"L’internet a changé notre façon de penser, mais s’il doit devenir un changement pour le mieux, nous devons ajouter un troisième type de connaissance à la liste de Johnson : la connaissance qui nous importe.” L’explosion de l’impression a développé une nouvelle discipline du savoir : celle de l’organisation de la connaissance. De la même manière, “il nous faut apprendre à savoir ce qui importe”, explique Paul Saffo en en appelant au développement d’une nouvelle science."
"Les effroyables imposteurs" sur Arte, Hadopi, Loppsi2: la revanche des anti-Internet
Dans la série “Internet est une poubelle qu’il faut contrôler”, Arte diffuse ce mardi soir un nouveau documentaire consacré aux… dangers du web: “Les effroyables imposteurs”. Coïncidence: cette…
"Pour un usage professionnel, l’iPad est loin du compte. Pour des questions d’autonomie, l’iPad, tout comme l’iPhone, ne fait tourner qu’une application à la fois. Le Mac nous avait habitué à pouvoir jongler d’un écran, d’une application à l’autre, là on est collé dans un univers mono-tâche et qui plus est fermé. Car l’iPad est des plus verrouillés. Ses applications devront passer par le filtre de l’AppStore, à la fois cher et impénétrable. Son système ne fait pas fonctionner les logiciels de Microsoft Office ce qui va isoler l’iPad du monde du travail où l’on est constamment obligé d’échanger des fichiers avec des utilisateurs de Windows."
"Zeitgeist is a visual record of what people are currently finding interesting on guardian.co.uk at the moment. While other bits of the site are curated by editors (like the front page, or individual sections) or metadata (like blogs, which display in reverse-chronological order), Zeitgeist is dynamic, powered by the attention of users, which is why we’ve put this into the Community section."
"With the iPad structure, Apple is creating the absolute control for product, delivery and even ownership that can be revoked at will. Apple allows or rejects the application (the container), it can remove all or part of any content from its servers, and it could even remotely delete the stuff you purchased. Imagine: you go to a bookstore, spend $25 on a book that a court of law later finds illicit; a bookstore employee then goes to your place, takes the book from the shelf and leave three dollars bills on your kitchen table. Wouldn’t you be slightly uncomfortable with this?"
"Politico has no plans whatsoever to charge for “anything we currently do.” The current revenue goal includes getting half of the revenues to come from online, with the other half from the print product.
On the issue of paywalls: Politico would like to come up with premium products that “We can and should be paid directly for."
On the issue of paywalls: Politico would like to come up with premium products that “We can and should be paid directly for."
"Praized is the first white-label social local search platform designed specifically for enhanced community conversations around places. It’s local search adapted for the new social real-time Web."
L'ordinateur portable du futur ?
Pranav Mistry a inventé le SixthSense, un ordinateur qui renverse la façon dont nous interagissons avec la réalité et les outils numériques.
Ce jeune prodige du MIT, va retourner en Inde pour développer son projet, qu’il distribuera en open-source.
Regardez bien cette vidéo Ted jusqu’au bout. La démonstration est hallucinante.
Voici l’ordinateur portable du futur, ne ratez pas cette vidéo - Gizmodo -
"Americans have nearly tripled the amount of time they spend at social networking and blog sites such as Facebook and MySpace from a year ago, according to a new report from The Nielsen Company. In August 2009, 17 percent of all time spent on the Internet was at social networking sites, up from 6 percent in August 2008."
"Many Super Bowl viewers like to keep one eye on their computer screens during the game. A study of simultaneous TV and Internet usage found that 12% of Super Bowl viewers last year also spent time on the web, at an average of 24 minutes per user."
L’Italie prévoit de rendre YouTube responsable des contenus de ses utilisateurs
“Nous espérons que l’Italie ne prendra pas une autre voie et qu’elle ne commencera pas à réguler les vidéos que les gens partagent sur internet de la même façon qu’elle régule la télévision”(Google)
"Newspaper Web sites stopped attracting new users, according to Editor & Publisher. According to the Nielsen figures, the number of unique users dropped from 73.2 million to 72.3 between November and October 2009, and plunged to 70.3 million in December."
News Corp. announces big profits and plans for pay walls
As News Corp. announced profits of US$254 million over the three months up to December, Rupert Murdoch said his company is close to implementing online subscription models for all of its newspapers like the Times, the News of the World, and the Sun.
"Indeed, product development should be part of a journalist’s job. Journalists should be working side by side with their business-side colleagues to create and monetize products—and should be evaluated, in part, on their ability to do just that."
"In conversations with people that conduct audience research I’ve come to realize that news and information is not as important to the average reader as it is to folks like you and me (bloggers, journalists, news junkies, etc)."
