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15 years ago @ C/blog - Tous éditeurs ? Les p... · 0 replies · +2 points

Avant Scoble (qui a largement contribué à populariser le mot), le premier « curator » de cette nébuleuse était Chris Anderson, de TED, depuis 2001. L'expression est là pour manifester son humilité face aux conférenciers : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntwuTNYGCo&t=...

15 years ago @ All Facebook - First Facebook SIM Car... · 0 replies · +1 points

Those chips might become the de-facto identity in countries with little institutions, certifying business relations.

15 years ago @ asymco - Last quarter Apple obt... · 0 replies · +1 points

One thing that this curve does is point at how Motorola isn't doing so good.

15 years ago @ asymco - Last quarter Apple obt... · 1 reply · +1 points

Hi —
Great work Horace.
Sorry to interfer with the discussion on strategy, but I've seen pie charts like yours a lot, and they never really made sense to me as is: I would have preferred to see market share on one axis and Ebit margin on another, to see the total Ebit as an area — comparing visually niche vs. mass in one glance.
I couldn't find a software to draw it properly, so I hacked it a bit, using the data I could copy from your charts (rounding errors probably made this quite off): https://docs.google.com/drawings/pub?id=17yq04q3o...
Does this chart make more sense to you? Should I plot it using log-scales to make the red curve more sensible? Would year-to-year comparison on this format make more sense?

15 years ago @ WizMe - Stats et études · 0 replies · +3 points

Ce qui est plus intéressant, c'est que les deux fois, la première catégorie est la même, loin devant — et que c'est ce que Wizme aimerait proposer. ;)

Une autre étude pour répondre à la question : « Et les amis d'amis ? »
Difficile pour les particuliers de répondre (il faudrait définir qui sont mes amis, et qui sont les amis d'amis avec qui j'ai eu l'occasion de discuter) mais il y a des outils en économie comportementale pour mesurer formellement la confiance, et des critères en sociologie pour définir précisément les relations. En combinant les deux, on a une réponse assez claire : on leur fait confiance aussi, un peu moins ; on fait aussi un peu moins confiance aux amis d'amis d'amis — mais au-delà, c'est trop difficile d'imaginer qui ça peut être. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/158870/Papers/Goeree/2007...

15 years ago @ WizMe - wizme dans les médias... · 0 replies · +1 points

Plus généralement, toutes les technologies qui ont du succès rescucite un terme désusité ou négligé : eBay et le commissaire-priseur, Bloglines et l'annonceur public, Google et les documentalistes, Facebook et la gazette, FourSquare et le crieur de salle, etc.
Bon, là il y a un risque de malentendu et de passer pour homophobe — mais on ne change pas le vieux français.

15 years ago @ WizMe - wizme dans les médias... · 1 reply · +1 points

Parler du « problème des faux avis » ça m'a toujours paru un peu lourd comme expression, et imprécis surtout. Je me rappelais qu'il y avait un nom pour désigner les complices des bateleurs de foire et des joueurs de bonneteau, qui se font passer pour des badots puis qui s'exclament que l'affaire est incroyable et achètent visiblement en premier, ou qui gagnent bruyamment… Impossible de mettre la main sur un dictionnaire assez complet — et finalement, le mot m'est revenu : ce sont les « engailleurs ».
http://www.languefrancaise.net/bob/detail.php?id=...

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Employees Challenged T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Zuck has said in interviews that he doesn't have internet at home… ;)
(That was some time ago and you know him better than I do.)

Congrats on the call-out journalism: publishing what you know, and getting the actual info in the comments. I actually like it.

15 years ago @ TechCrunch - Decoding Microsoft's F... · 0 replies · +2 points

There is a lack of added perspective on those numbers (what is actually going down, or threatening) — say: mobile web usage, age and location of Microsoft users, beta-to-paying version conversion for Office 2010. I realise you have to publish fast, but I'm afraid TechCrunch is doing what newspaper have done since 1990, cheapen the quality, hoping to have the traffic remain up like Vile E. Coyote.
Regarding the tone, the most important aspect of it all: this sounds surprisingly defiant and cocky for a company associated with CIOs. I reminded me of extreme-right parties complaining about their lack of coverage in the media… not a good sign, and a risky gambit; not well aligned with the unofficial motto “Change the world or Go home” and more surprisingly for the company famous for imposing bullet-points on us all, not very keen on introducing killer features to justify this success.

16 years ago @ Spark | CBC Radio - Questions and Comments... · 0 replies · +1 points

You can go with all the easy ones: "Is it a bad thing?“ “What do you think of Shirky's response?” and “Could you read what Socrates had to say about writing? Would IRM have detected anything then?” — but this is Carr, so you might have to elevate the debate a bit.

You can be just mean & techie enough and ask if things are better with Freedom by Fred Stutzman, the new Readability browser extension that hides links, the new almost-like paper Retinal screen, oro e-Inks, or whether the mere possibility to Google at any time doesn't help?

That would at least trigger a question around: how much of this is definitive, and what can actually be resolved? In spite of what was said then, writing didn't destroyed classes (YouTube & Khan Academy might); books (codexes) never destroyed the passing of entire flow of ideas as dissertations (his recent issues might be the beginning of the end of that).

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