Jan 26

B2B News David Wei Joins Alibaba.com as President of Alibaba’s B2B Division . Former President of B&Q China brings solid operational experience and industry expertise to drive expansion of Alibaba’s business-to-business marketplaces WhyAbe has a New Look . The free auction site WhyAbe has a new look and set of functionalities. Could anyone using WhyAbe [...]

Jan 22

Free SMS from your PC, anywhere in the world

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based on Yahoo!widgets engine, Callwave is offering free SMS sending capabilities to anyone here. Worth knowing and sharing; I guess it is unlimited. Don’t forget to put your name and eventually phone details at the end of your SMS as the pre-defined details are Callwave’s ones. Callwave is an innovative voice application provider since 1998, [...]

Jan 10

TOP 300 Freeware softwares

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Some time ago I recommended The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities website to find fast appropriate applications you need on a day-to-day basis… at work, at home, wherever. I keep thinking it is one of the best freeware-resource page with sound-evaluation. Though, if you need more, here is another list of 300 most well-known and robust [...]

Dec 21

7 ‘cool-quotes’ extracted from the Harvard Business Review (August 2002) about “How do you boost an organization creative potential?”. Reading them Ithough they applied quite well to Sourcing and Procurement professionals and strategic partners where innovation and creativity is key: Make it the norm – Craig Wynett GM P&G Don’t Fear Failure – Michael Dell, [...]

Dec 05

Filling online forms automatically

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At a certain point, it’s not even anymore an option. It’s a must have: You can’t survive without a tool to remember all of your usernames-passwords and helping you overcoming the pain of filling all those forms requested to get access to some good content, reports or white papers. Personnaly I’m using Roboform. I tried [...]

Nov 29

Business intelligence: Top 5 RSS readers

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If, as I do, you browse the internet for hours to get detailed information about your favorite topics, then you probably use a RSS reader. I’m using Netvibes myself for a while already and enjoy it very much. However, as I’m not completely satisfied, I looked around to get the “killing App” if any. Unfortunatly [...]

Nov 06

The ultimate free online file converter

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“Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?” That’s the tagline of Zamzar. Zamzar is a great new online Internet freeware tool for anyone to know. Here are the 200 possible file convertion combinations you can enjoy from. It’s free for files smaller than 100MB. Really cool, no?

Oct 27

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

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Thinking about it, I spent hours to search and identify the best freeware to install for a particular topic (ftp, images, security, file management, etc…). Not talking even about the risks of adwares or malwares. I found this website “The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities” really usefull to save time and get the best, free and [...]

Sep 20

Online translation tools

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There are many-many tools available to get word translation. But as soon as you need a precise word or expression translation then the possibilities are limited, as far as I can see. Actually, when I am looking for a specific and precise word or expression traduction, I always use “Le grand dictionnaire terminologique“. This site [...]

Aug 16

French dictionaries online

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I’ve spent some time finding out a good french dictionary online, to get detailed definition, plurials, to check verbs usage. Here are my favorite tools. None are perfect, but they are free. I will update this post if any changes. Lexilogos | **** it is a non commercial website dedicated to the french language and [...]