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C/blog : Tous éditeurs ? Les promesses incertaines de la « curation »

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:31:39 +0000

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=...

All Facebook : First Facebook SIM Card Released

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:02:22 +0000

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

asymco : Last quarter Apple obtained 4% unit share, 22% sales value share and 50% of profit share

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:34:53 +0000

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

asymco : Last quarter Apple obtained 4% unit share, 22% sales value share and 50% of profit share

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:31:28 +0000

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?

WizMe : Stats et études

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:33:02 +0000

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...

WizMe : wizme dans les médias cette semaine : Femme Actuelle et Capital !

Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:26:35 +0000

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.

WizMe : wizme dans les médias cette semaine : Femme Actuelle et Capital !

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:36:50 +0000

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=...

TechCrunch : Employees Challenged To Crack Facebook Security, Succeed (Updated)

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:18:36 +0000

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.

TechCrunch : Decoding Microsoft's Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:25:36 +0000

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.

Spark | CBC Radio : Questions and Comments for Nicholas Carr?

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:31:54 +0000

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).

TechCrunch : Ok Seriously, What Is Yahoo?

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:47:29 +0000

That's what you get from being an assho… a tough reporter with a reputation for not letting anyone go away with anything, however small is your point and big are their responsibilities. When you say you are impressed, people listen; when you are trying to be candid, it plays against you — but you managed to have all the insecurities of Carol B. come out in the spotlight, and that was great. You should have asked Scoble to answer that question. When he says “Wow”, it generally means something in the scale of “You managed to have some code compile.” (which is great, but not TechMeme–top-spot–great) so his enthusiasm is less convincing to VCs, but he's really good with having people let their big picture run wild, and confess to changing strategies. You are the best pair of Good Blogger/Bad Blogger I can think of: Loïc and Loren Feldman are too extreme; and Jodie and Paul Carr appear too different one from another to make it obvious — so please, take this as the best compliment that I can make, but you ain't no nice guy.

TechCrunch : The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand

Fri, 14 May 2010 16:06:37 +0000

I have to agree with NerdTalker: I did dumb things at 19, but this is him talking about his first users… There might still be some code left from that area that gives him the ability to view all our information, and he might never have gotten off with the habit of using it. Blogs tend to lack context, and need updates—many posts on that subject do. But the one that I read included a far more recent quote about multiple identities (that it “lacks integrity”) that would worry anyone bridging opposing culture: closeted gay, street-racing accountant, tech blogger into casual sex, etc. See your fellow every-tech-conference-speaker danah boyd (not you usual bash-first-think-later, flame-war starter) for more examples of that. No, we don't have enough quotes to have a honest opinion of Zuckerberg's stand on privacy, except very vague statement about it being obsolete. And yes, we need a hard-hitting interview on the subject. And, no, I don't doubt you Arrington have done everything humanly possible to get one — but that witch hunt (best pic ever) comes from a lack of information from Zuckerberg, and coming from a person trying to redefine culture, that silence is wrong. I don't think it was worth ruining a billionaire's birthday, and I'm not underestimating the immense difficulty that it is to express his hesitations… but he decided to be the CEO, not by lack of worthy candidate; he has to behave like a leader now, and talk.