la présidence de Annie GENTÈS, du 4 au 6 octobre 2006.
Jeudi 5 octobre, 11h30 – Darja Gartner
Etude : Représentation de la vie dans l’architecture
Projet : Darja Gartner – MyWay
Directeur de projet : Jean Detrez

As you can see in the side column, you can now subscribe to WeAreDikonaca (0_o)/ + ‘!^-^!’ by email and visualise on the world map from where Dikonaca’s readers come from! Cool no?

We change the header every week.So we created an album for all of the past ones here. We’ll update it as weeks go by (arghh!).
Speaking of photography, check out the Flickr page of Rebekka.  She is one of Flickr’s biggest contributor, and she is very talended. All the comments, and picture views she got made her famous in the Flickr community and now she ended up getting serious offers in the ‘real’ world!

This guy, Matt, got a round the world trip sponsored by some gum company just for him to dance around. He doesn’t even know how to dance…

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It got good reviews but, only a modest success, it was soon forgotten. Then, a decade later, a strange thing happened. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin Air, another book about a mountain-climbing tragedy, which became a publishing sensation. Suddenly Touching the Void started to sell again.

What happened? In short, Amazon.com recommendations. The online bookseller’s software noted patterns in buying behavior and suggested that readers who liked Into Thin Air would also like Touching the Void. People took the suggestion, agreed wholeheartedly, wrote rhapsodic reviews. More sales, more algorithm-fueled recommendations, and the positive feedback loop kicked in.

This is not just a virtue of online booksellers; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power.

“The long tail” or Why the future of business is selling less of more is Chris Anderson’s latest book.

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It’s the Google Earth of the sky!

To visualize your website as a graph go to this page and enter your url.
The graph will create itself in front of your eyes.
Then make a screenshot and upload it on flickr with this tag : websitesasgraphs.
Above is the graph from our blog!
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Check out Pjotro’s website (crazy russian!) and make him dance + get yourself a cool screensaver.

Big up to Georges! 

For all ya surfers out there! Check out this sleak site called wikiriders which is bound to become a reference for organising your next surf trip in Europe or further away!

Welcome to the first surf spot locator thought and designed like a Wiki website. Here, everybody is invited to contribute and to publish surf related content.The address of your favourite shaper, a short cut to the beach… everything about surf can be added to the website.

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing.

ps. Thanks Hélène for the tip!

Internet is changing the way we consume videos. The TV era is on the decline.
Here are two videoblogs – among the millions online allreday – on subjects Dikonaca likes : snowboarding and surfing.

www.shralp.com is a weekly video podcast about snowboard events, contest, sessions, parties, gear and so on. It's supported by the guys from Blankpaper Studio, makers of last year original snowboard movie 91 words for snow.

www.surfsessionreport.com is showing regular spectacular surf sessions from Hawaii. Here is some footage from yesterday's session in backdoor.

Some German dudes had the smart idea to mash-up people’s fun and creativity from their google videos into a worldwide lip synching contest. You have to check it out because some videos are just to much fun!
My favourites : Madonna’s Hung up by The Mischievious boys and the Beastie Boys’ sabotage by a dutch crew.
Aretha Franklin’s Respect from the winners of the first contest is also cool. Just to tell you how HOT this is right now, the two girls who won have been on TV and all over the media and got half a million visitors on their website in 2 months….

Gidol is a new online competition for the many talented (and not so talented) people out there who have been waiting for their moment of fame. The competition places publicly submitted videos from Google Video in a head-to-head knockout tournament of 4 heats and 2 semi finals leading up to the grand final when a winner is announced.

Popularity is judged by the public who vote for their favourite video – and you can vote once a day for the Gidol you want to win. Votes are tallied at the end of the competition and the video with the highest number of votes will be named the winner. Winners not only receive prizes for their efforts, but are also inducted into the Gidol Hall of Fame.

The Webcam competition includes videos which are filmed in a single shot/take in front of a video camera. The Music Video competition in contrast includes performances that contain higher production techniques like multiple shots & locations, lighting and professional editing.

What about the ChafouinCrew??? Kim Wilde’s Kids in America? Let’s do it!

Try this, it's fun.
Be spontaneous, and don't forget the tail…

Interesting post today from technorati's blog on the "state of the blogosphere". Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs. Here are the conclusions of the study :

• Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
• The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
• It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
• On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
• 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
• Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour

There is allready a post about what Daka is doing in Paris.
But while she studies for her master, she is still active designing web sites as a freelance.
Here is the latest site she did : ringaraja. It's a website for mums and kids which is getting quiet big in Slovenia and will soon expand to Croatia. In fact there are 4 themes in this site as the design changes with the seasons.
Other sites, she designed in the last year(s) :

• Nancy beachwear – my favorite
• Celica – the best youth hostel in Ljubljana (Metelkova)
• Axe – get the effect

Check them out!

Just kidding.
Google released their easy Page Creator 2 days ago.

Hi there,Thanks for your interest in Google Page Creator.  We appreciate your patience, and we’re excited to tell you that we enabled your account today, so you can start making pages now!  To get started, head over to http://pages.google.com and sign in with your Gmail password.  We haven’t opened up Google Page Creator to everybody yet, so you’ll see a message on our home page saying that accounts are unavailable — you can just ignore that.
Google Page Creator is an experiment on Google Labs.  Google Labs is where we put projects before they’re ready for prime time so that we can start getting feedback from our users.  So, please, tell us what you think, what features we should add, what problems you’re experiencing, or anything else that can help us make Google Page Creator a better tool for you.  We’re listening.

For everybody who wants to start his own webpage but doesn’t know a lign of code this is the perfect tool. Easy to use, to update, to save…like a WYSIWYG software without the fuss of uploading via ftp. You just need a Google account. Okay there are some limitations for now in the presentation and so on. But it’s worth to check it out. It took me just a few minutes to create a mini website.

Other hot topic, is about a company called RIYA that I first read about on Techcrunch. It has been launched this week and allready 1 million pics have been uploaded. RIYA offers a face recognition system which is quiet amazing – spooky also - automatically tagging people in photos. Check it out for yourself.