AVIN a été créé en 2008 par Andre Ribeirinho, fondateur du site Adegga.com   comme un moyen de résoudre le problème d'itenification universelle de chaque vin dans les bases de données. En 2009, André a présenté l'AVIN au European Bloggers Conference (EWBC).

 AVIN est un code unique de 13 chiffres, qui agit comme un ISBN pour les livres, mais utilisé pour le suivi du vin. 

 Le code AVIN résout le problème de la duplication d'information dans des bases de données en créant un seul code unique pour chaque vin.  Chaque vin pour lequel est affecté un AVIN est d'abord vérifié afin de s'assurer qu'il n'existe pas déjà.

J'espère voir AVIN répartis à travers le monde. Joignez-vous à AVIN sur Facebook.com/avincode ou Twitter.com/avincode et surtout, inscrivez vos vins.

My (then) girlfriend's girlfriends. One was responsible for us breaking up and the other was a tall, blonde test of my fidelity, but the amusing anecdote I'm about to recall happend with the second one, not the first. She was in Paris, studying French at the Alliance Francaise. I'd never met her, didn't know what she looked like (other than tall, blonde) so when she called me I asked her where she was to go meet up, as planned by my GF. She said, "I am at a café in the Place deTrocadéro".

As you can see, there are something like 7 cafés on the Place de Trocadéro. So I asked her, "What is the name of the café?"

Her answer, "It's the Repas à toute heure."

Which means, "Food served at all hours".

D'oh

The original Chez DiDi http://tr.im/chezdidi
 
DiDi stood for "Discussion en Direct", French for "Live Discussion". At its peak, Chez DiDi had about 2,000 members in France, Canada, Australia, the USA, Belgium, Israel and a few North African countries. For obvious reasons, DiDi is barely relevant today but a few of the original members still meet on a new Laconica version put up a few months ago. The first mention I find on the net is a post I probably placed about it in December of 1997.
 
DiDi began without the need to login but after I woke up to pages of horrible racist posts, I wrote a registration and login system in C with admin tools to mute or delete members. In the 10+ year history of DiDi, the login was never compromised, even though a few people were kicked and desperately wanted revenge.
 
One thing that set DiDi apart was the French language. The French-speaking Canadians were very into the Internet from the beginning, more so even than the French. It was natural then for a lot of Canadian students to join DiDi and chat there much of the day. Once I logged in as admin and found two people having "virtual sex" there, all via text chat.
 
What I was most happy with in the DiDi experience was the "DiDi Party" that was held in Belgium in the late 90's with people coming to attend from France and Belgium of course but also from Israel, Tunisia and Wisconsin. The fact that a little PHP could bring together 20 or so people from these diverse countries was heartening. We also had a few lunches in Paris with people coming from as far off as the US and Australia. Bringing people together was the greatest thing about Chez DiDi, a small social network created in 1996.
 
In the last few days, someone posted on the original Chez DiDi site: "Somone stole your idea! See Twitter.com"

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