The profile pages of your website's members now include an URL shortener

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Orangium

May 17, 2010 0 comment
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From now on, your site's members can benefit from the integration of an URL shortener in order to easily share their profile pages on the Web.   Here are two examples:   Our profile on the cage.ca site http://www.cage.ca/orangium   Claudie's profile on the Alzheimer's Quebec donation ste http://www.lamarchedelamemoire.com/claudie-borduas-100 (short URL = http://alz.cc/1c8y) ...



Don't change your URLs!

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Vincent Abry

May 13, 2010 0 comment
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Most of the time, when you create a post on a website, CMS or blog, the URL is generated automatically based on your post's title. You can even customize your URL by removing words like and, at, or, as well as hyphens, apostrophes, and the like. I personally don't waste too much time on the issue and, with some rare exceptions, I always prefer natural language URLs. The important thing is ma...



The QR Code tsunami is coming

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Here is the QR code in a nutshell: Point your phone at a printed page. Take a picture. Get taken to a website. That's the power of QR codes, codes embedded in print that can link cell phones to specific websites.



Avoid external services and shorten your URLs directly in Oranigum

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Orangium

March 18, 2010 0 comment
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Following a survey conducted by WatchMouse that revealed URL shorteners are not speed champions, we wondered how our own internal URL system fared in comparison. In that survey, the metric we are concerned about is the processing time. In Orangium, this corresponds to the duration column in our tracing reports: that is where we can outpace others. The average processing of our internal URL shor...



Trademarks in Quebec: what symbol should be used?

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Claudie Borduas

February 17, 2010 0 comment
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Having recently been greenlighted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office for the Orangium trademark, we decided to take a longer look at the various trademarks and their symbols.   According to the CIPO http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00856.html: Marking requirements Canada's Trade-marks Act does not contain any marking requirements. However, t...



Even source code written by a programmer or integrator is protected by the Copyright act

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Claudie Borduas

February 9, 2010 0 comment
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I could try and explain the following, but I wouldn't do a better job than DAMIC (Droit d’auteur / Multimédia-Internet / Copyright) @ http://www.damic.qc.ca/. The site itself is outdated, but the information it contains is still up to date: "Literary work Words, words and more words... but software, too!   All forms of written content are included in this category. ...



Freelancers own their copyright even when you paid them for their work

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Claudie Borduas

February 4, 2010 0 comment
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As previously mentionned in the post  Even stories written by freelancers for your Web site are protected by the Copyright Act, frelancers and other contract workers remain the owners of their copyrights unless an assignment of rights or licence contract is signed by the freelancer and yourself. In other words, what you are paying for is the manpower, not the final product. The result of t...